Your comfort zone is your situation where you feel easy and safe; and in other words, comfort zone is a steady way of working that needs minimal efforts done and gives just okay results. If you choose to stay within your comfort zone for ever, you can never improve or succeed. Stay too long in your comfort zone often limits your opportunities and capabilities. You will always be stuck in your career and life if you never take concrete steps to challenge yourself towards success. And real success comes when you balance out your comfort zone and do what is necessary for your success even if it’s uneasy. For that, adopt a “have to attitude” instead of “want to attitude”.
Successful people are those who spend most of their time outside their comfort zone, taking risks to enter into learning zone. There, they learn new skills required to take on bigger challenges. Therefore, successful leaders are self-made, developed over time, skilled people who step out of their comfort zones. You can learn about leadership skills here. This article will guide you to balance your comfort zone for real success, and following are some guidelines.
Real success begins at the edge of your comfort zone when you put yourself in learning new skills and taking new challenges. Magic happens here. You have to leave behind your comfort zone and enter a zone where you build your success, grow your leadership skills and attain your goals. You can never grow if you don’t spend time in learning new things. When you have decided to become successful in any way; start balancing your comfort zone by either expanding it or stepping out of it.
• Set your concrete goals that you want to achieve and then break them into pieces. Try to step forward, outside your comfort zone, in a new field and learn something new and unfamiliar before. Remain persistent and don’t get back to your comfort zone, instead do more and more struggle.
• Write challenging plans on a piece of paper and keep a check on your achievement levels. Become accountable of what you do towards your success. This will give you encouragement to accomplish something when you will become your own examiner.
• Remain positive and struggle to replace your negative thoughts to positive ones. Change your limited thought patterns and concentrate on positive aspects of life, which will drive your behavior and feelings to a happy side as well. The power of optimism will not only nourish your mind but also will freshen up your body and soul. It will definitely drive towards your success.
• Conquer your fears. Fears are just stupid emotions that are rarely based on truths. You have to expand your comfort zone to new things, hobbies, jobs etc. Take a bold step to enter your fear zone where you will first feel awkward but with time, struggle and your strong concentration, you will learn to pass through that zone and that will be the point of your success. On your way, do not stop and pay attention to misleading distractions.
• Most importantly, choose someone your mentor wisely. You mentor will guide you how to take a bold step to get out of your comfort zone; assign you some new tasks that are unfamiliar to you; set your challenging goals; record your achievements; assist you attain higher levels; point out your weak points honestly; and help you overcome your weaknesses and achieve your success goals.
Concluding, real success can only and only be achieved if you are ready to either leave behind your comfort and ease zone or expand your comfort zone to such extent that you don’t feel new things as a risky challenge. You are always ready to put yourself into challenging situations where you happen to try many new things and then you can get opportunities to settle yourself in any other job, apart from your current job. Think differently and show your inner skills and capabilities in your area of interests that can become your real success. Learn more about principles of success in our other article here.