What you are missing by staying in your comfort zone

Although his name is not the most suitable representation, the comfort zone it is one of the greatest dangers when it comes to progressing as an individual and developing a life plan.

What is the comfort zone?

The comfort zone is a behavioral state in which the individual remains in a situation of neutral anxiety, to simply follow a series of behaviors in order to have the minimum level of return without a sense of risk.

This means that the individual will avoid any type of effort or situation that makes him feel uncomfortable or with which he is not familiar; thus avoiding the possible and diverse rewards that you can get in your daily life, whether in a work or personal environment.

Why is it so important to get out of the comfort zone?

Because outside of it you will have the best experiences of your life and you will contribute a lot to your personal growth.

Maybe you've always wanted to go around the world, learn to play an instrument, try to get a better job than you have, or study something you love. Why haven't you done it yet?

Well, your comfort zone may be playing tricks on you, drawing you into it and not letting you out. The point is that anything that our brain does not know, he's going to be afraid of him. Our instincts want to keep us safe and in the face of an unusual situation (such as living in the foreigner or make a radical change in our life) will sound the alarm for us to return to our area of comfort.

But You must know that the most wonderful things in life happen, precisely, outside of it.

Personal growth; our companion out of the comfort zone

Have a source of motivation, learn to be tolerant with ourselves and with others, understand the needs that others have, understand what they feel, accept our failures and learn from them, always find new solutions to our day-to-day problems, live new experiences and above all never stop learning, regardless of the activity in which the student is developing learning; these are the direct consequences of optimal personal growth.

Personal growth occurs as a life project; It is a plan that although it may not be quick and instantaneous, in the long term it may be the best way to progress as an individual and understand how to live life fully, turning weaknesses into strengths, achieving harmonization between our thoughts and Actions.

Increasing our knowledge and understanding of what surrounds us can allow us to take the first steps on the path of personal growth.

For example: learning a new language allows us to open the doors to enter various parts of the world, if we travel we will become more tolerantWe will learn from different cultures, we will become much more sociable and we will learn to communicate with the world in a much more efficient way.

Promote activities in our life that are synonymous with progress, is the main object to develop as upright individuals who have always been in constant personal growth. In short, if there is something you have always wanted to do, now is the time. You never know what will be triggered next.

How coaching helps us get out of our comfort zone

The coaching is defined as a method that consists of teaching, instructing, training and accompanying a person or to a group of people in order to meet their goals or develop specific skills for the activity in which progress is sought.

The coaching process (phases to achieve the objectives)

Coaching takes place in 5 easy steps, a good instructional method is based on the following:

• Observation of different points of view: this is essential since the person receiving the training will find solutions and achieve allow the individual to choose between the different options he has to achieve the goals proposals.
• Awareness in the given situation: the coach will show the individual the different choices he makes and the consequences of these, giving him specific tools to choose consciously and in an optimal way.
• It is extremely important to set goals. Without clearly defined goals, the goal to be achieved will not be clear to the individual or the coach.
• Take the necessary actions to achieve this goal: Simply defining objectives is not enough; They have to be carried out following a time to do them, establishing a good schedule for their development
• See that the plan is on the right track and that results are obtained; if not, the fault must be checked and corrected

If you are lost and do not know where to start changing your life, you have two options: the first is to hire a good coach, but it may not be a profitable option for you because you simply cannot financially allow. Even so, there is a second option, to become your personal coach yourself. reading self-help personal development books.

Two coaching books that teach us the benefits of leaving the comfort zone

There are many well-known books on the subject, but far from repeating the same books that surely You may have already heard about it, I am going to recommend two, which may not be so well known, but which have a very powerful message that give:

"Coaching for success: the 4 steps to change your life", by Marina R Pinto

From Marina R. I paint, a Spanish author, addresses each of the elements that make up personal coaching in a way so simple and digestible, that it will become your best tool to become a person different. The reading is quite agile and is written in the second person, which makes it quite a fun book. Talk about reconverting your life in 4 steps:

Step 1: Become a more optimistic person

Negative thoughts and attitudes are the first predators of dreams. Therefore, it is important start thinking more positively and start being more optimistic, no matter what circumstances you are going through.

And although it is easier said than done, this book provides the reader with the tools to learn to be more positive, specifying the differences between thought, emotion and feeling, among other aspects, such as the influence that our own beliefs have on ourselves.

Step 2: Clear your life of everything that hinders you

Negative thoughts, counterproductive emotions, bad habits... In this part he proposes you to eliminate everything that does not do you good and prevents you from fulfilling your dreams. He will also talk about the fear of failure and how to deal with it if it appears.

Step 3: Be proactive

Without action you will not be able to clear the way to achieve your dreams. This is the life lesson that the third step draws on. In this part the author will talk about how to organize yourself to plan your goals, what steps you have to take, techniques of planning to take extra time for your projects, and most importantly, how to get out of your comfort zone to start your new life.

Step 4: The path is more important than the destination

The unspoken message of this fourth step lies in the importance of understanding what is most important to fulfill our dreams. Obviously achieving a desired goal is very rewarding, but it is even more so to realize that Along the way, after overcoming obstacles and finding solutions, we have grown as people. The main objective of the last chapter is to invite reflection on our own actions.

If you are interested, you can purchase the book at this link

"30 days: change your habits, change your life", by Marc Reklau

Marc reklau In this book he proposes you to acquire a new habit every day to help you start to walk through the world in a different way. The book consists of about 90 short chapters, very easy and quick to read. The topics it addresses are very similar to those in the "Coaching for Success" book: negative thoughts, achievement of objectives, new habits to contribute to our psychological health, personal growth, etc.

To buy the book, click on this link