Get out of Your Comfort Zone: Accept Mental and Physical Stress

Welcome activities that get you out of your comfort zone. Frequently we dread doing activities that force us out of our comfort zone, maybe because we do not feel as adept at that activity and prefer to do tasks that seem to reinforce our strengths and make us feel good about ourselves. Out-of-comfort-zone activities should be welcomed as great learning and growth opportunities, stretching your capacity to deal with new things and new situations, rather than seen as depressing situations that put us on the back foot. Frequently, too, many out-of-comfort-zone activities are things that we need to do rather than choose to do and hence we may feel a natural aversion to these activities. Imagine you are a General making battle plans. Define your objectives. Understand the pressures of war, understand that mental and physical stress is a natural accompaniment to combat. The war will go on regardless, it is your duty to fight it well. In fighting we are also learning, to deal with the increasing pressures of combat. Treat that as a challenge. Plan and foresee problems and difficulties in order to defend against them. And remember, application is always tougher than theory.