As
a motivational keynote speaker, I often talk about comfort zones.
In fact,
comfort zones represent one of my favorite topics to speak
about.
When you hear or see the term 'comfort zone', one can easily visualize
a very comfortable sofa in your living room. It's another way
of
saying that we can easily get too set in our own usual ways and never
venture into unknown or uncomfortable territory. So a comfort
zone can be viewed as your present way of doing things in any area of
your life.
The result of staying within a present comfort
zone is that another ambitious project that you want to do can get
postponed indefinitely, because it requires you to leave your comfort
zone to acquire greater or new skills. This has happened to
most
of us at some time or another. There is sometimes a fear of
leaving a comfort zone and a common example is with speaking,
which is considered a frightful experience for many people.
The
comfort zone in this case is staying seated in the audience rather than
being up in front as the keynote speaker at center stage.
In
order to achieve our goals, we have to get a little bit uncomfortable
to push beyond those cushy comfort zones. We have to get off
that
comfortable sofa, roll up our sleeves and get to work. This
is
exactly what I did with martial arts. When I started out in
martial arts, there were many techniques and moves that I was not
comfortable doing since they were so new to me. But I slowly
pushed myself to expand my comfort zone each time I trained.
I
didn’t try to learn too much at a time. Instead, I made small
steps to progress steadily. Over time, the techniques became
easier as my comfort zone with them had expanded.
One of the
most interesting things I learned from this entire process with martial
arts is that if you expand one of your own comfort zones in one area of
life, you can then attack all other areas of life with the same
confidence and the same vigor. That's what happened with
me. I expanded my comfort zones in martial arts.
The confidence built up as a result allowed me to improve other areas
of my life. Some examples were career, dating, as well as
other
sports like skiing as I expanded my comfort zones in those areas
too. It was this same confidence that allowed me to become a
motivational keynote speaker, something that I would never have
imagined myself as
twenty years ago. As you start becoming successful, expanding
comfort zones becomes contagious. It’s a good infection to
have.
Just
imagine what you would be able to accomplish in a year’s time, whether
for your health, professional or personal life, if you were to get just
a little bit uncomfortable and expand your comfort zone by just a
little bit at a time. I call this a ten percent comfort zone
expansion in my book, The Life Champion In You.
It's totally astonishing when we realize what can be achieved over time
if we actively work on something every single week. It's sort
of
like making the effort to put away a little bit of money each
week. Over time, a nice chunk of cash will have
accumulated. This similar type of pattern can be realized for
almost any goal you have as long as you expand your comfort zone.
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