The road to personal growth is through calculated risk-taking and discomfort. In Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, I teach you attitudes that help you bear discomfort and take calculated risks. REBT works because it focuses on getting people out of their comfort zone and encourages them to accept that change does not come easily. Personal growth has to be earned. Humans change through work and practice. Unfortunately, there is no avoiding the effort involved in personal growth and change. In REBT, we give you homework assignments aimed at helping you to see you can bear discomfort. These homework assignments are not just writing self-help sheets to analyze your thinking. REBT self-help worksheet homework ultimately leads to action. I encourage you to see that Benjamin Franklin and Albert Ellis agreed about this. There are no gains without some pain. When the goal is worthwhile, then the pain is worth bearing.
Rational Coping Statement: As I work at my goal and take calculated risks, I will experience discomfort, but inner tension is not unbearable. I will choose to bear this discomfort because my goal is worthwhile. I can and will bear the discomfort. It will not kill me.