How can I grow past my comfort zone?
We all have a comfort zone and it depends on what you’ve been doing in the past, the things that you are used to do.
If you want to get something different in life, you’re obviously going to have to do something different to get a different result.
The most important thing, and you probably have heard this before, is that you have to have a ‘reason why’, but probably what you didn’t know is that the reason why sometimes comes from two kinds of sources. Let’s just put it this way : sometimes it’s running away from something and sometimes it’s running towards something.
Sometimes in life we’re just running away from a place or a time or something that we don’t like. Some people say “I don’t like the job that I’m doing and that’s why I need to get out of it.” Sometimes people say, “I feel like I don’t have enough money so I need to create income somewhere else or doing something else.” Or sometimes you say, “I don’t like the lifestyle that I have and I need to change it.” If you’re going to change all that, obviously you need to do something different and you need to get out of that comfort zone.
This is where it all comes from. It comes from a place where you want to change the situation that you have. The other way that you can get motivated and you need to be aware of, is that sometimes it comes from inspiration. Inspiration could be anything like “I want to get a new car”, and you have that mental image of that new car.
Sometimes it’s about that trip that you want to do around the world with your family, and that’s the inspiration that gets you to move out of that comfort zone so you achieve the goal.
That goal could be anything from a new car or travelling around the world or whatever it is. Maybe you want to lose some weight and you want to become that picture perfect kind of model that you see sometimes in magazines, on TV or somewhere else.
The most important thing with your reason why is that you need to be aware that whether it comes from desperation (a place where you don’t like where you’re at) or it comes from inspiration (that means the place that you want to be, who you want to become), this is the most important thing. Once you’re in a situation when you need to get out of your comfort zone to get results, you need to remember that reason why. Whether you know if it comes from desperation or inspiration it doesn’t really matter, as long as you know that you have that reason why.
So just remember the reason why is the thing that will move you out of your comfort zone. It will move you past your comfort zone.
