Leave your comfort zone if you want to live a comfortable life

We always see the bright side of successful people. We often ignore or don’t want to see the phase of their struggle and hard work behind their luxurious life. They are living a comfortable life because they move out of their comfort zone.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. 

 Our comfort zone is our safe place. It is a beautiful place indeed but nothing grows from there. It’s good to step out of your comfort zone. It helps you grow in understanding and makes you braver even it’s something as simple as a roller coaster.

I learnt this from my own experience. A few months ago I was living a life within my comfort zone as a mother of two kids and a happy homemaker. Then I stepped out of my comfort zone and became a blogger. Now my blogs are ranking on the google search engine. Few of them are on the first page. Even my first blog is also ranking in the first position. Now I am recognized as a blogger too and this happened just because I left my comfort zone.  Though I was happy with my life, I am happier now.

Outside of your comfort zone is where the magic happens. We do so much effort to live a comfortable life. You need to work hard and step out of your comfort zone to make your dreams come true. Even if you have a dream of a life full of comfort, you have to leave your comfort for such a life.

There are pros and cons to everything. So as living in your comfort zone and leave your comfort zone too.

Benefits of stepping out of your comfort zone:

You make many new experiences 

Life is all about experiences. What you learn and experience in your life can determine your success or failure in life. Experiences are both good and bad but both help us live a more educated and productive life. You’ll become more creative when you seek new experiences.

You will develop new skills 

When you stepping out of your comfort zone you develop new skills and your ability and expertise in new areas. Once you confidently step outside of your comfort zone and learn a new skill you can be more successful than your imagination. Leaving my comfort zone stimulates creativity to meet new possibilities.

You will achieve more than before 

Once you move out of your comfort zone, you are naturally going to achieve more than ever before. When you live your life under the shelter of your comfort zone you will not realize that how many achievements are waiting for you.

You gain self-confidence 

 When you take steps to achieve your goals by leaving your comfort zone, will have positive effects on your self-efficiency belief or confidence. Moving out of your comfort zone to learn new skills and live your dreams, in reality, stimulates your self-confidence to another level.

Personal development 

Personal growth and self-improvement are a big part of being successful in your life. What we do, what we think reflects our personality. When we learn new skills and achieve something, it boosts our confidence automatically which improves our personal development.

There are many more reasons to leave your comfort zone i.e. you can find out about yourself, you can find out your passion, you can also learn how to deal with your fear and so on.

Like its pros, there are some cons of leaving your comfort zone too.

It’s a mental challenge to leave your comfort zone 

Leaving your comfort zone is not as easy as it seems. Moving out of your comfort zone is a mental challenge. It can be stressful. Even many people are just not ready for it yet. Stepping out of your comfort zone can be scary and lead to temporary mental issues.

It can be exhausting as well 

 Another disadvantage is that it can be quite exhausting. Many people, who work in demanding jobs for long hours daily, will not have the power to leave their comfort zone since their daily life is already very exhausting.

You can face some disappointment 

When you leave your comfort zone, you can face disappointments from time to time. However, you will make good experiences too and don’t be dishearten with bad experiences because we learn more from bad experiences than good experiences.

Leaving your comfort zones can be risky 

Stepping out of your comfort zone may involve risk. However, if you want to succeed in life you have to take risks. Leaving your comfort zone needs courage.

Leaving your comfort zone is a long term process and it can be time-consuming too. 

Stepping out of your comfort zone is a long term process. You need to be mentally prepared to leave your comfort zone which is a time taking process. It can be time-consuming too as it will not solve all your problems immediately. It’s a process to improve yourself over time. 

What to do? 

We have seen many advantages and disadvantages of leaving your comfort zone. Though there is no harm in living in your comfort zone, when you take risks, espouse some discomfort and succeed, you boost your confidence.

You have to push harder yourself to move out of your comfort zone. You can feel stress initially. You have to struggle to accomplish your goal. Though this stress is temporary, once you achieve your goals nothing can beat that satisfaction that comes from it.

 In my opinion comfort zone prevents you from improving. It makes you miserable and stops you from achieving those things you are capable of achieving.

 However, the comfort zone is flexible. It expands with each action you take outside your comfort zone and when you become an expert in that skill or action, it becomes part of your comfort zone.

So make a decision today to improve your life or change something in your life and start experiencing positive changes. Embracing your courage rather than your comfort zone. 

There are many ways to make yourself ready to quit your comfort zone. If you want me to discuss them write in the comments section, we’ll discuss them in the next article.