I have found that when it is important for me to focus on a topic, I can’t seem to avoid it coming up in my daily life. There are two topics that keep coming up recently: (1) a different outcome only occurs through different actions, and (2) fear. Recently, my pastor talked about the power of fear: how it makes people comfortable and encourages people to be “masters at mediocrity.” As a result of being scared to fail, people give up before trying. In fact it is human nature to refuse to leave our comfort zone. We do this although we know there is something greater and our current, while comfortable, does not yield the best outcome.