Comfort Zones

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We all have our comfort zones.
The things we do or choose not to do, the way we do those things, the people we surround ourselves with and yes, even the time at which we do certain things during the day or week ~ they all add to our comfort zone...

For the most part we are happy with our comfort zones. Doing the things we are comfortable doing ~ pretty much because we know hoe to do them and of course also believing that we are reasonably good at doing those things in the way we perhaps have been doing them for years and years... The rhythm of doing our grocery shopping on Saturday, the laundry on Monday and eating our with friends on Thursday ~ it gives us a sense of belonging when we know that there are things in our lives that don’t change much over time...

And that seems to be what it is all about, the predictability of our lives. The sameness of the things we do and the way we do them.
To sum it up; we tend to be quite happily comfortable if those things in our lives do not change.

So as long as we stay within our comfort zones, we are unlikely to start doing new things. Chances are we won’t try and come up with new ways to do the things we have always done in a certain way. And when we eventually would feel pushed out of our comfort zone a little bit ~ we may well react something like: Why? If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it!

All of this means that the comfort zone we like so much and the discovery of new things don’t go together well... And in order to venture out of our comfort zone, we therefore need to have a very good reason.

Reasons to step out of that way we have been living our lives comfortably are of course varied as well as individual. It often has to do with things not working anymore the way we want them to work ~ the way they are ‘supposed to work’. And in order to fix it, in one way or another, we need to change something... Do something new...

Stepping our of our comfort zone can be both scary as well as exciting!
Because no matter which direction we move, we are bound to discover new things, or at least new ways to do the things we have always been doing in a certain way. And once we get used to the fact that there is a whole exciting, adventurous world out there ~ outside of our comfort zone ~ we may also find that we like ‘updating’ the things we do and the way we do them...
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