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Hello friends ,family, pals, steem citizens hows your weekend going ?. Hope it going smoothly and most of all hope you are having more than enough time to rest before the week begins.
I got inspired to write this post sometime ago when I meet a tailor who had been sowing the same old styles since the first day I meet him. His a wonderful person and has a lot of talent that I know of but fail to improve on his skill all because his either fail or scared of trying something new so he goes in circle doing and doing the same old styles over and over again. Over the years customers come and go as they are drawn because of his quality and good work but they don't stay because they keep seeing the same old same old, nothing new no creativity. A lot of us today gave similar charcterstics in our life, you might not be a handy job person you might be a civil servant, job owner, banker basically any other professionand still be in your comfort zone. How many of us fail daily to take that bold step of doing something outside the box, something epic, something creative, something that has not been seen before.
Comfort zone can be defined as a behavioral space where your activities and and behavior fit a routine or pattern that minimizes risk and stress. In simple words comfort zone is where one feels at rest and peace. With this definitions one would understand that stepping out you comfort zone is stepping into a place of uncertainty, risk. It's a situation where you decide to leave that arena of stead performance,easy going life to that arena of new and challenging task that would give you an optimal performance. And I must say I most cases it worth it. It just like playing the same musical line, notes, cords over and over again you become bored if you are someone like me a want to try something new. Theirs this feeling you get when you achieve a new task and besides there's no fun when the plane is on auto pilot the real fun is when you take charge.
The truth is that in our Adamic nature we have been shaped to be in a natural comfort zone. If the body has its way it would love to sleep, have fun and eat all the time. So when we try to leave our comfort zone is always difficult as the mind can be willing but the body is not. But we should know that significant success comes only when you push yourself to the limit. Yes is not bad to be in your comfort zone as a matter of fact it's cool because no stress no risk. But if you want to be outstanding, to be at the peak of your field you must leave your comfort zone. Nobody becomes successfully leaving there comfort zone. A perfect example is Mark Zuckerberg of facebook he had a perfect life in school, but he felt he had something more to offer and school had little or nothing to offer he dropped out. Am sure a lot of people would have termed it a wrong move but today a lot of youth want to drop out of school to follow their dreams. The truth is that, it was not easy as he had to work extra hard, but at the end it paid off all beacuse he left his comfort zone. Another example of someone who left his comfort zone was Edson Arantes do Nascimento popularly know as Pele. Pele was the best player in his village but when he got to the academy he struggled to fit in as the had a more organized pattern of playbhe knew nothing about. Determined to be successful he did midnight trannings on shots, freekicks, penalty just to be a better player, he also pushed himself to the limit. One thing successful people have in common is that they all left their comfort zones to an arena of possibilities.
You can only get freedom, passion, success, financial balance, purpose when you leave your comfort zone so why not take that bold step today. The hard truth is that it is hard, difficult to leave but it's worth it. Enjoy the rest of your weekend
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