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5 Steps to Expand Your Comfort Zone

You already know that personal growth comes from getting out of your Comfort Zone. Sometimes you might even feel frustrated by being “stuck” in or by your areas of comfort. The questions, really, are how and when. It’s time to wake up and move up. This article will discuss the five steps to expand your comfort zone.



All of these have an underlying element. Personal desire is the basic component of the success of personal growth. Even situations you have found yourself in that “forced” you to grow required your desire to succeed. You always have the choice to curl into a ball and do nothing, being paralyzed with fear and excuses. Your desire to solve, endure, remove, or eliminate an uncomfortable situation is what created your success.

  1. Plan your steps. Do you want to take a big leap out of your comfort zone? Do you want to inch your way out? Either way is good, if there is a plan. What is the first obstacle you will overcome? Now decide how you are going to increase your level of comfort. The irony is making a plan may be uncomfortable.

  2. Educate yourself. Learn the benefits of increasing your skills and abilities. Find out ways others have done the same thing. It is also important to learn what has been holding you back and decide how rational that restrainer is.

  3. Experience some success. Even if you retreat back into your original comfort zone, you want to know what it feels like to have conquered. Usually, your retreat will not be a full retreat. Success breeds success.

  4. Acknowledge your progress. Take a moment to stop and recognize your new level of comfort. Celebrate if you have experienced significant growth. Enjoy how comfortable you are in this new realm. Journal your struggles and progress.

  5. Encourage others to grow. As your area of comfort increases, reach back and help others succeed. This will anchor you in your expanded comfort zone.

It is common to want to not step out of your comfort zone. After all, you’re comfortable. Implement these steps to control the growth of your area of comfort.

Road closed barrier. Dirt road among the agricultural fields. Closed Zone.

The boundary around your comfort zone is an imaginary line.

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