Flee the comfort zone
THE comfort zone is a dangerous place. Entitlements are a deadly disease. Many people want to be great so long as they can remain comfortable, sheltered, pampered and certain. The comfort zone is the first option for most people. Flee it.
The comfort zone is cosy, warm and seductive. It offers no challenge, no pain, no pressure and no panic. In a comfort zone, you do not need to fear because everything is predictable and looks like the past. However, the sad reality is that staying in the comfort zone is the worst decision you can ever make. Flee the comfort zone.
To be great, you have to be willing to break out of your shell, challenge your limits and do what you have never done before. To grow, you have to start punching above your weight and lifting some heavy stuff. Stop parking on baby things and attitudes. Flee the comfort zone.
Life is an obstacle course, where you face experience, address challenges, solve problems and manage issues. Each step up the issues makes you bigger, better, wiser and sharper. There is no challenge which you face that will leave you at the same place.
The world was built to develop character, strengthen your spirit and sharpen your focus. This is seldom done by comfortable inaction. The setbacks and griefs that you endure help you in your onward march.
To change your life, you have to adjust your life orientation. The thoughts you have determine the life you live. It takes effort and deliberate action to change your thinking. You can never be great while lounging in a comfort zone. When you stretch to a new level, you go to another stage. You will not grow until you start stretching, and mind shifting. The old thinking that held you back will keep you stuck until you make critical mind frame changes.
Change your thinking from immediate gratification, tension-relieving thinking to long-term, delayed gratification and destiny-building thinking. Change your mind from consumption to construction thinking. You will not build or store for the long term so long as you are thinking about how much you can eat and with whom. So long as you are obsessed with your comfort and eating, you will not think strategically. Instead of security thinking, engage in opportunity thinking.
Instead of just thinking of what you can get, think about what you can give and what difference you can make. The size of your thinking determines the quality of your actions. Think of every way to break out of your comfort zone. Growth is an imperative. Momentum is a must.
If you stay where you are, you will simply grow bitter, instead of being better. Life was designed for you to change and grow and not to just maintain the status quo. Getting things to be what they used to be is a myth.
Keeping things as they are is self-deception. Change does not guarantee any improvement. However, without change, there cannot be any improvement.
Consider the tortoise. It is when it sticks its head out of its shell that is starts making progress. You will not make progress when you are obsessed with your ego, camping in the same place, doing and thinking about the same things you have always thought about. Get out of the comfort zone. It is time to see further, stretch your thinking and do great things.
You will never grow doing what you have always done; being where you have always been and knowing what you have always known. Expand your horizons, learn and grow.
You will never maximise your potential parked in one place. Travel to new areas. Seek out different experiences. Travel opens your mind and gives you new perspectives. Be hungry to learn. Take photographs and notes. Visit bookshops, museums and art exhibitions in your community and in other places where you travel. The world is not the same everywhere. Places are pregnant with history, energy and lessons.
Move out of your comfort zone and wrestle with your ignorance until greatness beams forth. Read new genres of literature. Try out new applications and software. Attend seminars in areas you feel deficient in. Keep moving your boundaries and refuse to be hemmed in by what you knew in the past. Past success is not a guarantee for future success. Do not be discouraged as you battle ignorance in a particular area.
Set big and inspiring goals that get you out of your comfort zone. Even if you may not know how you will reach the goals, just set them and use these as your motivation for learning and moving out of your comfort zone. You can tell that you have plateaued when you are now content with what you knew in the past and you are no longer aggressively seeking to elevate learning experiences.
Set learning goals and carry them into everything you do. Keep a learning diary or journal. Jot down insights that you get. Unless you are motivated to learn, you will always have the luxury to say you do not like reading, and whatever you learnt was adequate.
Find a learning style that suits you and works for you. If you are a visual learner, seek out models, pictures, presentations and videos; undertake learning visits; and travel to see other visual elements that will inspire and satisfy your learning hunger. If you are an auditory learner, get audiobooks and podcasts, and listen, as well as take notes. Tune your ears into learning receptacles. If you are tactile learner, get into active learning. Play a learning game. Purchase learning tools. You are an action learner, so get into action.
Learning is a habit of great people and it gets you out of your comfort zone. Be obsessed with learning. Learning is not passive and neither is it for passive people who have expired from life and want to live within the bounds of comfort.
Committed to your greatness.