Personal development is all about trying new and different thing and working on things to get better at them. It could be to get over things that scare you. When you stay in the comfort zone you limit how and what you are. We’ve heard a lot about getting out of our comfort zone. But have you ever thought about why you should? After all, our comfort zone is where we feel in control and safe. It’s where we can predict what will happen and how we will feel. There won’t be any surprises, that we can’t deal with.
So why would you feel compelled or even want to get to the unknown and out of your comfort zone? It is important to do it because getting out of your comfort zone is the key to your personal growth and happiness. Stepping out of that zone helps you build up your self-confidence and the way you view yourself. It can also help to stimulate your thought process and help you to cross new bridges. If you are looking for a path to true happiness. Staying with in your comfort zone all the time will hold back your personal development.
Is being struck in your comfort zone holding you back for living a fulfilled life and growing in our career?
The answer is yes. Being in your comfort zone and staying there is keeping you from realizing and achieving what you desire. Staying safely within your comfort zone keeps you from being challenged and you don’t have to rise to any new occasions. It can and will hold you back. Preventing you from achieving the goals and dreams that you have. Ultimately your comfort zone will drag you down.
Here are 4 ways staying in your comfort zone is holding you back
- Staying in your comfort zone keeps you from growing personally. When you are afraid of something, staying in your comfort zone keeps you from facing that fear. Then you will suffer from it forever or until you finally decide to face it. You stay away from situations that would put you in a position of having to face the fear in order to overcome it.
For example, your fear of public speaking keeps you from taking a job that requires you to speak in front of others, even though it’s a step up on your career ladder. Even if it is something that could lead to better things if you face it. It is easier to stay in your comfort zone and avoid the situation completely. The draw back here is that you will think about it and wonder what could have been.
- You comfort zone is keeping you from being happy. Maybe you struggle with self-confidence and self-esteem issues. These problems can grow unless you take steps outside your comfort zone to begin addressing them. Stepping outside your comfort zone helps you build confidence in your self and see yourself in a better light.
For example, When you are confident and have good self-esteem, you are happier. For example, if you’re not confident in your abilities, you tend to stay in your comfort zone instead of trying something new. This drags down your confidence making you feel less competent and making you unhappy. It can turn into an endless loop that is very difficult to break out of.
- Staying in your comfort zone can make you feel trapped and unhealthy. Often our comfort zone keeps us doing bad habits out of fear. You might want to be more active, run a marathon, feel less aches and pains and go on adventures. But to do any of these things means doing something that is outside your comfort zone.
For example, you want to run a short marathon. It’s always been a dream of yours, but you procrastinate and make excuses why you can’t. You’re too out of shape. You don’t have time. You’re too old. But the real reason is because you are afraid to get out of your comfort zone and begin training with a trainer. As a result, you continue to eat unhealthy, gain weight, lose muscle tone and put your dream on the back burner until eventually, you’re health becomes a problem.
4. You lose part of yourself when life become routine. Comfort feels safe and cozy, warm when you’re in it, but it’s also a double-edged sword. If you stay comfortable for too long then people then to get bored, lazy, content. Then you are primed to become another walking, talking zombie: A spoke on the wheel of life with no meaning other than being in the status quo.
Routine is a part of your comfort zone. It may be satisfying you for now. While you are losing your ability to open up your true self and share your gifts with the world. When you lose that, you lose the ability to create anything meaningful for your life. That not only hurts your life, but those around you, including the rest of the world, which is being neglected by another wasted opportunity to show your true greatness.
When we stay in our comfort zone, we are holding ourselves back from living a life we love, from being happy and from growing. We end up letting our fears rule and settling for mediocrity. You don’t have to get out of your comfort zone all the time. It is a balance that you need to strive to achieve. When you stay there you are just making excuses as to why you do not have to do other things.
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