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Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
How Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone Affects Your Life
I believe that you must start stepping out of your comfort zone to experience big growth. I am not alone with this thinking. This quote jumped out at me recently:
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
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Eating the same foods every day, going to work at the same place you’ve always worked or spending your day keeping to yourself at work are all forms of comfort zones. Every individual has a different idea of what they are comfortable with. We do the same routine, eat the same foods, and keep the same people around us in order to feel comfortable. Our comfort zone is like our home. It’s where things are familiar, restful, and normal.
The comfort zone, as defined by the Cambridge Dictionary means “a situation in which you feel comfortable and in which your ability and determination are not being tested.” You feel relaxed and calm in your comfort zone.
I remained in a career that no longer served me and, in fact was causing me to feel unhappy and unfulfilled for at least five years because it was more…