Living Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Have you ever felt stuck, and wondered about the possibility of living beyond your comfort zone as a solution?

 How does that make you feel?

Afraid?

Irresponsible?

Excited?

This week I have three pieces to challenge and encourage you.

I pray they will breathe life, strength, and courage into your soul!

Apathetic Living and the Edges of Reality. Joel Runyan of Impossible HQ shares about making sure your life story is a good one.

He writes:

Good stories are told on the edges of reality, and impossible is right on the edge of reality, if not off the map completely. They’re just far enough out there to be a little unbelievable. That’s why we enjoy them. Most possible things in life are in dead-center in reality – that’s why most people settle for the possible – it’s easier. That’s also why a lot of people are unhappy, bored, or just feel like they’re stuck.

I used to be one of those people. It’s not that they’re bad people, it’s just that nobody’s told them they don’t have to be stuck.

You don’t have to settle for the possible things just because other people tell you that you have to. You don’t have to settle for only the possible things just because you tell yourself you have to.

If you don’t like your story, you can change it. You can write yourself a new one. One where you do things worth writing about. Things on the edge of reality. Things that are impossible.

Be sure to follow the link to read the entire piece!

Why Frequent Trips Outside Your Comfort Zone Are So Important. Micheal Hyatt writes about taking a big, scary leap outside your comfort zone.

He shares about a conference experience:

Earlier this year, Gail and I attended Tony Robbins’ Life & Wealth Mastery event in Fiji. On the very first morning, with less than an hour of instruction, we were asked to climb a thirty-foot pole and then stand on top of it.

For all intents and purposes, Michael Hyatt was standing atop a telephone pole, thirty feet high. For reference, that’s around the same height as a two-story house.

He’s not standing on the solid roof, either, but on a swaying surface probably about 18″ across.

Gulp.

Once he made it to the top, he still had to jump ten feet to a trapeze, which he missed.

No worries, as he was wearing a safety harness.

He came to this conclusion:

This is where the growth happens.

This is where the solutions are.

This is where fulfillment resides.

In short, the really important stuff happens outside your comfort zone.

Yet another vote for taking those steps beyond the everyday ordinary!

The importance of stretching your comfort zone. Here is my contribution in support of pushing the boundaries of your comfort zone:

One final key to successfully and regularly moving out of your comfort zone is to practice getting comfortable with discomfort.

When your diet contains regular small daily doses of comfort zone expansion, you will become more accustomed to the discomfort, i.e., change will become easier.

The benefits may surprise you. Here are a few:

Becoming a happier, more interesting, capable person

Nurturing a more patient and flexible mind-set, which helps you be a better spouse

Developing more resiliency, since you will no doubt fail at some changes, yet you survive

I am not suggesting that you sell everything and travel to Spain to run with the bulls.

I am strongly encouraging you to start right where you are and do one thing this week to start living beyond your comfort zone.

Pick something from my list or choose something that’s been waiting patiently on yours!

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.  ~Will Rogers


Question: What one thing will you do this week to start living beyond your comfort zone?

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