On Comfort Zone: Your Comfort Zone Has More Control Over You Than You
If I were to put up a comfort zone light bulb on everyone's head then I bet it would never blink for most people around the world. Comfort Zone Rules! 95% of people don't do anything radically different or change anything that is out of their comfort zone 90% of the time. Breaking a routine, making tough calls, pushing beyond limits, building networking skills, challenging other person's thoughts, building life long relationships, calling just to say hi to someone unexpected are some of the out of comfort zone things. These things many people hate to do or simply it is not in their top to do list.
No matter how many apps related to time management or other things you put up to change yourself, they won't last long because of the comfort zone. We seldom make the first move to keep in touch with some rare friends or business contacts. It is tough work to beat your personal buddy aka EGO. It is difficult and challenging task to change some part of yourself overnight and expect it to last that way forever. Because it won't. Our everyday routine acts like a software program that is trained to do exactly how we programmed it by doing some things daily.
We are so comfortable in doing our daily stuff that we rarely go out of the bounds of our comfort zone. We will try to hit facebook, twitter, some famous games, news sites, etc. again and again. And simply stare at it. Click, Click and Click. Change TV channels over and over with nothing useful and meaningful.
It is important that we remain explosive and dynamic as a young child full of energy, willing to explore everything around. Once we get what we want, the success factor reins in.
I don't know real answers on how you could challenge yourselves to get out of the comfort zone because I am not you. In this post I made a point not to write on "Top 10 things you should do to get out of comfort zone". Because those are people specific things and it might work for me but might now work for you. I think as long as people acknowledge that they operate within a comfort zone then half the work is done. The rest is about breaking the software and forcing it to do unexpected things. Over a time you will learn how to continuously challenge your status quo.
No matter how many apps related to time management or other things you put up to change yourself, they won't last long because of the comfort zone. We seldom make the first move to keep in touch with some rare friends or business contacts. It is tough work to beat your personal buddy aka EGO. It is difficult and challenging task to change some part of yourself overnight and expect it to last that way forever. Because it won't. Our everyday routine acts like a software program that is trained to do exactly how we programmed it by doing some things daily.
We are so comfortable in doing our daily stuff that we rarely go out of the bounds of our comfort zone. We will try to hit facebook, twitter, some famous games, news sites, etc. again and again. And simply stare at it. Click, Click and Click. Change TV channels over and over with nothing useful and meaningful.
"Your comfort zone has more control over you than you." - via Twitter from Somebody.
It is important that we remain explosive and dynamic as a young child full of energy, willing to explore everything around. Once we get what we want, the success factor reins in.
I don't know real answers on how you could challenge yourselves to get out of the comfort zone because I am not you. In this post I made a point not to write on "Top 10 things you should do to get out of comfort zone". Because those are people specific things and it might work for me but might now work for you. I think as long as people acknowledge that they operate within a comfort zone then half the work is done. The rest is about breaking the software and forcing it to do unexpected things. Over a time you will learn how to continuously challenge your status quo.
