What Happens When We Stay Stuck In Our Comfort Zone? Stuck in your comfort zone? Before we move into looking at tips and ideas about getting out of your comfort zone, or expanding it into the realm of possibility, it’s important that we take a closer look at what happens when we stay stuck…
There’s an interesting connection between personal growth and self-confidence that I want to point out. We all go through periods in our lives where our self-esteem and our self-confidence are low. It’s not a good feeling isn’t it? It comes as no surprise that hundreds, if not thousands of books and papers have been written…
Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone Let’s start with some bad news. We can’t actually step out of our comfort zone. As soon as you do something unexpected and scary, it becomes part of what you’re starting to get comfortable with. The good news is that you can stretch it as far as you’d…
Stretching Your Comfort Zone – Why It Is Important To Stretch Yourself And Grow If we want our bodies to work well, we must do some stretching when we get up in the morning. Otherwise, after time, we might end up stuck in bed and unable to move. I don’t like the feeling of…
You’ve heard the expressions “within the realm of possibility” and “beyond the realm of possibility”. The definition is that something is either possible or impossible depending on whether it’s within or beyond. The realm of possibility then is something we can see changing or happening. In our context it’s the area between our comfort zone…
Stepping out of your comfort zone isn’t easy. But there’s good news. You don’t have to go way out of it to benefit from it. Making it to the edges of your comfort zone and stretching it just a bit or stepping out just over the edges or outer limits is all it takes. I…
Here’s the problem with living only within your comfort zone. Not only is it boring but you’re potentially missing out on fun new stuff and it severely limits you in what you can do. Being stuck with what you can do and where you feel safe, keeps you from reaching your full potential. We have…
We spend a lot of our life living within our comfort zone. We’re creatures of habit and we like to avoid anything that causes us pain, poses a potential risk, or makes us uncomfortable. We even have sayings about the virtue of staying solidly within our comfort zone like “why fix it if it isn’t…
It’s that time again…time for New Year Resolutions. Have you made any? Do you make the usual resolutions that most people make…to lose weight, get in better shape, get more exercise, read more, spend less, get more involved with other people…?? And how do you do with your resolutions? Do you keep them? For how…
Incorporate Health Routines – Never forget the importance of health routines. Keeping fit is your responsibility and it doesn’t have to be sixty hours of cardio or 100 pounds of weightlifting. A simple power walk will suffice, but do it daily and stick to it. Pay Attention to What You Eat – You only…