When things are going great, why capitalize on momentum? What is it in a person that causes them to desire anything above mediocrity? Comfort can be the bane of change; ‘necessity is the mother of invention.’ Comfort: good, change…well, if you mean risk and the unknown, change is bad. Comfort is good, retirement even better; don’t rock the boat. Hey, I’ve achieved my equilibrium. But difficulty, deprivation and want spur us to action or plunge us into despair. Change, even forced change (which it usually is) can be the best thing to occur.
When all seams bleak lift up your gaze and look for those possibilities. This could be the impetus for a better vocation or a new direction that would never have been considered otherwise. The same amount of energy being pessimistic and defeated can be redirected looking for those possibilities. It is our nature to grovel in the sewer; one can distinguish themselves by continuing to Ask, Seek and Knock. Few do it so the odds are in your favor that you will distinguish yourself and find success. If you are going down, go down fighting.
It has been reported that there are those who have lost their home, sold their belongings and ended up feeling FREE, unencumbered to pursue their dreams. When you have nothing to lose and EVERYTHING to gain you will tend to be a little more adventuresome. Life is always limited by your thinking/perceptions. Crossing the street or the country is always one step at a time.