An extended comfort zone, oddly enough, is not always a boon. A person has the ability to adapt to everything, including negative living conditions. Sometimes the comfort zone includes such concepts as unloved work, lack of finances, small living space, and so on. A person gets used to living without a gap in front, and he is quite comfortable in his small cozy world. He calmly puts up with annoying factors. But that means stagnation. A person in such a situation does not develop. And for development, he needs to destroy his comfort zone (change jobs, sell an apartment, start a business, etc.) in order to create another, but at a higher level. In what situations should you do this?
Instructions
Step 1
You feel that you are capable of more. Your job does not give you the opportunity to develop. You are stuck in one position for 3-5-10 years and do not see any further vertical or horizontal career opportunities. You have such a boss that you do all the work for him, and you get much less. You feel that you have good potential, but you cannot realize it in the framework of your current activities. Would you like to go freelance or start your own business, but work gets in the way … Ask yourself the question: what keeps you in your comfort zone? High salary? Maybe you are afraid to "burn out" and be left without means of subsistence? If you don’t dare, you don’t know. Afraid your family won't support you? Talk to the "other half". In any case, it cannot continue this way, because soon you will feel or already …
Step 2
… you feel that you are degrading. You have begun to read less and communicate with people, spend more time in front of the TV or computer in search of entertainment, have become more harsh and categorical in judgments, forget basic things, feel that it is harder for you to fulfill your work duties. You start to get annoyed by "high-flown conversations", and gossip and rumors arouse genuine interest. It's time to sound the alarm! You run the risk of becoming an "office plankton" or a hard worker-drinker. Break your comfort zone and start living in a new way. What's in the way? Usually what you like to roll down. It's easier than taking care of yourself and constantly improving yourself. Beware, otherwise you will soon notice that …
Step 3
… You are constantly depressed. It's not even depression. It's worse than depression. You are annoyed by household chores, colleagues, your job, your home, your children, your wife or your husband … You snap at any question or soak yourself off. And yet, you are quite comfortable. You justify your inaction by saying that "everything will be worse anyway." People around you suffer from you, and you (albeit not consciously) revel in it - for someone worse than you. You need to find the strength in yourself and smile. Then you need to change your thinking and lifestyle. Otherwise, soon you will begin to make excuses that …
Step 4
… you are bored, tired. You are tired of going to work every day, looking after your home and yourself. You are not interested in anything new, moreover, you treat everything new either apathetically or aggressively. You just start to go with the flow. You refuse to make decisions and take fate into your own hands. In this situation, you are most comfortable. Just know that it is very difficult to get out of this state. And soon you will catch yourself thinking that …
Step 5
… you do not think about further prospects, you are afraid to take risks. You are comfortable in your "nest", no one bothers you. You are satisfied with your life, family, work, you have come to terms with the inevitability and do not expect gifts from life. Congratulations: indifference broke your personality! But maybe something else is worth changing? And break your comfort zone, your shell and be reborn?
