The comfort zone is a nice comfy place we all love to dwell time and time again as humans. This was nature’s cure for hard work. From here, we can find relief from the excesses of life. It may even feel as if you’re an island to yourself; and therefore going through life at your own pace. However, it is also the very spot that holds mankind back from achievement. That is why we need to find a functional balance.
The Necessary Evil
The Comfort Zone is a necessary evil. Whether we like it or not; we must face the facts of psychology. Other people’s comfort zones are our nasty advantage. Perhaps we succeed best when our enemies and competitors sleep or rest on their oars. How we wish they hold back any time they want to out do us.
Consider thieves and robbers. They may cause the national crime rate to fall drastically by sleeping a little more than usual. Unconsciously, the comfort zone could make the people around you fail to act; producing a window of opportunity that softens your own strides in life. Amazing isn’t it?
The Best Way To Tackle The Comfort Zone
But we need to get on the other side of the comfort zone. On the winning side. By putting your best foot forward, you can win this psychological warfare. Or in our case the money mindset battle. The Best way is to activate your super identity. Other methods out there may or may not work. There are countless synthetic remedies out there today that may produce temporal results. Let’s take a close look at the real deal.
Activate Your Super Identity
This is the intrinsic you. The organic child that has the spirit of relentlessness. Have you seen a baby quit trying to learn how to walk? Or getting tired from crying for food? Nada! A baby will be consistent and relentless until they get what they want. This is the drive of survival.
Now how can we get back that baby edge we lost along the way? We have to believe that our lives depend on what we’re striving for. To achieve financial freedom, we must discover for ourselves, that the utility of money goes beyond food, shelter, and clothing. Money solves problems. So, money must be multiplied to solve more problems. Your comfort zone could also be a big barrier to investing in stocks.
I know some folks may not be comfortable with the idea of focusing on money all the time. That’s ok. You can focus on the passion to solve problems for others; (your boss, your customers, etc) and let money be placed only as a distant end result.
How I Escaped The Comfort Zone
I just found something I could do, that I could get better at overtime. Unfortunately It had nothing to do with work or business at the time. I got in through a fitness endpoint. I wasn’t always good with sports, but I knew I could solve problems. So I set out to work on myself and drafted a simple plan.
I was pretty much out of shape a few years ago, so I set a goal to run around a soccer pitch once. I did it believing I could do. So the next goal was to run 2 laps, then more; until I tried my first mile run. Five years later, I’m a half marathon specialist. I now do an average of 20 miles of multiple base runs each week. Meaning, I hit the road 2 or 3 times a week and let my GPS tracker log about 20 miles of sweet pain within my city.
This simple incremental dedication is now a part of my mindset. The weekly run is not easy, but for some funny reason, I tell me self over and over that it is. I’m beginning to transmute the virtues gained from that discipline into other areas of my life – including business, finance and relationships.
That is the very mindset shift that enabled me get started with this blog (however imperfect it starts out), and pursue it step by step. I treat my weekly runs and by blog as body parts. They’ve become vital to my existence and I cannot easily dispense with them.
Other Methods That Defeat The comfort Zone
The Cookie Jar rule or theory is an impressive mental hack example. It states that all your achievements, great or small are kept hidden away at the back of your mind. And if you need motivation to accomplish anything new, you go straight into that proverbial cookie jar and remind yourself about what you’ve conquered in the past.
This is a sure stepping stone to help you push through any mental limits fogging up your ability to see your goals and tasks achieved. You don’t have to be an ex Navy SEAL to have the most functional cookie jar (See David Goggins take on the cookie jar strategy). The mind will work with any sort of achievement or accomplishment of the smallest tasks effectively completed well from your past. You only need incremental pressure to see it through.
Interesting Books That Can Help
Books are a great store of wisdom hands-down. You just have to sift through the fluff and find the golden nuggets. Take a bit of time to check out the book’s review online and weigh the author’s psyche, to get yourself a great piece of material written about curing the comfort zone.
1) Atomic Habits – by James Clear
THE BOOK: Atomic Habits is very precise in its delivery of what to do, and how to do it. It will surely help you overcome the comfort zone syndrome therapeutically. Written by James Clear, it’s quite comprehensive and focused.
2) Can’t Hurt Me – by David Goggins
THE BOOK: Can’t Hurt Me demonstrates the vast untapped ability we humans have, but yet we struggle to get by in our walk through life. The fittest man in America tells the story of his troubled childhood. Full of abuse, poverty, depression, and every known disadvantage that could hinder a human being’s prospects of success.
3) Never Finished – by David Goggins
THE BOOK: Never Finished is a follow up and conclusive installment of David Goggins’ Can’t Hurt Me book. It contains his raw narratives, stories, achievements that will motivate you to trying harder in your own ambitions.
4) Iron Habits of Financial Freedom – by Simon Quayson
THE BOOK: Iron Habits of Financial Freedom was published in 2021. It contains unbreakable personal finance habits that a person could adopt to break the comfort zone chains keeping most people from pursuing financial freedom. The very same habits I’m using today.
5) Search Further Online
Search the web for a book drop related to overcoming the Comfort Zone trap. Amazon will definitely give you a list of good reads. Social Media is also a great way to start. Blogs such as this one will list the gems, and also to very tools by which you could mine them.
Create An Action Plan Or An Activity Mandate
Draw an official plan to break free from the comfort zone demons. Make it a life mandate and it will eventually create a paradigm shift. Make it the ultimate item on your Bucket List. It has to be like an existing body part for it to make sense.
Practice It
Nothing sticks unless you practice practice practice. There is a tool called Pomodoro that helps you with setting a timer to help you complete important tasks for the day. If you can make small sums of progress each hour, you’re well on your way to achieve weekly objectives that end up completing monthly goals you have set for yourself.
Habitualize It
When something becomes a habit, it means that we want to treat it like an essential body part from now onward. I cannot stress this theory enough. You need to schedule it. Make it a high priority habit. Perhaps let if follow some important daily routine, like taking a shower or brushing your teeth in the morning. This is a neat way to delete the comfort zone you’re so accustomed to.
Clone It
When you clone the basic achievement virtue from a well completed task, you can let it spread to other areas of your life. Would it be easy? Not always – but it’s attainable when you believe in yourself. But it can be done. I wouldn’t be here typing this if it didn’t happen for me – using the exact same guideline. For example, you can use a cooking skill to transfer that culinary grit of late night baking to winning in competitive athletics. Its sounds far fetched, but its good example.
Breaking the Comfort Zone Chains – The Afterthought
It is becoming more popular nowadays to ditch the comfort zone syndrome. But we are hard pressed with getting it over with – by another native human deficiency called procrastination. Building grit using our super identity is one thing, and being able to transmute or translate it to another area is also another.
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