Jay Shetty

How long have you stayed in a job that devalues you?

How long have you tried to make something work when that other person disrespects you?

All of us stay in places that no longer serve us.

And that's how we start to waste life and time.

Now, I want to be really honest about this.

You're not really wasting time because you could be getting the energy to move.

But I want you to be aware of this idea of defaulting.

I want you to be conscious of the belief that you can move.

There's a famous quote that says, if you don't like where you're standing, move, you're not a tree.

I love that quote because often we feel like trees in situations in our lives.

The reason why I'm telling you that is I don't want you to feel like you can't move.

I don't want you to believe that there isn't more out there.

Research shows humans will tolerate dissatisfaction far longer than uncertainty.

So we stay.

in jobs that drain us.

We stay in relationships that shrink us.

We stay in routines that numb us, not because they're good, but because they're known.

Think about that.

Thich Nhat Hanh famously said, we'd rather stay in familiar pain than unfamiliar pain.

The unfamiliarity of uncertainty of changing a job and changing a relationship scares us so much that we stay stuck in situations that are not good for us anymore.