Operating Outside the Zone
We all have our comfort zones and that’s a good thing because they keep us from dying of stress.
The problem with comfort zones is that to learn anything truly new means getting outside of your comfort zone and that’s tough to do. And the more time you spend outside the zone, the more stressed out you feel. Eventually, if you keep feeling stressed, you may decide to abandon your excursion outside of the zone and you go back to familiar territory where you feel safe. This is one of the reasons why it’s so hard to significantly change your life voluntarily. Moving to a new city. Getting a new job. Creating a new career. Those sorts of things are incredibly stressful and at least at first, you’re spending all your time outside of your comfort zone.
The good news is that if you’re able to hang in there and sort it out, the new territory will eventually become familiar and it becomes part of your comfort zone.
This is what has been happening with my journey into internet marketing. I was out of my comfort zone from the first day and eventually the stress of not knowing what I was doing got to me and I started to lose my way. I lost my focus and started wandering in circles. But I realized what I was doing and I got back into following the training program step by step and within the last few days it has all finally started to come together. I finally reached the tipping point where it all started to make sense and I could see the forest instead of just the chaos of the trees. The wasteland outside my zone is now starting to grow over with the warm soft fuzz of understanding and comfort and I’m very pleased.
Never give up. Never lose hope.
The man who will not accept defeat can never be defeated.
