Comfort Zone

Well a New Year is just round the corner and most people are probably ready with fresh plans and bucket loads of motivation to achieve their challenging goals for the next 12 months.

Unfortunately, this spark of desire can be short lived as people gradually fall back into their comfort zones and never fully realize their potential or attain their dreams. Most people like to plan what they are going to do, as its fun and motivating to let your mind dream about changes you want to make with your life. However, without consistent actions on these plans and positive thoughts they will stay nothing more than just dreams?

Today I will write about a few reasons why we fall into our comfort zone and How to Break out Of Your Comfort Zone! After reading my post I hope each one of us would be more aware of not slipping into their comfort zones and how to get out of it.

First, Why Do We Fall Into Our Comfort Zones?

Incorrect feelings and beliefs that you're already doing well.

• Feeling that you're already achieved amazing great results keeps you in your comfort zone if you stop shooting for more.

• Now I'm not saying that admiring and being proud of your achievements is a bad thing, looking back at how far you've come is great motivating factor. But, if doing so takes away your hunger to reach new levels then it is a problem.

• The trick is to never be satisfied, there is always more to achieve. Never believe that you have reached your full potential in terms of size and strength.

Lack of confidence that you can achieve your goals.

• After the fun of dreaming about what you want to achieve you can sometimes be faced with the daunting task of actually trying to make it a reality.

• If you don't believe that you can achieve your goals you've got little chance that you will make them happen.

Also, failing to analyze you're present achievements compared to your goals.

• You need to be fully aware of how you're presently doing. Self-assessment can be hard to do, no one likes to put him or herself down or admit their lack of commitment.

• Being honest with yourself will reap much more rewards than sticking in your comfort zone and pretending that you're doing fine and that someday things will start to click into place.

• You have to make results happen, they never happen by chance or mistake.

Fear of Success.

• I know this sounds weird, but when it comes to breaking your comfort zones your fear of success can be stronger than your fear of failure.

• People can actually sabotage themselves from reaching their full potential because that means actually breaking out of their comfort zone and standing in new, uncharted territory.

• Nelson Mandela talked about fear of success in one of his speeches: 'Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

So, How to Break Out Of Your Comfort Zone?

It’s always hard to step out of your comfort zone, but when you do get to step out of it, you definitely improve yourself.

The first step to break out of your comfort zone is conquering fear.

• We all fear different things and fear is one of the strongest human emotions. But when we overcome those fears, well our comfort zone gets bigger and expands, thus increasing our self-confidence and self-esteem.

• This certainly doesn’t mean jumping in and making blind decisions. To expand your comfort zone you have to take calculated risks, stop procrastinating, and it’ll expand. And as it expands, you will most probably feel better, and get more things done in less time.

Also, it is important to change your mind-set.

• Become an achiever and go-getter, rather than a procrastinator and an excuse maker. Don't view challenges negatively but view them as stepping stones that will propel the quality of your life forward and setting the tone for future achievements.

• When you have something to do, do it, even if you’re not sure what will come out of it, for example, if you have a tough phone call to make, well do it, you’ll feel better after the phone call than before.

Do things you don’t do really often, or haven’t done before.

• You want to gain more knowledge and more experience, so get involved, take whatever courses, hang out with people you respect and that have interesting conversations.

• Remember that if you had bad experiences in the past, chances are the same thing won’t happen again, but you won’t know if you don’t try it again.