Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

Anyone can love a rose but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but beautiful to love the ordinary.

People provoke your unhealed versions and hurt your wounded parts ad infinitum, and when your warrior side comes out to shield, they suddenly become victims.

Healing is hard when your inner child wants love, your teenage self wants revenge, and your current self wants peace.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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La vraie manière de l'honorer ou de le respecter, ce n'est pas de se tourner vers les siècles éteints pour contempler une longue chaîne de fantômes: le vrai moyen de respecter le passé, c'est de continuer, vers l'avenir, l'œuvre des forces vives qui, dans le passé, travaillèrent.The true way to honor or to respect [the past] is not to turn towards extinct centuries to contemplate a long chain of ghosts: the true way to respect the past is to continue, towards the future, the work of the living forces which, in the past, worked.

Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre.It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes.

To be true to tradition, you need to be true to its flame; not its ashes.

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Jean Jaurès: The True Way To Honour The Past

Improving the note-taking process can significantly enhance a professional's ability to capture, organize, and use information efficiently, leading to better decision-making, creativity, and productivity.Note-taking isn't just recording info; it's an active process of summarizing, organizing, and synthesizing data.For busy professionals, efficient note-taking is crucial to stay ahead.

Why Note-taking Is Crucial for Busy Professionals?

Benefits of effective note-taking include:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Quick capture of essential details.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Logical organization of thoughts.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Enhanced memory.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">A knowledge repository for future reference.</li></ul>

Benefits of Effective Note-taking

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Introducing the ICOR® Note-Taking Framework

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Choose the right digital tools.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Develop a consistent structure.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Use tags and categories.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Practice active listening.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Incorporate visuals.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Review and revise regularly.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Automate when possible.</li></ul>

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Choosing the right tools and employing effective strategies leads to enhanced productivity, better information retention, streamlined collaboration, increased creativity, and reduced stress.Read the full article <a href="https://paperlessmovement.com/articles/7-top-note-taking-strategies-for-busy-professionals/">here</a>!

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<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The First 20 Hours is about rapid skill acquisition: picking up new skills as quickly as possible. You can go from knowing nothing to performing well in a very short period. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">It could take 20 hours or less.</li></ul>

Introduction

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You probably have a skill you have always wanted to learn. May be it's playing the piano, doing well on the tennis court, or becoming conversational in French. It's never too late to learn your chosen skill. One of the most common regrets is not pursing give up before even learning the basics, because they believe it's too late.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">However, you can use rapid skill acquisition to kick start your experience. By using this technique, you can become competent in the skills you want to learn by putting in 20 hours if work. These hours will make to learn basics but skill mastery will take longer</li></ul>

Use Rapid Skill Acquisition to Learn Within 20 Hours

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">The First few hours of leaning something new are always the hardest; this is where most people give up. This said, if you break your 20 hours down into an hour of practice per day, you will rapidly improve.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">You will find it much easier to continue building your skills after you've completed the first 20 hours. Once you get through the first 20 hours, you'll have significant practice will be easier. To make the most of these initial 20 hours, adopt the ten principles of rapid skill acquisition.</li></ul>

"Skill is the result of deliberate consistent practice, and in early-stage practice, quantity and speed trump absolute quality. The faster and more often you practice, the more rapidly you'll acquire the skill"

10 Clear principles to improve the efficiency of your skill acquisition:
<ol>
<li>Choose a lovable project</li>
<li>Focus your energy on one skill at a time</li>
<li>Define your target performance level</li>
<li>Deconstruct the skill into sub skills </li>
<li>Obtain critical tools</li>
<li>Eliminate barriers to practice</li>
<li>Make dedicated time for practice</li>
<li>Create fast feedback loops</li>
<li>Practice by the clock in short bursts</li>
<li>Emphasize quantity and speed.</li>
</ol>

Apply the Ten Principles of Skill Acquisition

"The best thing that can happen to a human being is to find a problem, to fall in love with that problem, and to live trying to solve that problem, unless another problem even more lovable appears"

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">There are probably many skills you'd like to acquire. But the first step of rapid skill acquisition is choosing to focus on one. Start by making a list of all the skills you're interested in, and pick the one most exciting to you right now. This excitement will help you stay motivated through your practice</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Use your time wisely when trying to learn something new, since you may only have about an hour a day to dedicate to it. Trying to learn multiple concepts at once would mean slow progress, which is not motivating at all.</li></ul>

Lean Your Chosen Skill by Focusing Your Energy

"Pick one, and only one, new skill you wish to acquire. Put all of your spare focus and energy into acquiring that skill and place other skills on temporary hold."

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Practice in 20 minute bursts so that you can focus all your energy on your chosen learning task. These bursts should involve deliberate and consistent practices. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">The faster and more often you practice the quicker you'll acquire the skill.</li></ul><ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Research the skill and related topics</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Jump in over your head</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Identify mental models & mental hooks</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Imagine the opposite of what you want</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Talk to practitioners to set expectations</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Eliminate distractions in your environment</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Use spaced repetition & reinforcement for memortization</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Create scaffolds & checklists</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Make & test predictions</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Honor your biology.</li></ol>

Apply the 10 Major Principles of Effective Learning

"Skill acquisition requires practicing the skill in question. It requires significant periods of sustained, focused concentration. It requires creativity, flexibility and the freedom to set your own standard of success.

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Deciding how proficient you want to become at your chosen skill is the third principle in rapid skill acquisition. This is called your "Target Performance Level". It's important because if you can envision the end goal, it'll be easier to get there. Decide what level of skill is "good enough" for you. For example, if you're learning to play an instrument, consider whether you want to play a few songs by heart or jump into a jam session.</li></ul>

Choose your Skill

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">As well as choosing your skill level, you also have to use smaller steps. Break your chosen skills down into bite-sized pieces that you can tackle one by one. You don't attempt to down an entire meal in one bite, and you shouldn't try to learn a skill in one swing.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">By dividing the work ahead of you, progress will be easier, and the steps you need to take to succeed will be clearer.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">As well as defining the specific skill level you want to pursue, you need to identify the tools you need to succeed at your skill level. The tools are the fundamental building blocks of your skills. </li></ul>

Use Smaller Steps & Acquire The Tools You Need

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">When learning a skill, there will always be barriers that interfere with your learning process. So, consider any emotional roadblocks that may stand in your path, like fear or self-doubt. Remove any distractions, like a phone that might ring. Create a distraction less learning environment.</li></ul>

Limit Distractions

"If you want to get good at anything where real life performance matters, you have to practice that skill in context. Study by itself, is never enough."

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">In today's world, people are busier than ever. So, if you want to learn a new skill, you need to make time to practice. Identify other activities in your life that you aren't fond of, and work to cut those out. Fill that time with practicing your new skill. Your goal is to free up at least 90 minutes for practice each day by cutting low-value activities as much as possible. You could divide this time into three to five practice sessions.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Can use Pomodoro technique</li></ul>

Give Yourself Time to Practice

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Practice in brief bursts. Shorten your working periods so you can avoid working on difficult or tedious activities for extended periods. Such activities can be draining and often lead to inefficiency. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">When you first start learning the hours of practice seen to drag on longer and longer. Because the task is difficult, it feels like you've spent longer practicing than you have.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Avoid this feeling by using a 20-Minute timer. The timer will let you know how long you've been practicing. Since you'll know how long you've been working, you'll be more motivated during that period.</li></ul>

Prioritize Quantity & Speed By Practicing in Short Bursts

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">Decide exactly what you want to be able to do, and to what level</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Deconstruct a skill into the smallest possible subskills </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Learn enough about each sub-skill to able to practice intelligently and self-correct during practice.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Remove physical, mental and emotional barriers that get in the way of practice.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Practice the most important sub-skills for at least 20 Hours.</li></ol>

In Summary, to acquire a skill quickly

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Focus on one skill at a time</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Get the right tools for the job</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Remove distractions from your environment and address the fears</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Prioritize quantity and speed over quality in the first 20 hours</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Cut low value activities from your day. Use free time to practice your skills for at least 90 minutes. This can be broken into shorter bursts</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Track your progress and give yourself feedback, or else find a coach.</li></ul>

Let's run through some top tips to help you with your learning process:

The First 20 Hours focuses on the idea that you can become relatively good at anything within 20 hours.

Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less?   Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare?   Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . .   In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well.   Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches:<ul><li>Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better.</li><li>Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first.</li><li>Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice.</li><li>Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve.</li></ul>Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.

Josh Kaufman is an independent business teacher, education activist, and author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business.Josh's unique, multidisciplinary approach to business education has helped hundreds of thousands of readers around the world master foundational business concepts on their own terms, and his work has been featured in BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Fast Company, as well as by influential websites like Lifehacker, HarvardBusiness.org, Cool Tools, and Seth Godin's Blog.

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Persistent interests, especially those rooted in your early years, often act as beacons guiding you towards your true calling. These interests, be it in arts, sciences, or any other field, persist over time, evolving and deepening. They are not fleeting whims but passions that withstand the test of time. Reflecting on what consistently draws your attention can reveal much about your true purpose. These interests are more than hobbies; they are indicators of where your heart and mind align, pointing towards a path that can lead to personal fulfillment and professional success.

Unwavering Interest: The Beacon of Your True Calling

Taking regular, consistent actions towards your goals is a clear indicator of passion. It's not just about big leaps but also about the small, daily steps that gradually lead you to your ultimate goal. This could mean dedicating time to read articles, engage in related activities, or simply immerse yourself in learning about your field of interest. Consistency in these actions, even when they seem minor, is crucial. It shows a commitment that goes beyond mere interest – it's a sign of a deeper calling.

Consistent Action: The Hallmark of Passion

Connecting with others who share your passion is not just about networking for professional gains; it's about finding a community that speaks your language. These connections can be a source of inspiration, motivation, and support. Sharing your passion with others can lead to new insights, opportunities, and even friendships. It's about creating a space where your passion is not just accepted but celebrated. Engaging in communities, both online and offline, allows you to immerse yourself in an environment that nurtures and fuels your interests.

The Power of Connection: Networking and Sharing Your Passion

Setting clear, ambitious goals is essential in the pursuit of your passion. These goals act as milestones on your journey, giving you direction and purpose. They should be challenging yet achievable, pushing you to stretch your limits while still being within reach. These goals can be professional, like advancing in your career, or personal, like mastering a skill or visiting a place that inspires you. The key is to set goals that ignite more passion within you, making the journey towards them as fulfilling as the achievement itself.

Goal-Oriented Pursuits: Setting and Achieving Ambitious Goals

A true calling is often accompanied by dreams that never fade. These are the aspirations that stay with you, constantly simmering in the back of your mind. They might get sidelined due to life's responsibilities, but they never disappear. These dreams are your heart's true desires, guiding you towards what you genuinely want to achieve. They are the fuel that keeps your passion alive, inspiring you to take risks and embark on new projects. Embracing these dreams, no matter how lofty they may seem, is crucial.

Dreams That Never Fade: Constant Aspirations Fueling Your Journe

Your childhood interests can serve as insightful clues to your true calling. These early passions often reflect your innate talents and predilections. They are unfiltered expressions of what genuinely excites and motivates you. Revisiting these childhood interests can be a revealing exercise. It can help you rediscover passions that you might have overlooked or set aside in the pursuit of more practical goals. These early interests are like signposts, pointing you towards areas where you could find deep satisfaction and success.

Childhood Interests as Guides: Unearthing Clues to Your Calling

Integrating your passion into your daily life is a key aspect of living your true calling. It's about making your passion a constant presence, not just an occasional hobby. This integration can take many forms, from dedicating a part of your day to your passion to finding ways to incorporate it into your work or personal life. It's about creating a lifestyle that reflects and nurtures your true interests. This daily engagement keeps your passion alive and vibrant, ensuring that it continues to grow and evolve.

Integrating Passion into Daily Life

Being part of a community that shares your passion can significantly deepen your engagement and understanding of your calling. Whether it's a professional group or a hobbyist club, these communities provide a platform for sharing knowledge, experiences, and insights. They offer opportunities for collaboration, learning, and growth. Engaging with these communities allows you to see your passion from different perspectives, enriching your own understanding and appreciation. It also provides a sense of belonging, knowing that there are others who share your enthusiasm and interests.

Community Engagement: Deepening Your Connection to Your Passion

Unleash Your True Potential! Join us in exploring how to find and follow your true calling. From childhood passions to setting life-changing goals, learn the secrets to living a life filled with purpose and joy.

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The beauty of endorphins lies in their dual ability to alleviate physical discomfort and elevate mood, making them essential for both physical and emotional health.Endorphins, often termed as nature's painkillers, play a pivotal role in reducing pain and enhancing pleasure. These natural chemicals are produced by the brain and are released during activities like exercising and laughing. When you engage in a physical workout, your body undergoes a form of positive stress. This stress, albeit mild or intense, triggers the release of endorphins, leading to an improved sense of well-being.

Endorphins: Nature's Painkiller and Pleasure Inducer

Dopamine, often associated with pleasure and motivation, is a neurotransmitter that plays a crucial role in how we feel pleasure. It's a driving force behind our desires to seek out activities and goals. The release of dopamine occurs when we achieve something, whether it's a significant accomplishment or a simple task like completing an email. This chemical creates a sense of satisfaction and pleasure, reinforcing our actions and encouraging us to repeat them. Interestingly, the anticipation of a reward can also trigger dopamine release, enhancing our motivation to pursue goals.

Dopamine: The Reward Chemical

Serotonin is a key neurotransmitter in stabilizing our mood, feelings of well-being, and happiness. It helps regulate mood, anxiety, and happiness. Low levels of serotonin are linked to depression and anxiety, while higher levels contribute to feelings of happiness and calm. One way to naturally boost serotonin is through diet, particularly by consuming foods rich in tryptophan. Tryptophan, when combined with carbohydrates, enhances serotonin production. Foods like turkey, salmon, cheese, and nuts, accompanied by carbs like bread or fruit, can effectively increase serotonin levels.

Serotonin: The Mood Stabilizer

Oxytocin, often referred to as the 'love hormone,' plays a crucial role in forming social bonds and nurturing relationships. It's released during acts of closeness and bonding, such as hugging, holding hands, or other forms of physical contact. Oxytocin not only enhances our connections with others but also promotes feelings of social trust and empathy. It's also released during acts of kindness, whether towards people we know or strangers. Helping others can trigger a release of oxytocin, leading to feelings of contentment and a sense of connection with the world.

Oxytocin: The Social Bonding Hormone

Exercise is a powerful tool for mental health, offering a range of benefits that extend beyond physical fitness. Engaging in physical activity, whether it's a high-intensity workout or a gentle walk, can significantly boost endorphin levels. These endorphins act as natural mood lifters, reducing stress and anxiety while promoting feelings of happiness and relaxation. Exercise also has a positive impact on other mood-related chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, further enhancing its mental health benefits.

The Benefits of Exercise for Mental Health

Laughter is a powerful tool for enhancing emotional well-being. It's not just an expression of joy but also a catalyst for various positive chemical reactions in the body. When we laugh, our body releases endorphins, the body's natural feel-good chemicals. These endorphins promote an overall sense of well-being and can temporarily relieve pain. Laughter also reduces the level of stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving our resistance to disease

Laughter as a Tool for Emotional Well-being

Feel-Good Chemicals and Science behind it

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Triggers, those sudden and intense emotional reactions, are an inevitable part of the human experience. While they can vary widely from person to person.

Understanding

1. Past Experiences2. Unmet Needs 3. Conditioning and Associations4. Stress and Fatigue

Why Do Triggers Occur?

- Triggers often stem from unresolved issues or traumatic experiences in our past. Unprocessed emotions associated with these events can resurface when triggered by similar situations or stimuli.

1. Past Experiences

- Unmet emotional needs can amplify sensitivity, making individuals more prone to being triggered. Recognizing and addressing these needs is a key step in minimizing the impact of triggers.

2. Unmet Needs

- Certain cues or environments become associated with specific emotions over time. Triggers can occur when encountering these familiar elements, as the brain automatically recalls the associated emotional response

3. Conditioning and Associations

- High levels of stress or exhaustion can lower emotional resilience, making individuals more susceptible to triggers. Self-care practices play a crucial role in reducing vulnerability.

4. Stress and Fatigue

1. Self-Awareness2. Mindfulness Practices3. Seek Professional Support4. Healthy Coping Mechanisms5. Set Boundaries6. Build Resilience

How to Navigate Triggers

- Recognizing personal triggers is the first step. Reflect on past experiences and identify patterns in emotional reactions. Increased self-awareness empowers individuals to anticipate and manage triggers.

1. Self-Awareness

- Cultivating mindfulness through practices such as meditation and deep breathing helps create a mental space to observe triggers without immediate emotional reactions. Mindfulness fosters a sense of control and presence.

2. Mindfulness Practices

- Therapy provides a safe and supportive environment to explore and process triggers. A mental health professional can offer guidance and coping strategies tailored to individual experiences.

3. Seek Professional Support

- Replace unhealthy coping mechanisms with healthier alternatives. Engaging in activities like exercise, journaling, or connecting with supportive friends can redirect focus and alleviate emotional distress.

4. Healthy Coping Mechanisms

- Establishing clear boundaries in relationships and environments can reduce the likelihood of encountering triggering situations. Communicate needs openly to create a supportive network.

5. Set Boundaries

- Strengthen emotional resilience through practices that enhance overall well-being. Adequate sleep, regular exercise, and a balanced diet contribute to a more resilient mindset.

6. Build Resilience

If you're struggling to cope with overwhelming emotions, it can help to recognize and manage triggers:<ul><li>Identify - notice what triggers your emotions and behavior</li><li>Avoid - stay away from triggers to prevent intense reactions</li><li>Replace - find healthy activities to replace destructive behaviors</li></ul>Emotional triggers can be challenging, but with self-awareness and healthy coping mechanisms, you can navigate them successfully

Understanding and Overcoming Emotional Responses

Understanding why triggers occur and learning how to manage them is crucial for emotional well-being.

Psychology of Triggers

“To be front and honest, I don’t mind remaining in my comfort zone. I feel a lot safer and in control” she said."but for how long?” I asked.***Comfort Zone is an activity, a place, or a person, that we fall back unto (for a period of time) to boost our sense of security and safety, inorder to reduce the risk of stress and anxiety. — The Mindrest.<a href="https://instabio.cc/4032001fjEfD0">The Mindrest Company.</a>

The Comfort Zone.

How is ‘Comfort Zone’ dangerous? The meaning doesn’t even sound scary.Well, the purpose of the comfort zone is to bring peace and serenity in bad times in order to heal, grow, and develop mentally before returning on track. However, a lot of us (if not many of us), including myself, recently abuse it.

Question 1.

Abuse my comfort zone? How can I possibly abuse it? You may think.We abuse our comfort zone when we become obsessed with being comfortable and resisting growth.As humans, we are expected to grow. Just like we don’t remain a particular age forever because, feel comfortable in that age (0–19) and we were really taken care of (provided our needs) by our parents or guardian, unlike now that we are meant to cater for ourselves as adults. Therefore, if we don’t remain at those pampering ages forever, we are not expected to remain in a certain place (stagnant) forever.

Question 2.

Using the bird, for instance, if it chooses to remain in the cage because the owner chooses to feed it daily, and coerced it into thinking that once it is set free, a larger bird will prey on it. It won’t be able to spread it’s wing wide and fly to see how large the world is or even meet it’s kind. If the bird chooses to be comfortable with its captor, all of these will be impossible. Also, it will likely die in that small cage without seeing the world, meeting its kind, and will have no idea that it can fly high.***"Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray

Fig. 1

Mostimes, just like the caged bird is coerced into thinking that once it is set free, a larger bird will prey on it, we also might have been brainwashed into thinking that staying in our safe zone will minimize risk. Therefore, we choose to remain in our comfort zone because we fear the risk of uncertainty — change and failure.***“The sooner you step away from your comfort zone you’ll realize that it really wasn’t all that comfortable.” – Eddie Harris, Jr.

Fig. 2

We all want to be wealthy, famous, admired, etc, but we are scared to put our work out there because we fear rejection, and our sight fogged with the ‘what if’ statement (negative thoughts). You can’t possibly become an exceptional writer, a millionaire, famous business tycoon, and so much more by remaining in your comfort zone.So, if you can’t attain all of these by remaining in your comfort zone, why remain there for too long, where growth is unattainable?.***“The comfort zone is nothing else but a graveyard for your dreams & ideas.” – Unknown

Fig. 3

The dangers of remaining in our comfort zone are more than the benefits. This includes;<ul><li>Sleeping on your potentials — You will have no idea of what you are capable of because you don’t know your true self. Also, as a result of that, shut the abilities that perhaps you didn’t even know you possessed, at the end of the day losing them. Staying too long in your comfort zone removes that extraordinary potential from you.</li><li>Comfortablilty breeds Laziness — You will become obsessed with being comfortable because ‘Comfort is simply... Comforting’. You will lose your strength and brawn to work hard.</li></ul>

Dangers of Remaining In ‘Comfort Zone’.

<ul><li>Develop unhealthy habits or addictions — When your fallback activity becomes stress eating or substance abuse, you become addicted to eating wrongfully and badly intakes. At the end of the day, developing health problems or even mental health related issues like social anxiety, reoccurring moodswings, and eating disorders.</li><li>Codependent — When you become too comfortable with a person, to the point of being obsessive, meaning that you cling tightly onto this person. You will find it difficult to recuperate on your own when this person becomes unavailable.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Inability to face challenges — When met with adversity, instead of facing it head-on and challenging the issues, you will craw back to your shell. As a result of that, quitting early on.</li><li>Zero Growth — There is absolutely nothing to learn in your comfort zone. Therefore, if you are not learning, you are not growing. There is saying that goes, ‘like anything in a confined space, you can only grow fitting the walls that surround you’. This means that learning and development ends within the boundaries. Anything beyond that line is unknown to you.</li></ul>

III.

<ul><li>Settling — You embrace crumbs because that is what you are used to. When you fear change and failure, you settle with the little you have attained. “Oh, I am scared of sending out my cv to that big firm, it is far and I don’t like travelling, what if they don’t like me or my criteria doesn’t fit”, someone with a truck load of potentials that earns less than minimum wage a month. This is exactly how comfortable and good you will be at settling. Forgetting that in this life, you have to take risks to make it far.</li></ul>

These are the dangers of remaining too long in your comfort zone. However, it is safe to understand in as much as your comfort zone is great for rejuvenating (psychologically recuperate before returning to more anxiety-inducing and uncertain situations), know when to leave and continue with your life. Don’t get too comfortable. Step out and embrace more activities and experiences.NB: Everyone has a comfort zone to retrace steps and build confidence due to its comforting nature. Sadly, staying for too long isn’t encouraged.<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CZfrq-VKO-f/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=">Check out the mindrest’s support to aid step out of your comfort zone.</a>

Conclusion.

The purpose of an ideal human being is to break boundaries and protocols to expand. This means that, you can’t possibly develop and expand by remaining in your comfort zone. You need to step out.

The Untold Dangers of Remaining in 'Comfort Zone'.

If you find yourself always feeling the need to check your phone or have a conversation you have to change your ways. You could try:<ol><li>Moving your phone out of reach so you physically HAVE to get up to check it.</li><li>Sit in a quiet area away from socialisation.</li><li>Think about your goals/ what that task leads to.</li><li>Just think, what consequences are there from not completing this task?</li></ol>

Distraction? Gone.

If you can't focus alone and need someone to talk to, here's a few things you could ask them to do:<ol><li>Ask them to help you. Especially if they had a goal they completed that was similar, it could motivate you to do yours too!</li><li>Make conversations related to your task. Off-topic discussion could lead to you being distracted, therefore not finishing your task. </li></ol>

A bit lonely?

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want an what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."

Every path you take in your life leads to a happy ending, whether that's in 30 years time or if it's next week. All of your goals are possible and you shouldn't let anyone convince you otherwise.

Just Remember....

I am ALWAYS struggling to focus whether it's work, reading a book or even just listening to someone's really, REALLY long story. I know it isn't fun.

What to do if you can't focus

Understanding the 'WHY' in our lives is crucial.It's our compass, guiding decisions and motivating action.Let's explore why a PKM System is essential for busy professionals.

Why "Why's"?

At the Paperless Movement®, we've crafted a PKM System through decades of productivity experience.It's more than a tool; it's a life-changer.

More than a Tool

"Every intellectual endeavour starts with a note." — Sönke Ahrens.A robust PKM system ensures no idea is lost, maximizing potential.

Why #1: Capture Everything

Like compound interest, a PKM System compounds your efforts, turning knowledge into a solid framework of understanding.

Why #2: Leverage and Compounding.

Reflection is key to success.A good PKM system promotes this, sharpening decision-making and boosting success rates.

Why #3: Promote Your Thinking Process.

It's not just what you know, but how you use it.A structured PKM System turns information into actionable insights.Read the full article <a href="https://paperlessmovement.com/articles/why-do-you-need-a-pkm-as-a-busy-professional/">here</a>.

Why #4: Move Information into Action.

"All I did was take things a little further than just having the idea."

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We need the 'why's in our life to become truly engaged in our pursuits.

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