Why You Want To Abandon Your Comfort Zone Right Now

Why You Want To Abandon Your Comfort Zone Right Now
By
Bill Cottringer

“The security and safety of a comfort zone are a persistent illusion; but the only real security is in accepting your insecurities as you venture outside of your comfort zone.” ~The author.

Here are six very good reasons to heed this article’s title:

1. The world is changing so quickly today that all comfort zones are being reduced to sinking buoys 100 miles out in the ocean.

2. There is no real security inside a comfort zone because there aren’t any fences, and even if there were, it would be like being in jail.

3. Comfort zones are boring, no matter how hard you try to fool yourself into trying to enjoy them.

4. You have a good opportunity to make the choice to start venturing out of your comfort zone now before it disappears altogether and leaves you without any place to go.

5. You already leave your comfort zone big time everyday in sleep without giving it much thought. No big deal, yet definitely out of your control.

6. I doubt than any one of us could adequately describe our own comfort zone as to where the boundaries are. Plus we often fail to notice periodic expansions that go on without any effort at all.

For many years now, I have been convinced that our main purpose for being here is to figure out the basic rules to be happy and successful. And the best way to do this is to commit to being perpetual learners, growers and improvers. This requires open-mindedness, letting go of your comfort zone and not looking back. Life, with the massive nano-second changes going on all around us, is trying to warn us to change today voluntarily or be changed tomorrow involuntarily. Only one day to make up your mind. Guess which feels better?

Even for people who understand what is going on and how to best adapt to the flux of life today, the resistance to voluntarily abandoning a comfort zone is very strong. That probably isn’t something our conscious minds can drive us to do, because none of this is very rational. We are inclined to stay in our learning, growing and improving comfort zones because we believe we are safe and secure there. But beliefs, being the animated thoughts and feelings we have about the truth of something, are most often not subject to the rules of logic and rationality. And neither is the whole notion of the security of a comfort zone. This is totally all irrational.

The sensible choice to make now is to prepare for the inevitable: What ever got us here, obviously won’t get us there. That is because the world has changed and no longer responds very well to the type of thinking, solutions and efforts we made to problems and conflicts before, to get us all to this point. It is truly a time to change or die and the longer you put off making the choice, the more quickly and painfully it gets made for you.

Get ready to let go of the buoy and start swimming for your life . Close your eyes, hold your breath and take the old Nestea plunge backward into a discomfort zone. Eat desert first, brush your teeth with the opposite hand, take out the trash a day early, enroll in a CC class that has absolutely no relevance in your life, look for on-line jokes if you have been told you are too serious. Re-arrange your daily routine from inside out and back to front. Abandon your comfort zone right now before it disappears for you and I can’t even imagine what kinds of problems that situation might pose.