92. Expand Your Comfort Zone

<p><strong>How to Easily Expand Your Comfort Zone</strong></p> <p>What if I told you I'd give you $1,000 to make an important public speech? Would you take the offer? Like most of us, you probably recoiled immediately at the idea, even though it could be lucrative for you! Why didn’t this idea appeal to you?</p> <p>When the very thought of certain activities evokes fear or anxiety within you, it's because they're outside your comfort zone. Public speaking, for example, is outside most people's comfort zone.</p> <p>Your comfort zone is the sphere of activities that you feel comfortable with and that you can accomplish without negative emotions. It also includes people, places, and things that cause only positive thoughts within you.</p> <p><strong>How Important is Your Comfort Zone?</strong></p> <p>Your comfort zone can limit your capabilities and cause you to forsake your dreams and goals, or it can spur you on to great things. In fact, your comfort zone can determine both your personality and your potential for success.</p> <p><em><strong>Many successful people achieve their goals because they have the ability to expand their comfort zone in order to get what they want.</strong></em></p> <p>If you wish to expand your comfort zone, you can mentally condition yourself to be comfortable in new situations so you can overcome your anxiety, achieve your goals, and fulfill your dreams.</p> <p><strong>Here are some tips you can use to expand your comfort zone and help fight your anxiety about certain situations:</strong></p> <ol> <li><strong>Understand your mindset.</strong> Mental conditioning plays a large role in developing your comfort zone. This means that how we form our comfort zones begins in our own mind.</li> </ol> <p>Each of us already has preconceived notions of what may be comfortable and what may not be, and we designate mental guidelines to keep us within our comfort zone.</p> <ul> <li><em>You</em> have chosen your own comfort zone boundaries! <em><strong>Knowing your boundaries is the first step to bei