Apr '24 (edited) • Psychology & Mindset 🧠
Escaping Your Comfort Zone
It's very easy to be comfortable, it takes minimal to no effort and it feels great! Who doesn't love binging some cheesy tv show, whilst eating Ben & Jerry's cookie dough ice cream after you've finished your 6 hour shift? It's easy 🤷♂️
However, your comfort zone is a very dangerous place to be in. Let's dive in...
👉 Why is it dangerous to stay in your comfort zone? 👈
Whilst lounging around, all warm and fluffy, in your comfort zone, you're sitting in a false sense of security that everything is ok. You ignore the need to progress as a human and that is only done out of your comfort zone. Staying comfortable will make you complacent, lazy and take away any ambition you once had; you will drift along any which way life decides to take you and you can't do shit about it.
People who stay in their comfort zone stay average, or sub average. The average UK salary is £34,900 (pre-tax), the average person can't lift weights, the average person can't run a mile, the average person won't be able to afford their own home, the average person ranks a 7/10 on happiness, the the average person doesn't know how to defend themselves, the average person is afraid of public speaking; you get what I'm trying to say. The AVERAGE person is not impress, and one could argue with how the world is, only just surviving.
👉 Inflation of life 👈
The concept I call "Inflation of Life" explains how life is always progressing and you must progress with it. Inflation rates within an economy rise, which decreases the purchasing power of a currency. For example, if inflation is 5% and your salary isn't going up by 5.1% or more, you're essentially LOSING money. The same with life: if you aren't developing yourself at a substantial rate, life is going to catch up and soon enough eat you up.
By the age of 30, you start to naturally lose muscle. If you're not lifting weights and living healthy, you're going to keep decline. You've got to do MORE to not only retain what you have, but to keep growing.
80% of women want the top 20% of guys. Whether it's due to their money, status, physique, or confidence, women don't want to date down. If you're staying in your comfort zone and not improving, you will be pushed out of the dating scene by other men who are working on themselves to be in that 20%.
Men have a lot of responsibilities in life, whether it's to be the main provider, to always be a gentleman to your girl, to be able to protect yourself and love ones, to handle all the shit life throws at you. if you're not improving your resilience, confidence and discipline, the responsibilities of life will eat you up mentally and maybe even physically.
Life always moves on, it doesn't wait for you, so you must be progressing FASTER than the problems are growing. How does this link to being in your comfort zone? If you're chilling and comfortable, you're not progressing! And THAT is when the inflation of life will eat you up and spit you out.
👉 Why it's so great to be outside of your comfort zone 👈
Confidence is made from taking action, falling down to come back up and just experiencing a vast range of different challenges. It's overcoming obstacles that builds character and grows you, which you can only find whilst being uncomfortable.
You've always been terrified to talk in front of large groups of people. You finally do it, you make a couple mistakes but receive an applause afterwards. Now you KNOW you can do it and you can handle making a couple small blunders; the confidence is now starting to build.
You decide to take a leap and have your first boxing match after training for three months. You don't feel ready, but you're fully committed. You get battered and bruised, after the bell rings all you can hear is the deep panting of your breath. But you never stopped, you persisted, you survived the thing you were scared of doing. You're now building that confidence that you can handle yourself, push aside fear and percevier through pain.
Everything you do that you don't want to do will benefit you in some form or another. Whether it's growing your confidence or making you more disciplined, it's only built through discomfort.
👉 What can you do? 👈
Simple, get out your damn comfort zone. Do things that you haven't done before, do things you've always been scared of doing, do things that you've thought have been impossible. DOING these tasks and challenges are the ket to moving out your comfort zone and developing as a person. No education or YouTube video can beat taking action. Here's some recommendations:
- Join a boxing/Muay Thai/Brazilian jiu-jitsu/MMA gym and commit to weekly sessions which includes sparring
- Have a fight in the martial arts listed above
- Speak to and compliment strangers
- Go alone to the gym in the busiest part of the day
- Perform your artistic/musical talents live
- Attend an event within your work/business industry or related to your hobbies/passions and speak in front of the audience (even just asking questions)
Remember, it's easy to stay in your comfort zone, it's not easy to grow as a person otherwise the average person wouldn't be so shit. Be better than average, chase discomfort and try new things that you never thought you'd do.
Fuck comfort.
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Escaping Your Comfort Zone
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