Comfort Zone Uncomfort

A few days ago I was grumpy and miserable and was talking to a dear and special friend. Lee-Ann was down, depressed, brokenhearted and said she had no reason to live about 9 months ago. I reappeared into her life and began talking about her future, we spoke and chatted and came as close to being a boyfriend and girlfriend can be without being boyfriend and girlfriend. I told her to get out of her comfort zone and do her own thing, resign from her job and just do it.

After heartache and tears and a day spent trying to write a letter of resignation she decided not to quit in the first month of the new year as wanted. In her mind she had made a plan to do it but was in a bit of a comfort zone. After 4 months of being in the comfort zone she had eventually made up her mind, she wasn't going far and she wasn't unhappy but she wanted more. To get more she had to step out of her comfort zone.

On 1st May 2012 Lee-Ann became self-employed as a professional photographer. She is a superb photographer, green to the world of being self-employed and above all in a new comfort zone where she  now knows she has to fend for herself. Amazingly she has had massive support from family, friends and even strangers. She stepped out and is now doing it.

It was Lee-Ann that told me to step out of my comfort zone and just do it, if I wanted success and to be a man I had to I was told. Its a horrible thought to step out of a place of comfort and security but for absolute happiness I know I have to and am doing so - its what I term comfort zone uncomfort and it can apply to all minor and major decisions in your life. If you carrying doing things a similar or the same way you will get similar or the same result every time, if that result is the right result then continue but for many it is not - so change!

To step out of a comfort zone is never easy but it will never kill you, the only way for success and happiness to increase (unless you have enough) is to change.

So today, step out of your comfort zone and get a little uncomfortable.

Don't try it... do it!