Why stepping out of your comfort zone is more helpful than you think
how many of you guys
in the past week or so tried something
that you’ve never done before
something that required your courage and
determination
in other words how many of you guys
stepped out of your comfort zone in the
past week
first let’s find out what your comfort
zone actually means
well the cambridge dictionary states
that your comfort zone is a set of
situations
in which you feel comfortable in and in
which your ability
and determination is not being tested
what i think of comfort zone is a
psychological
area of behavioral space where one’s
risk and stress are minimized
so why should you get out of your
comfort zone
well firstly by taking controlled risk
responsibly it allows you to face
challenges
and changes in the future with more
control
and less stress in short
this allows you to get used to these
changes
and secondly by stepping out of your
comfort zone
you enter a state of mind where you use
the stress
created by stepping out positively
and productively in order to achieve a
certain goal
this is also known as the optimal
anxiety state
and third and perhaps the most obvious
reason
is experience that you gain from
stepping out of your comfort zone
the journey of achieving something that
you wouldn’t have
if you stayed within so
now we know what it actually means and
how it benefits us
how do you leave your comfort zone first
you must know where your comfort zone
lies
what do you feel comfortable doing what
makes you scared
knowing your fears is the first step out
of getting your comfort zone
once you acknowledge that start doing
things differently
do the thing that you don’t want to that
you know you can
with dedication and determination do the
thing that will challenge you
and put you out of that comfort zone
however
don’t go chasing for an impossible goal
for example
becoming world famous within a day’s
time
who knows especially in this day and age
the professor brown at the university of
houston
once stated that the biggest mistake
people make
is not acknowledging their fears and
their uncertainty so
let’s not make that mistake and all step
out of our each comfort zone
for me my comfort zone was my family
which i’m sure was for many people as
well
and when i was 10 i had the choice
of staying in korea with my family or
moving to vietnam with my aunt’s family
for better education abroad this meant
that i would be seeing my family
only once a year during my summer
holidays
to step out of my comfort zone was
pretty hard
so much time with my family was going to
be sacrificed
however i made the decision to move out
move away from my comfort zone from my
family
everything in vietnam was completely
different
i went swimming for the first time to
have some tropical fruits i’ve never had
in my life
which some of them i disliked like
papayas and junk food
they tasted disgusting to me but
despite all these new experiences the
ten year
me was feeling very nostalgic and
emotional
i was missing my family however
like all the other times this moment of
time passed
and there i was tall with determination
determination to learn everything i
wanted
and everything i needed
i started as a year five student after
few weeks i’ve arrived and having lived
inside korea my
entire life the language barrier was my
biggest obstacle
everyone was speaking english and i
couldn’t understand
anything so i made korean friends
to help me through the language barrier
explaining everything to me
however after the first semester
i had to move to a new school into a new
environment
with new people and there i’ve made
korean friends as well
who helped me through explaining stuff
to me
and thanks to them i’ve managed to learn
to speak fluent english
within the first six months of arrival
and during those six months i often feel
like giving up
on the edge of going back to the
comfortable place
i call home however
i stay i say i stay strong
and i persevere once you step out of
your comfort zone
you must have perseverance push through
everything slowing you down try to make
you fall
without perseverance you will fail
against these challenges
and end up just where you started
with the skill of perseverance at the
end of the journey
your body releases reward hormones known
as dopamine
which some people consider as the happy
hormone
but in fact it’s what makes you feel
good
rewarding you for you to do it again in
the future
and this will allow you to push further
and achieve your goals faster and easier
in the future
and also by stepping out of your comfort
zone
it allows you to obtain a growth mindset
this means being able to push yourself
being able to try new things
and of course being able to persevere
as the phrase suggests this mind is a
mind that can grow
and develop to become a better version
of yourself
and at the end of the journey the reward
will all be worth it i say
that life is kind of like an obstacle
course
getting over challenges and obstacles to
reach your end goal
you can choose to do a beginner level
course and finish it comfortably
but where’s the success and pride in
that
to feel success and pride you must
choose a course
that is challenging to you right so
my message for you today is it will be
hard to step
out of your comfort zone it will be very
hard
for many people but by doing so
you will achieve far greater than you
could have
by staying within and i ask all of you
today
to try something new something that can
really challenge you
and put you out of your comfort zone and
i promise you
at the end of the day this will benefit
you
for the better here is a quote that i
leave you today with
you need to step out of your comfort
zone in order to grow strong
enough in order to become strong
and grow thank you
you