Beyond your comfort zone
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Your comfort zone is the place you feel safe, where there is
no sense of risk. To step out of this place can feel scary
and the thought of transforming the status quo can be
overwhelming.
It is also very easy to say that you will make change in
your life when you have lost weight/moved house/have more
money/the children have gone to school, etc, then never
make that change or come up with new excuses not to move
forward.
What risks have you taken in your life? And how have you
changed as a result of moving out of your comfort zone?
For many people who have made significant changes in their
life, they have increased their confidence, then felt the
need to rise to a new challenge!
Going outside of your comfort zone enables you to take
responsiblity for your future, determine what you want
from life and act on it.
If you want to make a change in your life, consider what
you want to do and ask yourself the following questions:
1. What do I want to achieve?
2. What do I need to do to achieve it?
3. When and where do I want it?
4. How will achieving this benefit me?
5. What might stop me achieving this?
6. How can I overcome or remove this?
7. How will I know when I have achieved it?
8. What is the first thing I can do to help me to achieve
it?
Taking control of your life can help you to become aware
of the choices available to you, then enable you to choose
the right path. You may feel out of your depth or scared
to begin with, but each small step will take you towards
your goal. Please let me know how you get on.
