Your self-imposed comfort zone is an artificial place, which you have created in your mind, which limits your potential, to a minuscule part of what you are really capable of achieving. Break free from your SELF-IMPOSED comfort zone and stop limiting your achieving any longer, because of your lack of believing. Stop accepting mediocrity, because it is comfortable and begin to experiment and explore a little, break some new ground, try something new today.
The best way to grow and expand, into the type of person you need to be, to achieve your vision, is to commit to a lifetime of on-going and never ending improvement, where you consistently expand and grow, by learning something of value every day. Stay committed to experiment, try a few new things every day, accept that you will make some mistakes, respond to feedback and measure everything you do. It is far better to try to succeed, commit to on-going growth and expansion and encounter countless challenges, than it is to simply accept your circumstances and stay trapped in a life you hate.
As soon as you begin to take action and you show real commitment to continual growth and on-going learning and you remain open to experiment and explore, your days will no longer just blend one into the next, you will have discovered a way to get real meaning and value from every single day. As you gradually make these very necessary changes to the way you do things every day and you make the shift toward on-going and never ending improvement, you will have uncovered the key that will allow you to break out of a life you do not enjoy. You will begin moving toward a future that is filled with passion, fulfilment, meaning and happiness. . If you want the world to change, there is one thing that you have 100 % control over, to make this happen, that thing is YOU. Stop denying that you need to change and accept responsibility for changing yourself.
One of the most liberating moments of your life is the day you realise that “Change is a door that can only be opened from within”. As you begin to change the one thing you have complete control over, namely yourself and you begin the journey to break out of your self-imposed comfort zone. You will see that, by gradually changing all the things about yourself, which are keeping you trapped in an unfulfilling life, you will finally begin the process of reshaping your comfort zone and ultimately the life you get to lead.
This all starts with a shift around the way you view your self-imposed comfort zone and what you believe is possible for you and continues with your commitment to replace unproductive habits, with new success habits that will serve you. You never break bad habits they must be gradually replaced, by new more productive habits and routines. This is achieved by layering new behaviour patterns on top of the old unproductive ones.
Are your Habits Shackling your success?
You can either choose to consciously manage and control your habits as they form, turning them into your success habit set, which will serve your needs and assist you to effortlessly perform the daily activities you need to succeed, or you can leave the formation of your habits to chance, where your habit set will become your greatest limiting factor, keeping you trapped in a life you hate.
Your habits are like nuclear submarines, they run silent and deep, you don’t even know they are there You will never discover them unless you actively search for them and even then, it is possible that they may still remain hidden from you. Have you got any idea, whether your habits are serving you, are they helping or hindering your progress each day?
Have the courage to explore your habits. If they are limiting you or causing you to procrastinate, not take the appropriate daily action, causing you to spin your wheels or in any way limiting you, use the awareness that will flow from this article, to begin changing them for ones that will help you. We are creatures of habit and 96 % of our behaviour is dictated by our habits. Does it not make sense to rather have habits that serve your needs, rather than limiting habits that constrain your daily efforts?
Everything you learn, you either learn from observation, imitation or repetition. This learning over time gets converted into your habits, which either serve you or keep you trapped in a life of mediocrity. Perfect practice makes, permanent. Your habit set starts to develop from offhand remarks, fleeting ideas and vague images, which settle layer upon layer, in your mind. Through repetition, these unimportant, wispy cobwebs keep growing until they turn into thick inflexible cables, which can either shackle and limit you or strengthen your ability to succeed.
“We are what we repeatedly do, excellence is not an act it is a habit.” Aristotle.
Choose to create your new habit set, by design, from this moment forward. Something this important deserves some special attention and a lot of your time. Habits are like comfortable warm beds on a cold winter’s night, they are easy to get into, but really difficult to get out of in the morning. Start today, one small habit at a time and begin to design your perfect success habit set. The effort you put into designing a winning habit set will help you to effortlessly achieve any outcome that is important to you.
Have you ever driven to a familiar destination, arrived there and thought, “How did I get here, what route did I take” and no matter how hard you thought about it, you could not remember? You had safely negotiated dangerous traffic, turned at exactly the right time, stopped when the traffic in front of you did and yet you arrived at your destination safely, unable to remember how you did it. Those are you subconscious habits at work.
A great success habit set will work the same way for you, you will unconsciously carry out all the daily activities necessary to succeed, arriving at success one day, shaking your head, unable to remember how you got there. Choose your habits wisely as they dictate what you do most of the day, they can either slow you down, where you just spin your wheels all day or they can be the fuel that catapults you to success. You get to make your habits over time, but always remember that, it is your habits that will ultimately make you.
Action Idea: Identify a few new success habits or routines, which will assist your progress, toward creating the fulfilling life you want to lead and introduce these into your life as “Your Code Of Personal Achievement” This is a daily commitment that you make with yourself to carry out a number of new routines, which will help you to carry out the daily activities necessary to achieve your goals.
How does it work?
1)Choose between 3 and 5 new productive habits or daily routines, which you introduce into your life. These habits or daily routines must support your goals and help you to keep moving in the direction of your vision.
2)Use you willpower to carry out these tasks every day.
3)Keep using your willpower for about 90 days, to carry out these commitments with your future. After about 90 days, these new routines should be ingrained enough, so that they will have replaced, your unproductive habits, which have kept you trapped in a life you do not enjoy.
These new positive routines when adhered to over time, will become second nature. Your daily routines will serve you by ensuring that you effortlessly take the right actions every day without even thinking about it. This new success habit set, will just be who you are and you will unconsciously take the action necessary to achieve outstanding results. Perfect practice, makes permanent, so commit to learn new success habits, which support your dreams and you will get to live a winning lifestyle that is fulfilling and aligned with your dreams.
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Andrew is an expert and master teacher that speaks and teaches self-leadership, expanded awareness, effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. He guides individuals and business professionals, to identify, prioritise and carry out the right activities, consistently, so that they can maximise their personal effectiveness and deliver their best; on time, every time. All the tools and techniques Andrew teaches; have been tested in the laboratory of his own life and the many successful businesses he has owned and led, over the past 20 years. These strategies have seen Andrew achieve financial independence and reach a point of harmonious balance in all areas of his life. His purpose is to help as many people as possible, achieve similar or better results and to show them how they can realise their full potential, both personal and professionally and to help them live a meaningful life, where they are fulfilled in all areas. http://www.andrewhorton.co.za