Most of us live in our comfort zones. This may sound like a sweeping statement but who doesn’t like to feel comfortable in a safe familiar warm place. But guess what? Life wasn’t meant to be that way, particularly if you are someone who wants to move forward in your life and achieve something that may appear difficult.
If that burning desire to achieve a goal did not push you forward in the direction you want to go, you might decide to give up! So how do we move ourselves from our comfort zone into the stretch zone, because that is what happens when you decide to move and act on a goal. Also, something interesting happens when we stretch and reach for what we desire or want to achieve.
Mandela once said, “As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give people permission to do the same . As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others”.
This sounds life a win-win situation to me. As we reach forward, we inspire others to do the same through the energy that we emanate. If someone had told me that one day I would be online publishing a blog I would have said “your joking”. But here I am and why?
Everyone has a purpose to fulfil on this planet. Something that they were born to do. But what sometimes happens is we receive messages from friends or family that take root in our minds where they might stay for years. They are then replayed like a recorded message. But it doesn’t have to remain this way, we can move out of this stuck state, out of our comfort zone into the stretch zone. Each new morning we have an opportunity to start again, to try a different approach with new ideas. Lynda Field, author of ‘Weekend Confidence Coach’ said that change:
“always feels risky” but “we only attract success when we are ready to step out of our comfort zone“.
The alternative is to stay in a stuck state, stay in our warm cosy comfort zone. I know what I would choose. What would you choose?
What is real confidence and how do you get it? 