How to Explode from Your Comfort Zone
By: Trevor Mahoney
Tags: Ideas, Motivation, Self Improvement, Tips, Self

How to Explode from Your Comfort Zone

Learn how to never settle.

There’s a reason it is so tempting to stay in our comfort zones. The impossibility of running into the unknown makes life easy.

Except life isn’t meant to be easy. Life is meant to make you grow, it’s meant to challenge you.

As one of my favorite quotes, by Neal Donald Walsch, states:

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The best way to grow as a person is to constantly expand your comfort zone and never settle. But how do we do this?

Let’s dive in…

Start Saying ‘Yes’

Try going a week without saying no to anything, within reason of course.

Most of the time it isn’t the fear of a new scenario that makes us hesitant to do something, but rather our own laziness or shyness.

Start saying yes to activities and I promise it will become addicting.

By sacrificing this bit of control over what you’re doing, you allow others to take the lead on what’s going to happen.

Start Talking to Strangers

Believe it or not, most people are actually really nice.

When I say talk to strangers, I don’t mean interrupting someone in the middle of a conversation, but if someone waiting for the train next to you is by themselves, then don’t be afraid to strike up a friendly conversation.

Along with being a great way to practice your social skills, you’ll find that the things people have to share are fascinating.

After all, everybody has a story, you just need to be willing to listen.

Make Trying New Activities a Habit

Pick a day of the week, any day of the week it doesn’t matter. I want you to dedicate yourself to trying something new on that day.

Whether it be as simple as asking a new friend out to a meal or as crazy as dropping everything and going on a backpacking trip, an important aspect of escaping your comfort zone is constant change.

By making change a habit, you can inadvertently trick yourself into constantly getting out and trying something new.

Start Small, Go Big

Part of the reason we have issues trying new things is because of how daunting they can seem. A great way around this is to simply start small.

After all, you don’t just decide to hike Mount Everest you have to train for months before you’re ready.

Escaping your comfort zone is the same.

Prove to your mind that you can handle trying new things and it will slowly seem easier to take bigger risks and bigger challenges on.

Surround Yourself With ‘Yes’ People

Similar to my first piece of advice, make friends with people who are risk-takers and dare-devils. Sometimes you don’t get out of your comfort zone because you simply don’t do anything.

Having a group of friends who constantly go on trips or do crazy things is a great method to expand your limits because they will invite you along.

Don’t throw away your old friend group, but pick up some new ones as well.

Make Spur of the Moment Decisions

Stop attempting to plan everything out.

Let some decisions happen completely on a whim. Sometimes my friends and I will put what we all want for dinner into a random phone app and see which choice pops up.

The best way to get out of your comfort zone is to sometimes give in to the random nature of life.