Comfort Zone,
Atleast almost a good number of people may have used this phrase over time in a conversation, or while offering advise or counsel. And the phrase is usually as easy to pronounce as it is to offer it. Telling them, you need to step out of your comfort zone, or probably telling yourself I need to step out of my comfort zone..
Why comfort zone..
Everybody loves a safe place. A safe environment. An environment that is easy to control. Everyone likes being in charge, we are happy in our various comfort zones. No one wants to be bothered about doing anything extra, anything extra that may bring some form of discomfort. We all love comfort and all pleasures that comfort zones provides us. And at times we can be so drowned into it and making us believe that we deserve that comfort. After all it’s part of life’s entitlement right?
The pictures above are just for attention to just teach us that when stepping out of our comfort zones, we don’t just get to the growth zone immediately but pass through the other zones in between. And these zones in between, usually make us know more about ourselves, our levels of patience and tolerance, our levels of enthusiasm and self drive, our levels of wanting to quench our lusts for new knowledge.. And these levels are what enable us be determined to attain the growth zone, and this can only happen once we step out of our comfort zones.
There’s no formula for stepping out. It’s just a matter of being firm with the decision to change or take up new tasks or new skills. And while at it having the end result in mind is what will push you to keep on trying and trying until you attain your own levels of knowledge and understanding that will put you at the growth zone.
At times in the process of learning one may even slip back into the comfort zone but literally that is the time to even try harder or even push harder not to skid back. We may know our comforts but don’t know our discomforts but as soon as we know our discomforts, these are what will always keep pushing us out of the comfort levels.
Personally I wear many hats. Being a mum, a wife, an employee, a chef and a writer, I try as much as I can to give the same level of energies to all of my job titles. When it’s time to switch to one, I just do it irregardless of whether I want to or not because they are all my commitments. My biggest discomfort had been making commitments of any nature. Not wanting to be accountable or questioned over something and that was very uncomfortable but that discomfort is what has made learn how to be accountable. How to be answerable to someone or something. How to be present when called upon without causing resistance. I have embraced being in the discomfort zones and these are either zones of learning, zones of trials or zones of mistakes, and zones of intentions. When I started writing about two years ago, I thought it was just for fun not that I am being paid yet but hopefully I will😅.. I made it my intention to ensure that I write and post when I intended and purposed to. Equally showing up, even when things go wrong, especially with my many kitchen experiments, I take them as learnings that enable me to improve and do better the next time. I am not sure I am at the growth zone yet, but at least I know I am not at the comfort zone and I also past the stage of skidding back.
Stepping out of one’s comfort zone is always going the extra mile at something. Doing more than what you are expected. Taking a new task, learning it and being the best at it. Doing something different or differently, putting more of your idle time into use. Because oh boy we do have lots of idle time. The other day I was telling a friend that whenever you see me on my phone I am either ninety percent of the time, scouting for recipes or writing an article and this is usually done during my idle time. Idle time that I could have solely devoted it to purely social media.
Each of us has the ability to step out, I Can also agree it’s a personal choice, a personal decision as well wanting to step out. Step out and experience the adrenaline that discomfort brings… . It’s still the first month of the year, let’s agree to step out even if it’s just to learn….
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