Good luck!

A comfort zone describes that feeling you get when you feel safe, comfortable and easy about doing something.

For example, my friend John Doe works for a bank. It’s a high pressure job but has good perks. He is used to his role in the workplace.

John’s recently been offered an opportunity to start his own business. Although he is a very competent professional, he is scared and worried about how different his life will be in his own business. This fear is terrifying him and stopping him from exploring this opportunity.

His comfort zone is his current high pressure job. He knows his job and he’s used to it. Although he wants to try something new, his comfort zone is holding him too tightly, giving him excuses to not start his own business.

To expand his comfort zone so that having his own business is not so scary, research could be a good start. Talking to people, finding out some realities of what it is like to have a business.

This would help him think rationally about his opportunity so that any decision he makes comes from a place of strength and not a place of fear.

Does this help to answer your question Yael?

Thanks for commenting and best wishes with all the changes you’re making.

I don’t think I understand what you mean by comfort zone, but I certainly know what the stress is like!
Can you give me an example?
Thanks!
Yael

Thanks for stopping by.

I have experienced exactly what you have written here. Learning how to break free from self-limiting comfort zones is (in my opinion) the master skill of success.

Thanks for a well-written reminder.