Ways to leave your comfort zone

Break out of old, comfortable routines by doing some things differently. For example, turn off your smartphone while having dinner.
Expand your professional skillset.
Try a new diet.
Take workouts to the next level.
Get creative - anything from writing to building a business.
Challenge your beliefs. Visit new places, read varied book genres, diversify who you talk to.
Practice honesty, whether in a private journal or talking to someone close to how you feel.

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Understanding the comfort zone

The Yerkes–Dodson Law (1907) linked anxiety to performance. In response to anxiety-provoking stimuli, the options are either fight (meet the challenge), flight (run away/hide), or freeze (become paralyzed).

When we have

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Difficulty in stepping out of our comfort zones

Stepping out of our comfort zone to grab hold of opportunities can be difficult.

Sometimes we are not aware of reasons to do so. However, most of the time, our frame of mind is holding us back. Understanding the shifts in thinking can help us step outside o...

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"Do one thing every day that scares you."

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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Benefits of leaving the comfort zone

Aside from increasing performance, less-direct benefits include:

Self-actualisation: Reaching one's full potential.
Developing a growth mindset: Setbacks become opportunities for learning.
Resilience and anti-fr...

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Tips to support leaving your comfort zone

Reframe stress: Physiologically, anxiety and excitement both entail the same "stress response." Stress can be negative or positive (eustress). When we reframe the stimuli as exciting, it can help us out of the comfort zone.
Understand neuroplasticity:

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The four zones of growth

Comfort zone
Fear zone
Learning zone
Growth zone

Fear is a necessary step to the learning and growth zones. It takes courage to step from the comfort zone into the fear zone and can be anxiety-provoking. But persevere long...

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From comfort zone to the growth zone

Moving into the growth zone becomes harder without some level of self-awareness.

Everyone's zones vary in size. To leave your comfort zone, you must appreciate its outer limits.
What are your strengths? Most people know what it...

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