Last week I was talking about how your nervous system would like to keep you safe at all costs, which is why creating new habits can feel so hard sometimes.
This week let’s think about your comfort zone.
Your comfort zone is the part of your life in which you feel completely in control. You know how things work, you know what to expect and you know how to deal with any niggles or complications. It’s nice, y’know. Nothing spectacular. But it’s very pleasant, comfortable even.
Alrighty, but here’s the rub.
Growth doesn’t happen in the comfort zone.
Life ticks along in the comfort zone – steady away, nothing to see here.
But I get the feeling you don’t want ‘steady away’. There’s a part of you that yearns for something different. A part of you that is tired and bored of everything as it stands now.
A part of you that is comfortably unfulfilled.
Unsatisfied.
That doesn’t want to eat the same thing on a Friday evening again. That doesn’t want to wear the same jacket, or do the same commute, or have the same conversations…again.
It’s time to step out of your comfort zone.
I don’t mean you should have an ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ moment, move halfway around the world and fall in love with someone unexpected. But also, y’know, yes, maybe that too…
Stepping out of your comfort zone does not require you to leap, jettison, divebomb, catapult or fling yourself forwards with abandon.
Nope, you can literally just step.
Try something new.
Say no thank you to the familiar (after all – you don’t want to send your nervous system into a paroxysm of panic, it’s much more accommodating when you slink your way into the new)
Stepping out of your comfort zone is more about committing to the next evolution of you and taking positive action towards it than it is about shaking up your world like a snowdome (of course – should you feel this way, please do!)
The irony is, whatever it is that lies beyond the comfort zone, isn’t necessarily the discomfort zone – it’s just the vaguely unknown zone. In fact, it’s the taking of the step that’s the most uncomfortable part, that’s why people procrastinate.
And you know what procrastination’s like, you waste more time and energy worrying about doing it, that it actually takes to do the thing, and then you find it wasn’t so bad after all!
If you feel that you could do with some hand holding and persuasion whilst you take that step, why not book a 1 to 1 call with me? My ‘Excuse me, I’m waiting for my Epiphany’ session is about clear action and a bit of magical thinking, it can be an absolute game changer.
You can book your session here. https://courses.carrieekins.co.uk/courses/epiphany
I’m here for ya no matter how big or small the next step looks (or feels) like.
Big love,
Carrie