Many believe that the comfort zone is made up of all those pleasant situations that surround us and that make us experience pleasure, the truth is that it is not the case, the comfort zone is made up of all the situations, good and bad, so that we are used to and they describe our routine. This routine prevents us from questioning ourselves, thinking, making decisions.
This is the only comfort we seek: that of inertia in motion, the comfort zone is like that bubble in which you protect yourself so that everything stays the same, even if we stay and think it is unbearable, we are still afraid. and it will easily become a habit.
- The price is very high.
- Not leaving the comfort zone is practically giving up life.
- Growth.
- We are still there.
- Vegetating.
- Over the years and our life is getting more and more impoverished.
- In this article we give you ten good reasons to do something important for yourself: to leave your comfort zone.
It is not a self-help slogan. In fact, everything we discover about ourselves is surprising when we dare to do something out of the ordinary, when we decide to pursue a goal that we think we could not achieve. Every human being has many abilities and skills that are dormant, waiting for the right opportunity to manifest.
In routine the law of minimum effort is imposed, because we need it, only exceptional situations require the best of ourselves, and this is where we discover that we can do much more than we thought we could do.
When you install a single point of view without realizing it, you stop perceiving many angles of reality, perhaps more useful or interesting. Leaving the comfort zone allows you to get closer to new ways to look and see your life.
This results in greater flexibility in your assessment and lifestyle, i. e. you will become more adaptable and greater adaptability will result in a greater ability to solve any difficult situation.
When you find that all you had left was to make the decision and that, in fact, you’re able to do a lot more than you thought, immediately increase the confidence you have in yourself, and so you’ll start to accomplish all this. at first I was afraid.
Insecurity feeds precisely from the non-attempt, if you stop thinking so much and act, sooner or later you will realize that you can actually go far beyond what you imagined and you will feel more appreciated for who you really are.
The greatest fears arise from indecision and inertia. Fear creates its own vicious circle: because you’re afraid, you won’t try to stay where you are. When you don’t try, fear settles in and grows.
Most of the time, not to speak in all cases, the simple act dispels fear, in general fear fades as time goes on, the only difficult thing is to start: if you act, you will notice that many of these fears will disappear. .
Dare is something that gives a sense of adventure and challenge to your life, routines lead to a very flat sensitivity, where everything is predictable and, in this way, often boring, change shakes the emotional world, bringing very pleasant sensations such as the ability to be surprised, curious and eager to discover.
Even great geniuses see their intelligence stagnant when they are not offered permanent stimuli. Intelligence is like a muscle that needs to be exercised to function properly. Routine requires minimal use of your intellectual skills.
The same goes for creativity. Only new situations lead to new responses and new solutions. To leave the comfort zone is to give your creativity and intelligence the opportunity to manifest itself.
When life ceases to be an eternal repetition, it becomes much more interesting and worthy of being lived, if you feel happier about yourself and gradually discover that you are able to do much more than you imagined, surely the appreciation for your life will increase.
In order to have good relationships with others, you must first have a good relationship with yourself. If you’re not comfortable with who you are, with what you’re doing, you won’t appreciate the good things about the people around you. You.
Leaving the comfort zone, discovering yourself, overcoming your fears and feeling happier to live is something that will help improve the relationship with others, you will notice that the conflict will disappear and you will have a greater capacity to see the good of people.
Living here and now is a form of accomplishment. When effort, attention and enthusiasm are focused on the present moment is because this moment is a moment of personal realization, leaving the comfort zone leaves no room for anything more than attending to the present, you will need all your attention and effort to overcome it. this new situation that awaits you.
By adding confidence to your own possibilities, you’ll feel like you’ll need others in a different way, others are a wonderful complement to your being, not your crutches or coats, being independent, sometimes strengthens and gives you more confidence in who you are, makes you feel more strongly the value of freedom.
Images courtesy of Anne Soline, Art Graphik and Kim Ji-Hyuck.