Motivation Mondays: Comfort Zone
“A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.”Denis Waitley
Motivation Mondays: Comfort Zone – Fire walking
Motivation Mondays: Comfort Zone – The Atlantic Ocean of our hearts beckons
Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you’d just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting. Edward Whitacre, Jr.
Do you know when you are languishing in your Comfort Zone? What is stopping you from stepping out? Some years ago, I was offered the opportunity to move out to Los Angeles for a job that would maximize all my training and skills set. I was afraid because, even though I’d moved a lot in my life, I was very comfortable in New York. I agonized over making a decision to take on this job that would stretch me, teach me, push me to the edge, and I felt this barrier or wall of excuses arise. What about the kids? The family? Our home? I’d gone through a rigorous set of interviews and I wanted the job but, l wished it were in NY.
Eventually, a friend advised me to take Tony Robbins course that includes a Fire Walk. I thought my friend had lost her mind. But the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. I became motivated. I signed up, flew to Atlanta and took the course. It was one of the most life changing events in my life. A month later, I was on my way to California. A lot happened to get me adjusted in Los Angeles, but each time the fear of pushing through my comfort zone arose, I would remind myself that if I could walk on fire, what was my excuse? We have periods in our lives, when we choose the path of no resistance because it feels safe but, true growth is not there. Unless, we give ourselves permission to take that first step, take that risk, and believe we will be fine, we’d never know our full strength. Step out and face that mountain.
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” Brian Tracy
Motivation Mondays: Comfort Zone – Face the Fear
As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal. Robin S. Sharma
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. C. S. Lewis
What are you afraid would happen if you moved your feet in a new direction? When I was thinking of coming to the US from London, I was excited and terrified. Like any other immigrant story, it would mean leaving the comfort of family and friends, and entering a new world with new customs and even, for some, a new language. I was lured by the prospects of a loving relationship and the opportunity to get away from the norm. I wanted to do it and yet everyone, including my Dad, told me it was not such a great idea for a young woman to venture out into a new country on her own. I applied to a college, got accepted, and convinced my Dad that I would honor my studies and focus on my education. I was motivated to take that next step. With some reservation, he agreed and gave me his blessings.
On a cold February morning, I was off to the USA. The relationship never materialized, and I found that I needed to focus on something fast, and get with the program of pushing past my FEAR! I committed to my studies and made plans to leave the area for a new setting. New York City called me, and l responded by moving there. The first year was incredibly hard and, many a day, l imagined throwing in the towel and going home but I stayed here. I wanted my Dad to know that l was keeping my promise and hadn’t lost my métier. Sometimes, we have to let go of our security to grow and find who and what we are truly made of. What stops YOU?
The details for Motivation Mondays are below. Join in! The themes for January are:
01/05 – Silence
01/12 – Perspective
01/19 – Communication – Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
01/26 – Comfort
02/02 – Attitude
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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Neale Donald Walsch
Motivation Mondays: Comfort Zone – Step out of your home
I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. The Creator has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about. Joel Osteen
What do you wish you could accomplish today? Next month? This year? Do you feel stuck? If you are feeling complacent, take a moment to think about what’s causing the lethargy. If you feel you are on track, nudge yourself to reach out make a connection, take a chance at starting something new, and feeling a bit vulnerable and exposed. Why bother? You might ask. Because there is great opportunity for growth there. With some motivation, we’ll soon be on our way to meeting new challenges. If you chose not to be bothered, imagine the pain you’d feel in that nursing home, when you realize that you let fear get in the way. Get out of your own way, step out of your comfort zone and live!
Positive Motivation Tip: Complacency is the road to inaction. Step out of your comfort zone and LIVE!
The comfort zone is a state within which a person feels at ease, familiar, in control, and experiences low anxiety. A person in this state uses a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk.[1] Wikipedia
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Until Next Time…
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Elizabeth Obih-Frank
Mirth and Motivation
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A very impressing article, thanks for sharing it.
I just love your motivational Monday series. It’s become a habit room read it. Always provocative.
Since Monday’s my least favorite day of the week, I needed some motivation! Thanks for the inspiring messages.
As they say, life begins outside your comfort zone. We should really dare to take risk and go out of the ordinary because it is in that path that we make a difference.
This is so true I am well engrossed in my comfort zone and have to take some risks and learn to take that first step.
So you did the fire walk? Well done! Fear cripples us all from time to time and it’s very hard to overcome!
True. It was exhilarating to walk on fire. 🙂
I love the post and staying motivated. You have come along way in Six Years. Congrats Eliz!! ♥ Jackie*
Excellent
So good to hear from you Jake! Happy New Year. 🙂
Great post, Elizabeth, one that resonates with me. I’ve been thinking about fear, taking chances and stepping out of faith and this thought occurred to me: you’ve got to be willing to step off the edge trusting/accepting that you could fall and do it anyway. Once I had that thought, my fear (and the headache I gave myself) disappeared.
Good for you to go for it! I’m glad to reconnect after some time. We should catch up by phone soon. 🙂
I have trouble stepping outside of my comfort zone sometimes, but I try when I can. It’s definitely not easy, though.
I completely agree with that quote 100%!! We fear things that we are unfamiliar with yet ironically, it’s these things that bring us closer to our truth!
There are some days when I’m gung ho, and I get a ton done. There are other days when I just feel grateful I got through the day!
My Monday definitely needed a little bit of motivation! Thank you 🙂
This is a great post! Your pictures are amazing and I love the picture of seeing the ocean through the trees! Such a great frame you created for that picture!
I like a good challenge. I left home at 18 for the big city and never looked back. I don’t know what I would be afraid of? Room & board maybe? LOL
Great post! Very inspiring. I’ve stepped out of my comfort zone a few times, and each time it was very rewarding. You’ll only regret the things you’ve never done, so go for it!
Great post! Very inspiring. I’ve stepped out of my comfort zone a few times, and each time it was very rewarding. You’ll only regret the things you’ve never done, so go for it!
Trying to accomplish anything today has be thwarted by this storm. The visual of the guy walking the hot coals is amazing.. i want to do that some day. if every possible.
Stepping out of your comfort zone is so difficult, but it’s always rewarding even if (like your experience) it turns out differently than you thought it would. Kudos to you for doing that in such a big way!
This post really spoke to me. I needed this today. I am the worst when it comes go my comfort zone and leaving it. I need to try something new!
I love the photos! Very beautiful. I’m always in need of some motivation. I often try to find the motivation to get some more exercise in. Sometimes you just have to get up and do it. 🙂
I always have a hard time breaking out of my comfort zone- for fear of the ‘unknown’!
Great article! Thanks for sharing!
Frankly speaking, there’s nothing wrong with staying in our comfort zones. Somehow I feel that this term is abused by some people, who use it as an excuse for their lack of action to break out of a situation whereby they’re actually not getting the contentment they feel they deserve.
If you are happy in your comfort zone, stay there. I don’t see how people can abuse the term; this is not a dictatorship. You either stay in or you step out. It’s a choice. 🙂
I happen to be going through a time of transition myself right now. I can feel myself growing and changing. It is scaring and exciting all at once.
GoiNo out of your comfort zone can be hard but it can be so worth it!
This is a nice meme to start the week. We all need something to motivate us we face new challenges 🙂
What a motivating post!!!
Everyone learns something when they finally leave the comfort zone. I think the comfort zone tends to be where we stop learning.
Everyone loves to stay in their comfort zone but getting out of it is truly an adventure!
Such a great post. I used to live in my comfort zone but my husband changed that when we got married and I don’t regret it!
I love the saying that life begins at the end of your comfort zone. It’s so true! The best things of my life are the result of stepping outside of my comfort zone.
I try snd peep a toe out of my comfort zone every now and then 😉 I should do it more often!
Great topic, so very true!
I’m really loving this post! Thank you for sharing
I always enjoy reading your stuff. I have done this often to get over fears that I have. I just spoke about this at work yesterday. I was afraid of public speaking, I took a theater class. I am afraid of flying, I jumped out of a plane. Stepping out of your zone is difficult but it is definitely rewarding.
Agreed. After 9/11 I became paralyzed about flying. The new job in California required a lot of cross-country flying. I had to take a deep breath and get on that first flight to Atlanta for Tony’s course. All of it, including the fire walk, was empowering.
I just love your motivational Monday series too. It always is a great start to my Mondays!
Thank you Lisa! It helps me get started too. I never know what to expect when I start writing it. I always ask for guidance. 🙂
Wonderful post! I know I have to get out of my comfort zone every once and awhile and see what I can do – it’s rewarding! Thanks for the motivational encouragement!
Those really are beautiful photos. I have stepped out of my comfort zone many times in my life–my motto when I’m scared is “She came She saw She conquered”. I just keep repeating that to myself until I realize that once again I have done what no one thought I could!!
Did enjoy the time and thought you’ve put into so much for us here – I will take time to watch the video – thank you so much
Thank you Donna for your generous feedback.
It is so hard for people to “step outside of their comfort zone” but it almost always has to be done. I believe that if you stay in a comfort zone, then you become stagnant. Great post.
It’s so true that we can get so used to our comfort zone. Really needed motivation to get out and continue fighting. 😀
Fire-walking. You rock! Yes, getting out of the comfort zone is the key to keeping on living rather than existing. I just finished writing a post for my blog on same theme before I dropped in here. (Still to post it). And, yes, I’ve seen the Brene Brown video before – she’s such a great speaker. I loved your pictures too by the way.
Great post.
It is sometimes hard to step out of the comfort zone. I love the examples you gave here. Leaving London was huge. Then going from NY to LA was huge too!! Good for you!
I’m planning to get out of my comfort zone by going to Los Angelas to try out auditions etc this August! Are you still there? i’m looking for people that I might know so that I won’t feel so lost!
This is such a great post. My s/o and I talk about expanding our comfort zones all the time as opposed to just breaking out of them every so often.
After reading this post I think a lot about my current situation, I decided to take a step forward moved out of my comfort zone and begin a new challenge. Wish 2015 will be good to me. I will continue to strive to make my dream come true.
I really need to work on stepping out of my comfort zone. Sometimes it’s really hard for me to do though because it’s scary.
I stepped out of my comfort zone when I decided to move thousands of miles away to a new culture, new surroundings, new everything, and away from my family. Surprisingly, like what everybody said, I fit right in. There’s one thing that I miss so bad at home though, the food. 🙂
I really need to work on getting out of my comfort zone. It’s hard because it is indeed comfortable.
Great post….loved it.
I try to step outside my comfort zone as often as possible. Except for public speaking. I don’t do well with public speaking.
Your Monday post always get me motivated for the week to come!! Always the thing I need to hear!
I can’t imagine walking on fire, or glass. I can’t even begin to wrap my head around those people that lay on a bed of nails and then add to it by having bricks or concrete blocks on their chest. Crazy. I know its mind over matter and their is a right way to do it, but not really a risk I want to take. When it comes to stuff like that, perhaps staying in my comfort zone is best.
Stepping out on our comfort zone can give us a much more control over our future. Why? Simply because, we can choose what road to take, no matter how rough it might be.
Inspiring indeed!
Hi Eliz, thanks for the encouraging post. 🙂
Hi Tracy! So good to see you here. 🙂 TY!
I can use all the motivation i can get. I always look forward to your motivation Monday post.
People love staying in their comfort zone because they are afraid of the world out there. I admit it takes very great effort and courage to challenge myself to cross over the line, but at the end, i learned sth new.
Very true, facing our fears often means facing the truth about ourselves or those close to us. And sometimes no matter how how uncomfortable it is, we all have to do it if we want to make progress in our lives.
Life is a continuous processes of you wants, likes and dislikes. Know fully your comfort zone, study and learn of what your passion in life. Exploring outside your comfort zone is also means life. Fernando Lachica
I enjoyed reading the post !
It’s amazing really, how you were able to move from London to New York and still be so great with everything! It’s inspiring and really sets a great example to really step out of the comfort zone and start doing more!
I’ve seen that video before, I love TED videos! This is a great motivation post, 2015 is all about stepping out of your comfort zone. love this post!
I read somewhere the success begins at the end of your comfort zone. When you stay with what is comfortable for you, you can get stuck and remain there. When you want change you need to move and take the risk. 😀 -katrina centeno
Every time you venture out of your comfort zone, you learn something new and important. Just curious, where is that small house in the last picture located?
I’am afraid to level up my position even my boss wants me to level up I always say no. Thingking that my capability is only what I have now and I don’t want to try other high level thing, thanks for sharing this article that gave me motivation.
huh so true, I am really in my comfort zone now, but I want to move to something new and your post just encourage me to move. Thanks
Wow! I loved reading about the walking on fire. One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to get out of my comfort zone more. Hm… Maybe I should try this out? I shudder at the idea. So it’s probably a good one 🙂
This is an awesome post indeed. It is so true we tend to stick with what is familiar to us. This is something I must say I needed to hear at this time. I think we all need to venture out of our comfort zones at some point in our life. Thanks so much for sharing.
I loved the typography on the poster, Who did it?
It’s from the O Magazine website.
I sat open mouthed through that Brene Brown TED talk, she is amazing!
Glad you listened to it. She’s brilliant. TY! 🙂
Yeah.. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. but before you go out of it. make sure to have an open mind.
‘You wouldn’t know what’s on the other side if you wouldn’t step out of your comfort zone.’ I always have this quote in my head… that’s why I took risk and started a travel agency of my own.
Unfortunately for me every time I try to step beyond my comfort zone something really bad happens to me. I understand what you are saying though.
What a motivational post! 🙂
I like the idea of a dream being a creative vision for the future. I try and get out of my comfort zone but it can be hard sometimes. Just got to keep on pushing x