How To Grow Your Comfort Zone
Most of us make up stories that we tell ourselves, in order to protect our egos.
Very few of us are honest enough with ourselves to admit the real reasons to ourselves.
When I was a kid me and my friends would always dare each other to do things.
Go ring the doorbell of some crazy ladies house.
Touch some gross looking bug.
Go say something goofy to some other kid we barely knew, usually a girl.
Many times, we’d actually kind of seek out our buddies and get them to dare us to do stuff.
Stuff we wanted to do, but couldn’t really do on our own.
Many times having a group of supporters can help you do things you want to do, but can’t on your own.
But some things in life, the really good things in life, you really do have to do them on your own.
Everything that is worth getting, is going to require some kind of risk. Some kind of action where you aren’t really sure what’s going to happen.
Many people simply aren’t comfortable with this.
But those who achieve greatness, do so because they are comfortable with risk. Comfortable with uncertainty.
Now, this doesn’t meant that you need to go out and become a super hero or anything.
It means just expanding your comfort zone a bit. Just enough to feel like you’ve accomplished something worthwhile at the end of the day.
You’ve moved beyond merely handling what the world gives you (which is plenty most of the time!)
When you go above and beyond what’s required, when you push out just a little bit more, it feels pretty good.
Most people imagine that confronting fear is only when they pick up their sword and face that huge, fire breathing dragon.
But in reality, it’s those small behaviors you do on a daily basis. When you take a risk and smile at somebody.
Or be the person to approach the other person. Or be the person who speaks up on behalf of somebody else when something goes wrong.
You don’t need to wait for a monster to kill or a dragon to slay.
You’ve got opportunities every single day to conquer your fears. One by one. Little by little.
Napoleon Hill wrote decades ago that our most basic fears can hold us back from greatness.
From the wealth and relationships we deserve.
Many of these “base fears” live in our root Chakra. And left alone, they tend to fester and grow.
Taking daily action is a sure way to slowly eliminate them from your life.