Microcast - Venturing Beyond the Comfort Zone

Feeling like you need a little motivation or a quick tip to get you going. Each week, and between full episodes, I will share short clips on a certain topic. This is a great way to get inspired for the day. Enjoy this quick burst of motivation. Comfort means safety, so we all talk about the comfort zone. Just get out of your comfort zone, right? So this is really just like the illusion of safety that it provides. So think about it this way. So it's a comfort zone. I kind of think about it as, like this circle around us, right, like figuratively, the circle around us and anything that we do within that comfort zone, right, are things like not really like being too loud, not really putting yourself out there, just like being in your little comfy box, right, as you're free from judgment, you're free from criticism. You know, we think that's what it is right and what we're doing is that we are thinking we have this illusion that if we stay within this comfort zone, we'll be just fine, right, we'll be safe away from you know, like failure and anything like that. But in reality, there's a huge downside to this, because never stepping out of that figurative comfort zone, you never grow, right, if you're like even thinking about this in the sense that let's say it is a circle and it's a sphere. Let's say, and it's like a box, like you can't get out of it. How do you grow from that? Right, you can't grow within this sphere. You have to go outside to grow, to be able to expand and, like you know, grow your wings or whatever, however you want to imagine this. So, not stepping out of your comfort zone or being fearful of stepping outside of that safety zone, you're never going to grow, you're never going to figure things out. Like we said, you know, if you don't put it out there, you don't know if you're going to fail and see what you can correct and make it better. That is just going to keep you stuck. So this is a really big one for me, because I'm the type of person who never wants to stand out, never want to make noise. I'm a people pleaser. I don't. I don't like conflict. Like, yeah, once I get comfortable, then I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm a different person, but let's not talk about that. Let's talk about what people see on the outside. Right, okay, okay, how people think of me, but really, in reality, like, I'm that type of person, I don't like conflict and I just don't want to. I don't want to spotlight put on me and I know a lot of you guys can relate to that. It's uncomfortable to be that way, right, but I realized that because I was trying to feel safe, because we all want to feel safe. That's why we don't do certain things right. We don't jump. Most of us don't jump out of you know planes because we're afraid that we're going to die right, so, like, we always try to to be and live within that safety zone. So what I realized was every time that I, you know, with the help of, sometimes, people on the outside, would push me a little bit outside of my comfort zone or would say you know, just try this, a whole new world would open up for me. Living is stepping outside of your comfort zone and pushing the limits on what you feel you're capable of doing. So another belief that you can have instead of comfort means safety. Another belief you can have, you can work on, is growth lives outside of your comfort zone, and I said, life happens and you can enjoy life outside of your comfort zone.