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toll booth analogy

Introduction

I love the term “toll booth,” because it’s so simple and easy to understand. It’s such a great analogy for life. If you’re living your life at a high level of success, then every day is like a beautiful journey through the mountains on an open road with no toll booths in sight—but if you’re not making progress in life, then everyday is like driving along an endless highway full of toll booths blocking your path.

In this blog post, I’m going to share how we can use this analogy to help us make positive changes in our lives by overcoming obstacles that prevent us from achieving success.”

Tollbooth Analogy

The tollbooth is the barrier that stops you from moving forward, and the tollbooth keeper is the voice in your head that holds you back.

You can see how this applies to life. You need to get to that next level of success, but there’s a mental block stopping you from getting there—it’s like having a physical barrier in front of you. Most people are already aware of this inner voice holding us back from achieving our goals, but if we’re honest with ourselves, it goes much deeper than just fear: It’s fear of failure. And when we think about it this way—as an inner voice telling us not to try because we might fail—we can see how silly it really sounds! Why would anyone listen to a voice warning them against taking action?

What does the tollbooth represent ?

Now, let’s apply the tollbooth analogy to see what it means.

• The safety of the tollbooth represents your comfort zone. You’re familiar with this environment, it feels safe and predictable. There are no surprises here — you know exactly what to expect when you enter the tollbooth; however, this place is also known as a “rut.”

• The destination beyond the tollbooth represents your dream or goal. It’s something you want in life but aren’t sure how to get there yet—it could be anything from buying that fancy purse or getting a promotion at work (or even finishing your novel).

• The road between the two locations represents fear: fear of failure or success, fear of change…whatever holds us back from actually taking action toward our goals and dreams!

a. Your comfort zone

Your comfort zone is where you feel safe and secure. You know what to expect there, because it’s familiar. You have rules and regulations that apply strictly to everyone else, but not to you—you can do whatever you want in your own little world. The problem with staying in your comfort zone is that if you keep doing the same things over and over again, nothing will ever change for you. You won’t grow as a person; your life will be stagnant forever.

If your goal is happiness, then it’s important that you get out of this zone as soon as possible and try new things—not just so that other people can see how much courage or bravery they don’t possess; but also so that when (and if) the time comes for something big, something worthy of being scared about happens—like losing a job or having an argument with someone close to them–they aren’t paralyzed by fear because they’ve never left their safe place before

b. Your dream

Your dream is your motivation. It’s what you want to achieve, be, and do. Your dream is your vision for the future: what you see yourself doing when you think of success.

Your dreams can be big or small—they can include things like starting a company, running for president, or finding true love—but no matter their scope or scale, they’re all important steps on your path toward becoming who you want to be (and ultimately achieving success).

c. Your fear

On the other hand, you can choose to take a risk. You can try something new, even if it feels uncomfortable at first. If you push yourself to grow and learn, who knows what might happen? Maybe someone will notice your work and offer to hire you as an artist or writer! Or maybe your writing will inspire others and make them feel less alone in their struggles with mental illness or addiction. Or maybe – just maybe – your art will lead someone else through their own struggles with mental health issues, or help them get through the rough days of addiction recovery.

Regardless of what happens next, taking risks is always worth it because when we take risks we are putting ourselves out there for others to see; we are letting our light shine brighter than ever before; and most importantly: We are growing up into who we were meant to be from day one.

The tollbooth keeper is the _____

• The tollbooth keeper is the voice inside your head that tells you what you can and cannot do. It’s often not a very nice voice, and it may even be mean. But it’s there. And that’s okay! As long as the voice is telling you the truth about yourself or your life, then there’s no reason to be afraid of it. If the tollbooth keeper tells you something about yourself that isn’t true—if it throws out lies about who you are or what is possible for your life—then by all means take action to change those lies into truth! (And we’ll get into how exactly to do this in a minute.)

a. Fear of failure

A fear of failure is often a fear of not being good enough. It’s the fear of not achieving your goals, or not being accepted by others.

The toll booth analogy is an easy way to understand this. If you don’t have any money, the toll booth will stop you and make you feel bad about yourself. This is what happens when we don’t meet our own expectations for success!

The toll booth can also show up at work and in relationships if we don’t feel valued or appreciated enough for our contributions there. We then express our feelings through anger, frustration and resentment towards those around us (and sometimes even ourselves!).

b. Fear of change

Fear of change is a common problem for people who want to be more productive, but lack the motivation to make it happen. Everyone gets paralyzed by fear at some point, and this can be an especially big issue for those who want to start working on their productivity.

The good news is that there are ways you can overcome your fear of change—and they’re all pretty easy! Here are some simple steps you can take in order to get started:* Take small steps.* Start with something small and manageable.* Set goals.* Practice daily tasks

c. Your inner voice

• Your inner voice

The more you listen to your inner voice, the more it will grow. Your subconscious mind is a great resource for figuring out what’s going on with you and what to do about it. It can be an ally as well as a foe. The same is true for intuition. This phenomenon is often described as being like having two voices in your brain: one that’s positive and encouraging (the “inner voice”), and another that’s negative and critical (the “inner critic”). You can think of these two voices in terms of conscious vs unconscious processes – they both operate unconsciously but one is generally more helpful than the other.

If you never step out of your comfort zone, what happens?

I love a good analogy. One of my favorite ones is comparing life to a tollbooth. If you never step out of your comfort zone, what happens? You’ll never achieve your dreams, you’ll never change, and you’ll never grow. And ultimately, you’ll be extremely unhappy.

a. Hatred from others

You might be familiar with the “toll booth” analogy, but if you’re not, here it is:

• The toll booth represents the mind. When you go to the toll booth, you pay money to get through to the other side of your mind and into your heart (your heart is a good place where there are all kinds of good feelings).

• The toll collector represents your ego. Your ego wants you to feel bad about yourself so that it can get its power from that, but when someone leaves an abusive relationship they don’t want their abuser getting their energy or validation in any way because they know how harmful that is for them. So they have this intense hatred towards their abuser even though their abuser has done nothing wrong except harm them in some way and make them feel bad about themselves. They hate themselves because of this person’s abuse so much!

b. Failure to evolve

You’ll be stuck in the past.

You’ll never change. You’ll be stuck in the same place, doing the same old thing for years to come. You won’t learn anything new or improve yourself at all; you’ll just keep doing what you’ve always done and expect different results, like a broken record player playing the same song over and over again until it eventually breaks down completely because it can’t evolve with technology anymore.

c. You will die with regrets

You will die with regrets.

You will never know what you could have achieved, never see the world as it really is, and never discover who you truly are. You’ll be forever trapped in your comfort zone, following your conventional ideas of what’s right or wrong. You won’t take that leap of faith into the unknown because you’re afraid to fail or make yourself uncomfortable. And then one day, when it’s too late to change anything—when all hope has been lost—you’ll look back on your life and wish that things had turned out differently for you.

Conclusion

If you are able to step out of your comfort zone and take risks, then you will not only find success but also happiness. However, if you stay in your comfort zone, then there is a chance that you will become bitter and resentful about life. It’s time for us all to take this lesson from our tollbooth experience!