Chapter 90: Step out of your “comfort zone”
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once
the unknown and
frightening becomes you new normal.”
Robin Sharma
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward
growth.
Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and
again.”
Abraham Maslow Have you ever heard of the saying, “The magic happens
outside of your comfort zone?”
But…what the heck is the comfort zone? The following metaphor describes it
very well: if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it jumps out! But if you
put it into a pot and start heating up the water gradually, it doesn’t react and dies
by being boiled! And that’s what happens to many people who are trapped in
their comfort zone without even knowing it.
Your comfort zone is the limit of your current experience. It’s what you are used
to doing, thinking or feeling based on your current level of knowledge. It’s
where it’s nice and cozy and where we know most of the time exactly what is
going to happen. It’s where you live life on autopilot. It’s also where change
doesn’t happen. Personal growth and development happen outside of your
comfort zone. So if you want to change jobs, start an enterprise, be creative, get
out of a relationship that has stopped working, you have to step out of your
comfort zone. Unfortunately it’s more comfortable to stay where you are and
your mind is doing everything to keep you there! When I was trapped in a job
that I didn’t like any more I caught myself saying the entire time, “Well it’s not
that bad, it could be worse. Who knows, maybe in another job I would be even
worse off.” And so I continued in a job that no more made sense to me day in
day out. On Monday I was already looking forward to Friday, and when I came
back from my vacation I was already looking to the next one. Can you imagine
that? I should have watched Steve Jobs’ commencement Address at Stanford
some years earlier. (
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