Comfort Zone

A friend once told me that in life,

“You must get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”

In other words, our beloved
“Comfort Zone” is not our place of permanent residency.

When it comes to growth and comfort, there is a level of sacrifice.

It’s a balance.

Just as if you’ll never see the Eiffel Tower or any number of things if you refuse to leave the comfort of your own home, it is the same with personal experiences and adversity.

You must shed the desire to remain comfortable at all times and challenge yourself to go the distance.

We often confuse familiarity with comfort and allow ourselves to stay in a situation that is no longer benefiting us.

Whether it be a job, a school environment, a relationship, or a state of mind, we get used to how it operates and it becomes familiar.

The problem with that is accepting a minimal output of good energy versus operating at our highest caliber.

Just because something is familiar doesn’t mean you’re actually comfortable with it. You may have just as easily fallen into a routine & or even worse you’re just afraid.

Being familiar does not equate comfort, and comfort does not simply make way for growth.

Only doing what you know & what you know you’re good at, isn’t going to push you to be the best.

It’s okay to start low and work your way up. To put a little pressure on yourself to build character and extend your natural abilities.

If you wish to stay comfortable and are closed off to change, you will sacrifice yourself the knowledge you gain from growth.

However by sacrificing a bit of your comfort to step out on a limb, you gain experience and depth of who you are.

That’s why we must abdicate a level of comfort to succeed.

We must be skeptical and question the things before us all the while believing we are capable of following through.

You must leave your comfort zone sometime. You can’t stay there forever.

Leaving your comfort zone you open your world up to a new spectrum of normal, recognizable, & believable circumstances that while once unheard of, are now things you now actively participate in.

Being uncomfortable does not make you incapable of success, it’s how you can approach that feeling that allows you to thrive.

If you’ve been stuck in the same place or just living around what’s familiar, it might be time for you and your comfort zone to take a little break.

-from a mermaid with love