Try Out New Things

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

Have you ever wondered why most of the new things you try won't simply work? Yet, you go and attempt the same thing somewhere else, in a new place and suddenly BAM, it works? That is because you have fallen into the power of getting out of your comfort zone! 

Your comfort zone, simply put, is an area where you find yourself most comfortable. For example, I am a football player and I constantly train at my home gym. I know everything there is to know about the gym and I find myself doing my best. However, when I try new training methods or whatever, it is a really slow process. So my coach advises me to train at another gym with other trainers. I feel very uneasy at this suggestion because I don't know how the other trainer operates the gym and I don't know his regiment style. Yet, when I go over to the other gym to train, I find his style very easy and worthwhile. Why? Because I'm receiving new methods of training and my learning processes grow exponentially! 

Staying in your comfort zone can only get you so far. You can always still thrive in it, but it is necessary to engage yourself outside of it because you won't be getting any new sources of information as long as you refuse the outside sources. It is a perfectly natural process to get out of your comfort zone to learn new things. Here is a link to a FORBES article about someone stepping out of their comfort zone, engaging themselves in unfamiliarity, and achieving what they might not have achieved before. 

So remember, step out of the old, and take in the new!