We all have high goals, dreams and aspirations. However, it can be hard to turn those dreams and goals into a reality. The truth is many of us struggle to reach our goals. The reason we frequently struggle involves our apprehension about stepping out of our comfort zone. Everyone has huge goals and dreams when they are in the shower or driving down the road.
It is easy to come up with those ideas when you really can’t do anything about them. Coming up with an idea is just the beginning of the journey. That is where the comfort zone takes over. How many times after you step out of the shower or get to your destination do you completely forget what those dreams and goals were? Pretty close to every time for almost all of us.
It’s true that nothing ever happens in our comfort zone. It’s the place that keeps us in the “someday” mode of pushing our goals to the side until the time is right, for another day or when you have more skills, money, and time. There is always some reason why. You get into your comfort zone and stay ‘safe’. Then you miss out on what you really want to do. It will always become I will do it someday.
The Struggle is real – Someday Never Happens
Unfortunately, “someday” never happens. Eventually the life you dreamed of becomes a memory, a wish-I-would-have thought. Our fear of trying something different, putting ourselves out there and going for it keeps us from taking action. We let our comfort zone keep us safe.
Your comfort zone keeps you paralyzed from attempting what you desire. You may have goals and dreams but are afraid of the what-if’s that might happen when you do try. Instead, it’s safer to stay where you’re comfortable instead of getting hurt or humiliated by attempting your goal.
Maybe you’re afraid of speaking to a large group of people so you don’t go after the next level in your career, even though it is what you desire. You keep to yourself and stay in your current position instead where you’re comfortable.
Maybe you don’t go after your desire to start your own business because you’re afraid of failing. You stay in a job that you hate instead. Maybe you don’t try new adventures because you have an aversion to meeting new people and looking foolish. So you stay at home in your comfort zone.
5 reasons you stay in your comfort zone might be from
- Fear of the unknown, uncertainty – it is natural to have fear of what you do not know.
- Anxiety over change – Anxiety can take over your life. Once you are in this loop it is very difficult to get out of it
- Negative mindset, pessimistic outlook – always seeing the negative side of thing is exhausting
- Lack of clarity and focus – If you can never find a direction you will never know where to go
- Fear of failing (or succeeding) – This a a huge one. Sometimes the fear of success is worse than the fear of failing. Both keep you in your comfort zone
No matter what it looks like, your comfort zone is keeping you trapped. You stop advancing professionally. You don’t grow and develop personally. You eat the same way, live in the same place, drive the same kind of car, and associate with the same people.
Your comfort zone lets you willingly passing up important opportunities. Because of this, you might lose touch with your relationships, your health may begin to have serious problems, and you end up living a life of mediocrity.
Your unwillingness to take action and step out of your comfort zone for whatever reason directly impacts your goals. If you are afraid to take the next step, and never do, you’ll stay where you’re at. If you always worry what will happen when you go for your goal. You will end up not reaching it. You will fall back into your comfort zone and always wonder what could have happened.
When you see yourself struggling to achieve your goals it’s often because you are stuck in your comfort zone. You are afraid of change, of doing things differently and being someone different.
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