What Does Stepping Out Of Your Comfort Zone Really Mean?

What does “comfort zone” mean?

It explains the state of mind of someone who feels at ease and believes that they have what they need and are in control of their environment. These people are the ones who don’t feel much stress and are less anxious because nothing is really keeping them on their toes. 

They usually maintain the same level of performance and believe that life is not that hard and should be easy.  

The people who operate in this level don’t just understand why someone will choose to do things that keep them on their toes and takes their comfort from them.  

They just can’t relate to stepping out of your comfort zone.  

Someone once gave an illustration using a circle. Imagine being in a circle, and you have all the basic things to make you live a content life: You’re not hungry, you have clothes to wear, and a roof over your head. What happens? You feel relaxed and experience low levels of stress and in a way you live life based on your own terms. Right? 

Now imagine you step out of the circle to bring more things into it. The circle will expand and keep expanding as you bring more things into it.  

Bear in mind that you probably thought that since you appear to have all the basic things you need, nothing else will be able to contain this circle because the circle appears to be small and cannot accommodate more.  

And of a truth, you’ve gotten really comfortable with this life. But to your surprise the more you bring more things the more it expands and that made you realize something – the ability of that circle to expand and keep expanding as it accommodates more. 

The same goes for you. When you start stepping out of your comfort zone and you start getting busy with things regardless of  what you believe that you’ve attained, your ability starts expanding and you find yourself doing things that you never thought you could.  

What changed? You got less comfortable. However, not being comfortable will place demands on you. But one thing is for sure, if it’s the right activity you’ve involved yourself in, it won’t leave you empty and without value.  

Also see this. Imagine resuming exercises after a whole year of not going to the gym. What would the experience be like? Your body would ache, feel sore and it would feel like you would not be able to survive it and your bones would probably break or you’ll die.  

But guess what you won’t die. Your body would only feel that way because it has tasted comfort for a long time and it is being stretched to do something it never thought it would do in the last one year.  

 

When the going gets tough

When the going gets tough, remember what’s in it for you. Your ability is enlarged and every step you take makes you stronger and better than you were before.  

Let this be your motivation. Your mindset will be trained to handle both tough times and the seemingly easy moments. The more your ability is enlarged the more value is added to you.  

When you step out of your comfort zone, you’ll surely encounter tough times that would make you think about giving up because you’re being robbed of comfort sometimes.  

But what do you do when you are with all of these thoughts and more? Give up and stay mediocre or stay in the process and  be more valuable? 

Do you give up or stay in the process of being made? Yes, stepping out of your comfort zone subjects you to a process of being made and trained to be capable for more. 

Staying in your comfort zone massages your ego and relaxes your ability to do certain things, especially things you thought you’d never be able to do. 

Remember, that you’ll feel stretched and that’s alright. Emphasis on stretched not stressed!  

Things will get demanding at some point, but you’ll be fine. 

Benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone

There are benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone. It has its rewards, you know? 

• Enlarged capacity to take on more tasks as they come, no matter how difficult they might appear.
• Stretches you and challenges you to do what you what you thought you couldn’t.

• Adds to your experience and empowers you to teach people and put them through basic lessons that would add value to them.
• You develop into a valuable person that cannot be sidelined.
• Reshapes your thought process and trains your thoughts and mindset to be objective. It also makes of you a better thinker and a problem solver.
• Gives you an edge over people who are still in their comfort zone.
• Sets you up for opportunities that are uncommon. This is as a result of the seemingly rigorous trainings you’ve had to pass through.

Conclusively, take great care  of yourself. Don’t neglect your support systems. And most importantly, do not give up. 

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