Comfort Zone is a beautiful state to be in. You would not realize it because it takes a lot of effort to understand your present state. However everyone needs a reality check in life and comfort zone is one of the impressive indicators to help us gauge that.  How far we go in life depends upon how often we achieve our comfort zone and move on in life. The journey of life is a mixture of success and failure and comfort zone is always an intermediate period between any those two states. The realization of its existence is in itself an important achievement in life.

 

A comfort zone has many connotations. Mostly it is considered as hindrance to growth because the zeal to succeed gets replaced by love for your present status. The fact that many people spent years and years in their comfort zone, because of fear of failure, in it-self justifies the importance of this concept.

 

Big Question now is what is comfort zone, how to realize our state and what to do with it.

 

Just ask yourself some simple questions

1)    Are you happy with your job even if you have not risen in ranks within your company

2)    Are you happy with your salary even if it has not increased since long?

3)    Are you happy with your job even if you have not learnt a single new thing in recent years?

Let’s ask this question from different angle

1)    Are you happy with your present standard of living?

2)    Are you happy the way you are fulfilling the dreams of your family?

3)    Are you happy the way you have progressed in your career?

 

If the answer to all above Question is No and you have not still done anything about it then you are in your Comfort Zone.

According to Wikipedia- “The comfort zone is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk”

 

Now a Simple Question, Why you have not done anything about the comfort zone

1)    Fear of Risk

2)    Fear of Losing your present status

3)    Fear of Failing

 

Whatever your answer can be, the truth remains that you are presently living in your Comfort Zone. This makes your status much easy to comprehend.

 

On the contrary, just like a coin has two sides, same way Comfort Zone has two faces too.

There is no harm if you are living in a comfort zone. Basically, it indicates that you have struggled in past to achieve a particular position.  So

1)    So worked hard to get a promotion

2)    You salary is way above and inline to your needs

3)    You think you need to get some experience before its time to move on.

In effect you have achieved what you wanted and now you are enjoying it fully.

It is a Human Nature.

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However the beauty of “Comfort Zone” lies in

1)    Striving to achieve the comfort zone

2)    Enjoying the comfort zone

3)    Getting restless and moving to next target.

Yes there is no harm even if you are in your comfort zone. But if you have till now enjoyed it and celebrated your success than it is the time to move on. It is time to look for your new target and work towards it.

So the cycle should go like

Get Restlessà Get Success à Enjoy Comfort Zone àGet Restless à Get Success

Pick your status and strive towards next

Try it

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