Promoting Health and Wealth - Let's Get Out of Our Comfort Zones

Getting into a comfort zone, it seems to me, has almost become a way of life for many organizations and individuals. Organizations want more customers, more profits, more stability and then become uncomfortable when there is too much business or more demand attention or new or different services. Next, let's take that to the individual level.The individual wants more time off, more money, more feelings of comfort and much, much less stress. Then they wonder why the relationship isn't working, why they aren't able to launch a new idea or project, why they don't get more sales, why they can't gain a promotion or why they aren't less stressed and healthier.

While, I do believe there needs to be a certain level of comfort and mastery with relationships, projects, business, or even health, I am firmly convinced that we are wired for more stress than for which we give ourselves credit. Yes, with more tension, stress and effort there is increasing discomfort and actual pain, but discomfort and pain are symptoms to be aware of, not to be totally avoided. What can we do to help us move out of our comfort zone, allow us to live with discomfort and dis-ease and not go into full blown disease?

For the next 30 days, I'm going to research and investigate how people do and don't get in or out of their comfort zones. What are some tips and techniques that they have that are useful to pass on.

But let me start by sharing some basic understanding, descriptions, definitions and thoughts regarding the infamous comfort zone.

Thomas Edison once wrote, “We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.”

Wikipedia describes the comfort zone in this way: "One's comfort zone refers to the set of environments and behaviours with which one is comfortable, without creating a sense of risk."

J. Roth wrote in an article entitled "Break out of your Own Comfort Zone to Achieve Success in January 2010," "Humans are wired to seek comfort, and as a result much of daily life is focused around familiar patterns and habits. When something threatens to break those habits, we feel uncomfortable and nervous. These negative feelings are easily avoided by continuing to live life the same way, rejecting change. If given the chance to enter uncharted territory, a situation where life’s future is unpredictable, people often prefer not to change, clinging to a comfortable situation."

Learning more about the comfort zone is already intriguing me. Now I want to learn more about what it will take to move out and beyond what is limiting me.

What about you - any thoughts about the infamous Comfort Zone?

All the best in health and wealth,

Laura