Stepping outside your comfort zone

We all don't like to feel uncomfortable in any situation. As a result, some of us will go to great lengths to avoid situations that make us feel uncomfortable. Unfortunately, sometimes that avoidance strategy is a killer of creating change and achieving the results we want.

Change doesn't happen by staying in our comfort zone. Change only happens when we step out of it, but this lies the challenge. To create change and strike out in new directions requires doing something you haven't done before. Yes! It means rocking the boat or the status quo. It requires deciding not to settle for mediocrity.

Making changes can bring up all sorts of feelings like fear, resistance and self-doubt. And that feels uncomfortable. So, unless you are willing to expose yourself to feeling uncomfortable, you are going to stay stuck.  You have to get out there and frighten the pants off yourself. You have to take risks. You have to feel fear and carry on regardless.

I invite each and every one of you to take a look at what sort of feelings come up you when you want to create change or achieve a different outcome. What do you need to do to manage those feelings so that you can learn how to get comfortable feeling uncomfortable?

Sherldine Tomlinson, MSc, R.Kin