How to get out of your comfort zone and get better every day
Your comfort zone is your danger zone. If you don’t leave your comfort zone, you won’t achieve what you want in your life. All your dreams, both the bigger ones and the slightly smaller things you want, are beyond your comfort zone. Everything you already have required you to overcome your comfort zone. But it’s already behind you. In this post, I will show you that it is worth leaving your own comfort zone, because then you get the most from your life.
This blog post answers the following questions:
- What is a comfort zone and why is it considered a danger zone?
- How can you get out of your comfort zone and improve yourself daily?
- Why is expanding your comfort zone crucial for achieving your dreams and desires?
- What is the importance of taking small steps every day to expand your comfort zone?
- How does staying within your comfort zone hinder progress and why is it important to embrace failures and challenges?
Comfort zone — what is it?
It is a boundary of any area of life inside which you feel comfortable. While one person may find it comfortable to run for an hour, ascending to the second floor using stairs can already be significantly outside the comfort zone for another individual, causing considerable difficulty. For some, public speech is a terrible thing, while there are people who love it. For me, publishing a simple book in the USA in a few hours is easy. But for most people, it will be something difficult and even impossible to do. As you may already guess, you can expand your comfort zone. But what for? The reason is simple — to get what you dream of from life.
What do you want? How to get ? Comfort zone is your limitation and key to success at the same time
It doesn’t matter if you want to have more money in your life, improve your health, keep your body in shape, have better relationships, be a happier person, etc. In order to improve every aspect of your life, you must overcome fear and go beyond your individual comfort zone.
You don’t have to do great things and bend your comfort zone to the limits of possibilities right away. Even small daily steps taken to expand your comfort zone will allow you to increase your confidence from the first day. Everyday little steps you take will make you go further and further over time. You’ll feel like you’re going in the right direction. You’ll be a better man.
Force yourself to act every day because the comfort zone blocks you
I try to do something every day that upsets me and makes me nervous. I realized that what I wanted required me to do stressful things. To have what you don’t have you must do what you haven’t been doing so far. If you sit on your ass every day in a safe zone of your comfort, what do you think will happen to you? You’ll lose your life, and you will be lost yourself.
Imagine you are stuck in your bed all month. How would this affect your body, muscles, bones, etc.? You would become a very weak and fragile person very quickly. That’s why you have to force yourself to move forward every day, because that’s the only way to keep yourself in shape and keep going.
It’s not that hard at all
Remember that a small step is enough every day, and the key to success is regular work. You don’t have to do big things today, but do something small every day that stress you out. If you act regularly, it won’t be that hard, and over time you’ll see how much your life has changed. I was also very afraid of moving to another city once, I was afraid of working as a waiter, then it seemed to me that working as a restaurant manager was something very difficult. Then, I started publishing books on Amazon, blogging and recording YouTube clips. Yes, I was right — it wasn’t easy, but a small step every day led me to where I am and I wouldn’t be able to achieve it in a few months. If you spread the process over several years, it turns out that every day was enjoyable, and I only had to slightly expand my own comfort zone each day. The long-term effects of these actions are astonishing.
Comfort zone vs. failures
Maybe you’re trying to earn more, change your job, improve your life, or maybe your health? But why are you not progressing in what you want to change and in your actions? Because you play within your safe zone. You think you can move forward without working every day and doing new stressful things?
When I published my first books, I was very afraid that each of them would be a flop and that it would not work. But I acted despite fear, learned new stuff and did things that felt uncomfortable. Over time, what was difficult and new turned out to be known and easy. However, everything required overcoming fear and action in areas previously unknown. I haven’t been able to avoid many failures, but only taking risks and leaving the comfort zone gives us effects over time.
You need stress and challenges — the comfort zone is in your head
If you’re only doing things that don’t stress you out and don’t force you to cross your borders, that means you’re not growing. If you go to the gym and can carry weights despite the pain, it means the effects will come. If the weights you carry are too light, then there will be no effects. It is similar in other aspects of life. Arnold Schwarzenegger said you can tell the best body-builders from the weaker ones by their ability to reach the pain zone and carry on. This makes them successful. If you feel stress, upset, enjoy it and act anyway. This will allow you to grow every day.
Your comfort zone is your danger zone — watch the video
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Hi, I’m Tomek.
From Waiter To Millionaire.
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Welcome. Today I’ll tell you
about a danger zone.
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Why is your comfort zone so important
and why you must get out of it
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in order to achieve anything in life?
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I invite you to watch this video.
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How to get what you want
in your life?
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You will never get what you want –
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no matter whether it’s
a big or a small dream, things –
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without getting out of your comfort zone.
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Take a moment to think about this,
because if you want to, for example,
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achieve a nice body, health, money,
relationships, success,
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something cool, no matter what it is,
well-being, happiness,
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it will always require you to
step out of your comfort zone.
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Your comfort zone
is your danger zone.
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If you want to have something you don’t have,
whatever it is,
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it will require doing something
that you don’t.
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Let me explain why.
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If you already achieved anything in life
and you have some resources, things,
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it required you
to sacrifice some comfort zone.
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When you were learning to walk,
you were afraid to fall
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and it required you to fight your fear,
doing something difficult
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and only over time
you were able to achieve it.
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It’s always the case that what
you already have doesn’t scare you.
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You are familiar with it
, and you are not afraid of it anymore.
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But what you don’t have
requires you to overcome this fear.
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Take me, for example.
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When I was moving to Kraków,
I was afraid of a lot of things.
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I was afraid of relocation,
I must’ve get out of my comfort zone
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to move out, to become a waiter.
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Then I was a manager
and I was afraid of this work.
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Only now I know that it was very simple.
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I was also very afraid of
publishing my first book.
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It was very difficult for me and required
stepping out of my comfort zone,
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because I was afraid what will happen
and I was thinking that I’ll fail,
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that I’ll lose money.
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And I did lose money at first,
but I got out of my comfort zone
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and moved forward.
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I was persistent, I published
other books, I was learning
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and in time it has started to bear fruit.
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Many people are afraid of
failing and losing.
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Each of us has this fear.
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The question is whether
you’re able to change it
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and if you know that each of us
wants to play in a comfort zone?
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Are you a person who
wants to play in a comfort zone?
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Are you afraid to act or not?
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I see people who don’t want to
step out of their danger zones.
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They sit in their safe spot.
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This spot means something
different for everybody.
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One person didn’t achieve
anything, sits in their home
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and is afraid to do anything.
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The other person can have a job,
income, life, but can still feel bad.
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Why? Because they still
don’t get out of their safety zone.
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The basic thing is to realize that
being in a safety zone,
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regardless of your life situation, is bad.
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Let me explain it.
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Maybe you’re on some advanced level,
but often when people achieve something,
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they think that being in
the discomfort zone is a temporary thing
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and after you achieve something,
you don’t have to do anything.
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It’s not the case.
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You have to take steps everyday.
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Remember that if you want to achieve
something – it doesn’t have to be much –
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you need to take small steps everyday
in order to achieve your dreams.
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It doesn’t have to be much,
but taking small steps everyday
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toward overcoming your comfort zone
will give you overwhelming confidence.
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For example, even today,
I needed to get up at 5.30 a.m.
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to make this video.
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There’re no other people who got up
so early to record a video here.
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I’m the only one. Fortunately.
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It also required me to overcome
my comfort zone.
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It wasn’t easy, because
recording a video outside
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and getting up at 5.30 a.m. to walk here
required getting out of my comfort zone.
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The same applies to publishing books –
I overcome my comfort zone everyday.
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Many people just don’t want to
get out of their zone.
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They can’t handle it
and you often think that
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if you do something,
you can already rest on your laurels.
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I see it in people who have a job,
achieved something,
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earn income, have a family, stabilized
and now they take no new challenges.
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Where does it lead to?
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Many think that when they lose weight,
they don’t need to do anything.
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The same with money.
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Or if you reach pension,
you don’t need to do anything.
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Many people lose a lust for life
and dies shortly after retiring.
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Because our body needs challenges.
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It doesn’t matter whether you’re 15 or 60.
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My grandmother is over 80,
but she takes on new challenges everyday.
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She’s living her life, enjoying it
and she doesn’t seem to be reaching
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the end of her capabilities.
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She’s very healthy.
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The same applies to people in every age –
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if you have goals and take on
challenges everyday, then you’ll be happy.
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It won’t be comfortable, as staying in
your comfort zone seems nice,
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but you can’t do it.
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If you go to bed for a whole month
and won’t do anything,
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you’ll look bad,
your body will be damaged
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and you’ll be unhealthy.
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The same applies to your mind
which needs exercising everyday,
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overcoming its comfort zone to be happy.
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This first discomfort, when you
do something, gives you confidence
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which can’t be achieved in other way
than overcoming a comfort zone,
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performing actions
and achieving your plans.
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So remember – be active.
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Life is a process that requires
taking small steps everyday
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and getting out of your comfort zone.
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Remember one sentence
from this video –
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if you want to have what you don’t,
you have to do what you don’t.
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I hope you’ve enjoyed this video.
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If you want more information, motivation
and knowledge on book publishing,
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watch my other videos.
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Contents
- 1 How to get out of your comfort zone and get better every day
- 1.0.1 Comfort zone — what is it?
- 1.0.2 What do you want? How to get ? Comfort zone is your limitation and key to success at the same time
- 1.0.3 Force yourself to act every day because the comfort zone blocks you
- 1.0.4 It’s not that hard at all
- 1.0.5 Comfort zone vs. failures
- 1.0.6 You need stress and challenges — the comfort zone is in your head
- 1.1 Your comfort zone is your danger zone — watch the video
- 1.2 Your comfort zone is your danger zone — preview the video transcript
- 1.3 Related posts: