Monday, October 29, 2012

MY kick A## coach Vicki Garcia great post get umcomfortable


I have news for you.  It may be good or bad news depending on your perspective.  Everything you want, everything you wish to be; lies outside your comfort zone.  If you choose to stay comfortable, you'll never change or improve. 

 

The only way to get what you want and be who you want to be is to utilize tool #9.

Tool #9: Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone


 

Your comfort zone:  everything you currently do, say, or think.  These things are automatic and require no thought.  These are the things you WILL do, the things you WILL NOT DO, the things you think and the things you avoid on a regular basis.

 

Your comfort zone is different from mine.  What I find challenging and scary might lie within your comfort zone.  Something I can do in my sleep, might keep you awake at night with worry.  Our comfort zones are individual just as our fears are.

 

By the way, fear is the gatekeeper of your comfort zone.  The only way to step out of your comfort zone is to get past fear.  This is why we choose to stay right where we are.  The prospect of getting through fear is enough to make us shy away from any new challenge.

 

So why would anyone want to leave the safety of their comfort zone?  Because what you will find in your comfort zone is your current life.  If you want anything that is not a part of your current life or personality, you must leave your comfort zone.  

 

Start by learning to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.  Huh?  This just takes a bit of practice, just like anything else.  Basically, when you begin deliberately and consciously stepping out of your comfort zone, you start to see that nothing bad happens.  It's actually no big deal.  Fear has just been telling you it's a big deal.

 

As you tackle some small things, you learn that you can move on to bigger and bigger things.  These small steps eventually result in an expansion of your comfort zone.  It gets wider and wider and encompasses more.  Eventually, some of the things that used to be scary and uncomfortable, become comfortable.  Eventually, you learn to be comfortable with being uncomfortable because you know what the payoff will be.

 

Start with baby steps.  If you're afraid (uncomfortable with) of public speaking, you take baby steps by speaking up in small groups. If you're uncomfortable letting someone else be in control,you start by letting a trusted friend or family member take charge of something small for you.

 

As you get comfortable with the baby steps you can begin to take larger and larger steps.  This is how you change and grow and end up doing things you never thought possible!

 

Find ways every day to get out of your comfort zone.  Imagine that I am going to ask you what you have done to get out of your comfort zone today.

 

You will be amazed at what you can do!

 

Vicki



My Kick Ass Coach, 1726 Hogar Dr., San Jose, CA 95124, USA

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