Comfort Zone, it is all about you mind game. Your brain is not ready for anything and want’s no change to happen. This is just because your needs to met, you don’t have to worry about anything thus no stress and still you are surviving happily. So, you feel why to waste energy when I have everything running stable. We have come across many such people like this and no doubt if you introspect, you can be one of them. Well, I could be one of them as well.
Each one of us have our own comfort Zone. It is mostly connected to our Psychological, Emotional, Behavioral need which construct and defines the routine of our daily life. Staying in comfort zone may though sound healthy to all of us but it is now a necessity to get out of it to cope up with the happening transitions then grow and transform ourselves.
If we let ourselves to be in comfort zone we may be missing out a lot on gaining new Experiences, Challenges, Learnings, etc and this will cause difficulties down the line on sudden transitions and transformations.
Let us learn some benefits and details on why you should get out of your Comfort Zone.
1. Keeps you active.
Getting out of your comfort zone lets you to do additional things in your life. This will exercise your brain and body and trains them to function effectively in desperate situations. You will not be feeling tired often and will challenge yourself to push you deep to utilize the untapped Knowledge and Potentials you have. This will also erase the fear of failure and keep you motivated.
2. Helps to Build Relation.
Staying in your comfort zone lets you to have an inferiority feeling which will make you to stay away from people because you have the fear of been compared, sharing negativity and so on. You think that staying isolated is the best way to stay away from the world and be happy. But, that isn’t the best way to overcome your fears. Meeting new people lets you to have new experiences and to engage in activities which you haven’t known before. When you start mixing with people you learn to know the people well. You will gain different people experiences which will broaden your thinking and through this you can make a choice for all sorts of possibilities which you cannot think of.
Meanwhile, you will also be able to explore different culture, people practices and so on. You will be able to make new friends and broaden your network.
3. Help you to accept the sudden change and adapt to it.
The very best lesson of instability we learned is from the recent Covid 19 Pandemic. While we were in a comfort zone with the same life day in and out, something went terrible and things were upside down. The entire world was in despair.
If your keep yourself busy your mind is already trained and ready to deal with sudden changes. We become strong enough to cope up and fight against any such situations which lets us to stay motivated and keep going. You never know what can go wrong, there is no written future and in such sudden changes, Helping out yourself is the best way to deal with any situations.
4. Discover your potentials.
It is to understand that we humans are not made to do one single thing and keep doing it for rest of the life. We all have goals in our life and if we really want to make it soon we need to come out of our comfort zone and break the lazy routine. It helps for self-development in different ways:
a. Learn and Grow:
By learning more, we are able to gain opportunities to grow by experiences. We do this by trying new things or do things in new ways.
b. Become Creative:
When you become more familiar about anything, you have the opportunity to stretch yourself and be more creative in your methods.
c. Builds Self Confidence:
When you do things for a number of times, you become an expert over this and by doing many such things you will keep building confidence in you.
d. Develop more understanding:
Getting out from comfort zone you keep doing many things that build you down the line. By this you are able to judge what is right and wrong and this helps you to make the right decisions in your life. When you look at the others you will realize how far you have come from the point you started.
5. You Discover the Real World.
By getting out from your comfort zone you keep trying to do many things. Here your life starts getting interesting. You start exploring new things and getting to know the best of every single thing. Your learnings are expanding and taking risk to grow. Things start to look like an Adventure and obstacles as an opportunities for something new.
You will also be able to discover what you passion is. It will help you to live the life you always wanted but never knew.
So let us know what you can do differently to get out of Comfort Zone.
- Drive a different way to your work and if closely try to walk. Get up little early and take some time to explore your vicinity while on the way to work.
- Every time you have to take the stairs, implement a new way to make it. It could be as silly as doing lunges or squats. It will exercise you simultaneously.
- If you have some extra time at your work, ask for a project that is challenging or help somebody in completing the project they are working on.
- Open conversation with colleagues with whom you don’t normally interact. Understand the way they think.
- Spare some time to take a class on art or music that will entertain you in free time. Join some group who have similar interest.
- Start reading books and share what you have learned in any social media platform (Youtube, Instagram, facebook, etc).
While there are countless options you can choose to start making a change, it is certainly a need for the each of us to get out of the comfort zone, specially the youths of current generation. We have the real time Tools and Gadgets required but we put them to no use.
Utilizing the true potential within you is something that will build you and this will happen only if you understand why you should get out of your comfort zone.
Remember, “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”.
