Step Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Contemplate your life and where you’re currently at.  Maybe you’re stuck in your comfort zone, doing the same old thing day in and day out.  Perhaps you’re in the thick of things and going through some really tough times.  Life is meant to have ups and downs.  But, you can’t confine yourself to simply staying in your comfort zone.  You owe it to yourself to fully experience life and step beyond your comfort zone.

What You Owe

Think about what you owe yourself.  Maybe that’s compassion, love, self belief, and support.  It could be that you owe yourself better time management skills to focus on your priorities, your goals, and what truly matters in life.  Perhaps you owe yourself to let go of the past stories and limiting beliefs that are holding you back.  The things that are keeping you within the boundaries you set yourself.  You owe it to yourself to really fully experience all that life has to offer.

Fear

Yet, you won’t step outside your comfort zone just because it’s scary, unknown, or unpredictable.  You might fail, look bad, disappoint someone or even yourself.  These stories and thoughts that constantly play on repeat in your mind about all the reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t do something.  It’s keeping you stuck.  Fear is having you stay in your current routine life without the opportunity to grow.  You’ll never fully experience life and everything that is possible for you.

Future Self

If you continue to let this happen, then you’ll never be able to meet her.  The future version of you.  Your future self who was brave enough to step outside your comfort zone.  The one who took risks, boldly took action, and stopped caring what other people thought.  The one who silenced or at least quieted the inner critic and negative committee who teamed up against you in your mind.  The one who went after your goals and dreams in life to achieve success beyond anything you currently imagine or think is possible.

Life Paths

The truth is, your life has so many paths.  It’s up to you to decide which direction to go.  You’re currently walking on a dirt road that is worn out.  It’s neatly carved out, flat, and even.  It’s obvious, safe, and you’re taking a leisurely stroll through life.  But, what about the uphill battles, the adventure of carving out your own path, and the future that lies on the other side of taking an unknown path?  Walking the same path will only have you traveling in circles living a life of what already know.  There is no opportunity to learn or grow through a difficulty or challenge.  Only when tragedy strikes and you’re forced to do something different than what is known will you ever feel that it is absolutely necessary to step outside your comfort zone.  Even then you’ll question if it’s better just to remain where you currently are.

Path Less Traveled

The path of life is head of you.  Take the one well traveled where you know what to expect or take the one less traveled and see where you end up.  Life is meant to be lived!  You’re meant to explore, succeed, fail, and learn through trial and error.  It’s not a perfectly straight line journey.  Force yourself to step outside your comfort zone today.  Choose to do something different.  Stop waiting until tragedy hits or your current comfort zone becomes so bad that the fear of doing something different is the less scary.  Take the road less traveled so that you can break free of your comfort zone.  You owe to yourself and your life to fully experience it.

It will always be scary doing something you’ve never done before.  But, going from a novice to an expert allows you to expand your comfort zone.  It challenges you in ways you never thought possible.  You’re able to learn, grow, and elevate your life to a whole new level.  Avoid letting fear hold you back from the incredible life that’s meant to be yours.  You’re given one life.  Do not squander it.  You owe it to yourself to see what’s out there and waiting for you.  Anything is possible and it’s just a step beyond your comfort zone.