Anxious and Immobilized

What’s stopping you from moving ahead?

In Bed by Henri Toulouse-Latrec, 1893 (public domain - Wikipedia)

“I do not find the problems themselves as frightening as the questions they raise concerning our capacity to gather our forces and act.” — John Gardner, 1990

This morning was one of those perfect mornings of the waning summer.

You know the kind — when you’ve slept with the window open all night, and the delicious coolness of the early fall settles in, creating the perfect sleeping conditions.

You stir as the morning arrives, sensing the contrast between the chilly air in the room and the beseeching warmth of your bedclothes.

And you decide to remain there in your cozy refuge — an adult version of a childhood blanket fort — feeling snug and content, seemingly impervious to the harsh realities that await outside of your impenetrable cloth fortress.

If only you could stay there all day.

The temptation to remain just as we are is as natural and inviting as that warm bed on a chilly morning.

But the world requires more of us. We r…