The perfect time to get out of our comfort zone comes when we least expect it, when this happens, we only need two things: the courage and conviction that we deserve better, is a vow of faith, a step that must be taken with a firm mind and a convinced heart, a change that will finally bring us closer to the person we really want to be.
One thing we all know is the phrase “Get out of your comfort zone?”has taken root in our language. She lives in almost every scenario, medium and everyday, and the fever that has arisen around the concept?Is personal growth so great that some ideas need to be clarified.
- First of all.
- We could say that today we are almost constantly driven by change.
- Because change itself is positive and enriching.
- Which helps us to recycle perspectives.
- Integrate new energies.
- Resources and be more receptive to all those opportunities that we have on our horizons and that sometimes.
- Out of indecision.
- Fear or shyness.
- We dare not achieve it.
Advertising, for example, constantly invites us to buy new products. This encourages us to leave the company or brand as usual for a new one, for a better one. On another occasion, when we talk to someone about “I don’t know what yes, my boyfriend wants us to live together,” there will never be anyone who says the classic phrase: “Go play, it’s time to get out of your comfort zone. “
We must be very clear that this should not be interpreted lightly. The original theory of the comfort zone had fundamental and essential principles that we can forget. Each of us must have an adequate degree of self-knowledge to know when and how to take this step. going forward, because the last thing we want is for it to lead us to a free fall, so do we have to know the perfect moment, the perfect moment?
We were sold the classic idea that magical things grow out of the comfort zone, well, this phrase has important points: magic is within everyone, and that well-being comes from where we identify, we feel happy, satisfied. It will be necessary to climb the walls of this everyday and comfortable environment around us to find something new, something that corresponds to what we really need.
Other times, however, this comfortable space brings us exactly what we need, no more or less, and this is how some people build their happiness, so, and to understand this term a little more, it will be of great help to find its origin, to know where this concept comes from.
It was in the 1980s, when a group of scientists sought the temperature range in which humans can work in ideal conditions without feeling cold or hot, it was established that there was a thermal comfort zone between 20 and 24 hours.
Later, in 1991, was a business management book published?Danger in the comfort zone? Where its author, Judith M. Mr. Bardwick, did you use this scientific term in the field of personal growth, defining it as the state where people live at a level?0? Anxiety.
Now, what happens when you live without anxiety?, the person does not innovate, do not believe, has no stimuli. It is a life where the level of control is so great that nothing new is generated, nothing original.
In 2009, psychologist Robert Yerkes defined the concept a little more, referring to the “ideal income zone”, which is an area where through a little stress and anxiety we improve our performance. This small degree of excitement is what drives us to look for new options, have innovative and creative thoughts to feel really satisfied, but always with a single sense of control.
That is why we must remember an important detail: these jumps, without parachutes and with our eyes closed, are not always positive, because sometimes when we leave this comfort zone very quickly, we go directly to the danger zone, where we lose control of the reins and we have overcome that of the ideal income, where we should all start.
The phrase: go out and try your luck, get out of your comfort zone?It is almost a neoliberal cry that pushes us out of our known scenarios to convince us that we will succeed, however, many times we are forced to do so not only to succeed. , but also to survive. Young people who leave home to work abroad, for example, do not always do so because they want to “experiment”. Sometimes it is a forced exile in search of better life chances.
The person who abandons his spouse after 10 or 20 years of coexistence does so not to succeed, but to be happy again, to regain his dignity and himself, so it must be taken into account that in addition to the voices of these gurus that Dinos that we are too in our comfort zones, we must all remember that changes are never made lightly Happen because there are concrete needs , clear and objective: dissatisfaction, misery, existential emptiness, apathy, discomfort?
So, and finally, just keep that in mind? Change by change?It is not a fad, no one has to come from outside to tell us that we have to make this leap, make this change, we can only open the locks of the comfort zone to look for what we need, we will only choose when and at what time: and it will be when we feel stronger and we can break the bonds of fear.
Images courtesy of Anne Soline.