I’ve come to understand that the comfort zone isn’t always a happy place.
Over the years, I’ve come to understand that the comfort zone isn’t always a happy place.
Yes, it’s a place of ‘comfort’ but it’s also a place where goals don’t get achieved and dreams never happen. The comfort zone inhibits our desires and passions from turning into reality.
Yes, change can be terrifying because it involves taking risks. But our lives will only change when we become more committed to our dreams than we are to our comfort zones.
Fear lives just outside of comfort. And beyond this fear lives growth and achievement.
There’s an alternate universe where I never left Darfield, New Zealand. There is also one where I really wanted to start my first business, and even though I thought I had an amazing idea, I never did. Where I didn’t feel the pressure of closing my first sale, and I stayed neutral, idle, and as unhappy and unstimulated as I had been growing up and working as a waitress in Australia. Itching for more, but unwilling to stand in my fire and face the fear that was necessary to forge change.
It’s an alternate universe of regrets.
A life of ‘what ifs’.
No one ever looks back on their life from their deathbed and wishes they didn’t travel, try a new experience, or live their life to the fullest.
I still feel fear. All the time. With every success and every year that passes brings on more business, a larger team, more offices and bigger overheads. More responsibility.
Some days I feel BOLD as hell. Like I can achieve anything in life, and I’m making it happen.
And then there are the days when I struggle to get out of bed. When I wake up and I get a rush of overwhelm (yes, even now) because I’m thinking about all my responsibilities, a big project at work, a problem I’m trying to solve.
Or I’m thinking of the huge dreams I aspire to fulfil, and that little voice in my head is nagging on about the reasons why it’s ‘stupid’, ‘unrealistic’ or why it ‘will never work’.
But I know not to listen. That’s just a voice that’s afraid of change.
