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A good portion of the things you want in life is outside your comfort zone.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.
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Shannon L. Alder
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Sometimes it is good to be in uncomfortable situations because it is in finding our way out of such difficulties that we learn valuable lessons.
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Idowu Koyenikan (Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability)
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How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
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Germany Kent
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Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.
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Rashedur Ryan Rahman
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The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.
If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things donโt come from comfort zones.
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Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
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Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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Even the smallest changes in our daily routine can create incredible ripple effects that expand our vision of what is possible.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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I will not allow my mistakes of the past compromise my hope for the future.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.
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Seth Godin (Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?)
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You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.
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Lights Poxlietner
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Without being push to the wall, we will have remained in our comfortable zone. But this circumstance challenges us to find the courage to move on.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (On Eagles Wings:Rise)
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A healthy attitude is contagious; let others catch it.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.
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Orrin Woodward
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Discomfort may be a doorway; donโt run from it.
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Joseph Deitch (Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life)
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Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.
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Charles F. Glassman
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It is how we nurture the good and deal with the bad that ultimately shapes our destiny.
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Charles F. Glassman (Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life)
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Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.
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Germany Kent
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At times we relax in our comfort zone, and it takes leadership to recognize this and adjust our mindset.
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Mark Villareal (A Script for Aspiring Women Leaders: 5 Keys to Success)
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World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.
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Robin Sharma (The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life)
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If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things donโt come from comfort zones.
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Roy Bennett
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Donโt blame others. it wonโt make you a better person.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.
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Shannon L. Alder
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I think that fear keeps so many of us from being successful at things outside our realm of experience. We love to stay in our comfort zone, but the growth only comes when we wander outside of that zone.
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Leslie Jordan (How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived)
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With ever greater frequency they annihilate themselves, for success breeds contempt for those very qualities that purchased it.
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Steven Erikson (House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4))
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People submit too easily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, whenever they consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what they are giving up, never what they are about to gain
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Chris Murray (The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club)
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Trust me. If you do not decide where you are heading, and refuse to take the appropriate action, you will end up being shaped into what others would have you become. Then any change will not be made for your benefit but for theirs.
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Chris Murray (The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club)
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Donโt set your own goals by what other people make important.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Becoming a great leader doesnโt mean being perfect. it means living with your imperfections.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Many people spend more time looking at their failures than focusing on their successes.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Greatness means setting out to make some difference somewhere to someone in someplace.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?
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Chris Murray (The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club)
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The hood is also a low-stress, comfortable life. All your mental energy goes into getting by, so you donโt have to ask yourself any of the big questions. Who am I? Who am I supposed to be? Am I doing enough? In the hood you can be a forty-year-old man living in your momโs house asking people for money and itโs not looked down on. You never feel like a failure in the hood, because someoneโs always worse off than you, and you donโt feel like you need to do more, because the biggest success isnโt that much higher than you, either. It allows you to exist in a state of suspended animation.
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Trevor Noah (Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood)
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Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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When you stay in your comfort zone, you are not learning.
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Ben Tolosa (Masterplan Your Success: Deadline Your Dreams)
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There is no growth without discomfort.
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Abhijit Naskar (Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans)
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No matter how successful you are, or how skillful you may be, stretching beyond your comfort zone will mean feeling โless thanโ for a time.
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Todd Henry (Louder than Words: Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice)
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A lot of people desire to go to their next level but only a few are determined to grow to their next level
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Saji Ijiyemi
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People who have their dreams fulfilled are those who go outside their comfort zones to fight for their dreams.
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Clement Ogedegbe (YOUR POTENTIALS - THE SOURCE OF YOUR GREATNESS: โฆ.Secrets to unleashing your full potentials and achieving greater heights in life.)
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Focus on how far you have come in life
rather than looking at the accomplishments of others.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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I have set my mind to make sure I am prepared to accept success, whatever the trials ahead, whatever the work required.
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Chris Murray (The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club)
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Like the butterfly, you will also go through stages of change, rebirth, and new beginnings for transformation and renewal. Use these changes to create a clarity of purpose for a personal renaissance. Break out of your comfort zone, shed old layers, and stretch in your potential to become your best self. Be free of outdated limitations, experience rebirth and take flight.
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Susan C. Young
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There shall always be that voice that will tell you how you are wasting your time and ability, how you shall fail, how some tried and failed, why your prevailing slips are indications of your future doom, why you are unworthy to dare, why your background mismatches your vision and aspiration, why your personality misfits your mission and how arduous the errand is. You have a choice. You have your thought. You have what burns in you that tells you how you can make it. Though the world may be interested in your success, it is much interested in your slips and mediocrity as-well. Your vision must keep you in your mission. Dare in wisdom. Dare unrelentingly. Ponder!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Comfort and the fear of change are the greatest enemies of success.
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Jeanette Coron
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Move out of your comfort zone, develop those necessary skills and go all out for that much needed advancement!
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Abhishek Ratna (No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!)
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The success zone and the comfort zone are not in the same place.
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Nate Hamon
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Self-assurance reassures others and reassures yourself.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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There is no success in your comfort zone.
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Bo Sรกnchez (Life Manual 101: How to Make Your Dreams Come True)
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When your intuition is strong, follow it.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Comfort zones are overrated. When you embrace the unfamiliar and uncomfortable in all areas of life, your progress will start soaring.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Everything you desire is always just
outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasnโt you would already
possess it, would you not?
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Chris Murray (The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club)
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If you scared, say you scared, and if not then push yourself off of that wall and step into the darkness. That's where success is, get up out of that comfort zone, you'll be surprised what you can achieve!
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Noel DeJesus
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You canโt be a successful leader or mentor until you have served. You canโt serve until you have stepped out of your comfort zone. And you canโt step out of your comfort zone unless you have character and keep your word.
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Bill Courtney (Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love)
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In the randomness of thoughts I couldn't help but think that at times of adversity most of us compromise our greatest talents and run after what we perceive to be more achievable success and in this paradox we end up with a discontented settlement.
Safely cocooned in our comfort zone . Stable .... Without any progression ! Am I the only disbeliever to believe that two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer...oxymoron !
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BinYamin Gulzar
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Most people accept living unhappy lives because it is the only way they know, they refuse to be open to the new emerging possibilities and refuse to make positive changes. Because they are afraid of being outside their own comfort zone and donโt risk anything, they live lives that are far less fulfilling than they could actually have.
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Dragos Bratasanu (Engineering Success: The True Meaning of Leadership and Team Building)
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Once a company sticks with its successful present, it becomes past very fast.
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Harjeet Khanduja (How Leaders Decide: Tackling Biases and Risks in Decision Making)
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The truth is, you canโt sustainably force life. You must let what is meant to be, unfold. You must do what feels good and makes you come alive, thatโs how you thrive.
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Kristen Butler (The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow)
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Fear can keep us stuck in our comfort zone, but courage can open us up to tremendous possibilities and growth. The choice is yours.
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Felecia Etienne (Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women)
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all achievement requires a step outside your comfort zone.
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Michal Stawicki (Simplify Your Pursuit of Success (Six Simple Steps to Success Book 1))
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I've discovered I am most comfortable outside my comfort zone.
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Mark W. Boyer
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Leave Your Comfort Zone, If You Want To Accomplish Something.
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Palash Chowdhury
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Donโt just fit in; make it a point to brighten your corner. Decide to resolve your challenges.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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The worst enemy of our humanity is our self-doubt.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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When we allow negative messages to fester in our head, they take on a life of their own.
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Lolly Daskal (The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness)
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Donโt let any situation intimidate you, defeat you, or conquer you. you are stronger and smarter than anything that challenges you.
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Lolly Daskal
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The Comfort Zone is not a static place. In fact, if we allow it, our Comfort Zone will continually grow and expand. It is always becoming more.
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Kristen Butler (The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow)
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Your inner wisdom is your friend, and it lives inside the calm security of your Comfort Zone.
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Kristen Butler (The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow)
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I believe the secret to my success has been my commitment to consistently aligning with my Comfort Zone and expanding it.
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Kristen Butler (The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow)
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If you want to succeed, take calculated risks and be willing to step outside of your comfort zone.
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Sri Amit Ray (Power of Exponential Mindset for Success and Leadership)
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Don't be afraid to switch it up. During the mix is where you may stumble upon exactly what you have been searching for that will help you find your niche.
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Germany Kent
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Itโs the willingness to keep pushing through new challenges, not shrink from them back into your comfort zone, that separates the successful from the unsuccessful.
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Jen Sincero (You Are a Badassยฎ: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life)
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The best way to come out of our comfort zone is, not to create one.
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Sukant Ratnakar (Quantraz)
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Our very definition and understanding of the Comfort Zone is falseโor at the very least, incomplete. True, lasting success is not attained outside our Comfort Zone, but rather inside it.
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Kristen Butler (The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow)
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Greater success and happiness are only possible for you when you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable during the process of creating a new comfort zone at a higher level of effectiveness.
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Brian Tracy (Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed)
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If you want to be excellent at something, you must move away from your comfort zone, overcome doubt, setbacks and failure. Never give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. One day, success will be yours.
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Mark F. LaMoure
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Great improvements and massive successes only come from stepping outside your comfort zone. They happen when you reach, stretch, and become vulnerable. Develop a belief in yourself and you will get out of your own way.
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Austin Netzley (Make Money, Live Wealthy: 75 Successful Entrepreneurs Share the 10 Simple Steps to True Wealth)
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If you want to be excellent at something, it involves moving away from your comfort zone, overcoming doubt, setbacks and failure. Don't give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. Success and winning will be yours.
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Mark F. LaMoure
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A good Public Relations agent can help you gain exposure and grow your popularity and often get you in the right places, but they cannot help those who refuse to birth new possibilities and move out of their comfort zones.
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Germany Kent
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ATTITUDE DRIVES ACTIONS. ACTIONS DRIVE RESULTS. RESULTS DRIVE LIFESTYLES. IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR LIFESTYLE, LOOK AT YOUR RESULTS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR RESULTS, LOOK AT YOUR ACTIONS. IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR ACTIONS, LOOK AT YOUR ATTITUDE. IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR ATTITUDE, LOOK AT YOUR PHILOSOPHY. "If you have a philosophy of service to others, and if you have a positive attitude, then you can BEGIN to become successful and can BEGIN to take success actions." "Successful people do what unsuccessful people don't (won't) do. Successful people live outside their comfort zone. Successful people hang around money or things that make money. Successful people are consistent (will be here next year). Successful people stay in the fire. Successful people know how to access information. Successful people are always learning.
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Jeffrey Gitomer (Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Gold Book of Yes! Attitude: How to find, build, and keep a YES! attitude for a lifetime of SUCCESS (Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Book Series))
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Itโs okay to be sad when you mess up, but donโt dwell for too long. The mistake has already been made, and you canโt erase the fact that it happened. You can either learn from it or mope about it.The choice is yours, but remember, we are only human; we were born to make mistakes. Simply put, if you have never made a mistake in your life, then thatmeans that you have never taken a risk. Taking risks means that you go outside ofyour comfort zone โ that you go outside of your boundaries. The most successful people are the ones who are not afraid to give it their all and possibly humiliate themselves greatly in front of others. Itโs like that one saying, โThe personwho asks a question is a fool for five minutes, but the person who never asks and remains silent is a fool forever.โ You choose the way you want to live your life.
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Sunita
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Your young, sitting back thinking about your future, you feel heavily in your heart your desire to create your dream; no matter the tasks set before you. You hold that feeling; close to you, and you age. Your told to grow up, get a job and become successful in ways that will make someone else proud, whilst ignoring the ache inside yourself. Truth is, we're all raised to conform; damn it our parents were raised to conform, but does that mean you have to, too? No, than unravel that long lost dream inside yourself and start to create a life from it, you'll walk alone for a while, you will break down every comfort zone you've ever known; slowly transforming into a being without one, and you know what..? even if it's going to be hard, possibly some of the greatest hurdles of your time; one thing will feel certain- you'll never have felt so empowered in all your life.
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Nikki Rowe
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The general theme of those who live and create from within their Comfort Zone is: Life is intelligently designed, and everything is always working out for my highest good. All I need to do to be successful is to be myself and follow my own internal guidance. If I can dream it and claim it, I can receive it.
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Kristen Butler (The Comfort Zone: Create a Life You Really Love with Less Stress and More Flow)
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There are four things a person needs for success: a medium amount of intelligence, a bit of imagination, self-confidence and failure.
For once you taste failure, you have no fear. You can take risks more easily. Then You don't want to snuggle in your comfort zone anymore-you are ready to fly. And Success is about flying, not snuggling, God said.
God sighed before speaking again. I think you need to understand how my system works. You see I have a contract with all human beings. you do your best, and every now and then, I will come behind to give you a bonus push. But it has to begin with you, For otherwise I can't distinguish who needs my help most
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Chetan Bhagat (One Night at the Call Center)
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You were raised to think in patterns set by others. To be as successful as you want to be, it may take getting out of those traditional patterns. Most people don't get out of their comfort zone. Most people don't attain the level of success they set out to achieve. I wonder if there's any correlation between those two statements?
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Jeffrey Gitomer (The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource)
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We are too easily satisfied with conventional success: bodies, bucks, and buildings. The average Christian resides in the comfort zone of โI pay the pastor to preach, administrate, and counsel. I pay him, he ministers to me. . . . I am the consumer, he is the retailer. . . . I have the needs, he meets them. . . . Thatโs what I pay for.
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Bill Hull (The Disciple-Making Pastor: Leading Others on the Journey of Faith)
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Break out to go out
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The birds dare to break the egg shell
It does so in order to get out of that Hell
When it finally succeeds, itโll then fly
To its comfort zone itโll say bye
Are you being confined in a small space
How long will you remain at that place?
Before you can explore more territories,
Break away from the former glories.
Yesterdayโs excellence is todayโs average
You must strive to be better age after age
Never accept the available mediocrity
As the only preferable opportunity
Decide to grow from below to hero
And make it a point to vacate level zero
Reach out and arise with power
Godโs blessings on you, will shower
Agree to grow, never attempt to be slow
Be not afraid. Never doubt. Youโll flow
The grace of God will be your guide
Taking you along, side by side.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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I did it the hard way (a poem)
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Many of the big dreams I dreamt,
I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt.
Life taught me to believe that
Great ideas can start from a wretched hut.
Many of the strongest steps I took,
I took, when I was given the fiercest look.
My passion pokes me to understand
That peopleโs mockeries, I can withstand.
Many of the fastest speeds I gained,
I gained when I was bitterly stained.
I first thought the only way was to quit
As I tried again, I no longer have guilt.
Many of the bravest decisions I made,
I made, when my life was about to fade.
I was frustrated and ripe to sink.
But then I strive to release the ink.
Many of the longest journeys I started,
I started, having no resource; money parted
I relied on God my creator all dawn long
And at dusk He gave me a new song.
Many of the hardest questions I tackled,
I tackled, when I was heckled.
They were very troublesome to settle
But I make it happen little by little
Yet, it was not I, but the Lord Jesus
The saviour who gives me success.
In Him, through Him and by Him
I have the liberty to do everything with vim.
I donโt want to enjoy this liberty alone.
You too must step out of your comfort zone.
Itโs not easy, but you can do it anyway.
Jesus is the life, the truth and the way.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)
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A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause.
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Archibald Marwizi (Making Success Deliberate)
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When people decide not to take risks, this is why. They fear they might suffer unexpected consequences. And, as my ulcers and depression proved, the risk is real. But is that reason to hang onto the past? To cling to mediocrity? No. Doing that is the first step along the path of seeing a living faith become a dead one. The old place, the old building, the old method, the old success, is comforting. The new step is frightening. We must place our trust completely in God to move beyond these comfort zones in life.
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Reinhard Bonnke (Living a Life of Fire: An Autobiography by Reinhard Bonnke)
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That pleasure is preferable to the terrifying yet majestic fact that all possibility requires hard work, regular reinvention and a dedication as deep as the sea to leaving our harbors of safety, daily. I believe that the seduction of complacency and an easy life is one hundred times more brutal, ultimately, than a life where you go all in an take an unconquerable stand for your brightest dreams. 'World-class begins where your comfort zone ends' is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.
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Robin Sharma (The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life)
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they are never sufficiently tested. This means Iโve got two good pieces of news for you. The first is that whenever you do something beyond your โcomfort zoneโ and realize you are still standing, the more you will believe that the impossible is actually possible. And on the road to success, belief is everything. And the second piece of news is that we all have much further to push ourselves than we might initially imagine. Inside us all, just waiting to be tested, is a better, bolder, braver version of who we think we are.
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Bear Grylls (A Survival Guide for Life: How to Achieve Your Goals, Thrive in Adversity, and Grow in Character)
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Most people never reach their limit because they are never sufficiently tested. This means Iโve got two good pieces of news for you. The first is that whenever you do something beyond your โcomfort zoneโ and realize you are still standing, the more you will believe that the impossible is actually possible. And on the road to success, belief is everything. And the second piece of news is that we all have much further to push ourselves than we might initially imagine. Inside us all, just waiting to be tested, is a better, bolder, braver version of who we think we are. All you have to
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Bear Grylls (A Survival Guide for Life: How to Achieve Your Goals, Thrive in Adversity, and Grow in Character)
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Mingle
โข Be the connectorโintroduce people to each other who may not otherwise connect.
โข Be a conversation fire starter; point out what people have in common as you are introducing them.
โข Seek out the folks who may appear to be shy, or awkward, or wallflowers. Find ways to build trust and comfort. Engage them with a kind word to pull them out of their shell.
โข Arrive early and stay late; connect with people before and after your event.
โข Stretch beyond your comfort zone to speak with, sit with, and start conversations with people whom you do not know.
โข Offer to refill someoneโs drink or clear their plate.
โข Encourage introductions: โThere is someone whom I would love for you to meet . . .
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Susan C. Young (The Art of Action: 8 Ways to Initiate & Activate Forward Momentum for Positive Impact (The Art of First Impressions for Positive Impact, #4))
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Stop Telling Yourself Youโre Not Ready As we noted yesterday, we fear the unknown. For example, in our personal lives, we hesitate before saying hello to strangers. We immediately call a plumber before trying to fix plumbing problems on our own. We stick to the same grocery stores rather than visiting new stores. We gravitate toward the familiar. In our professional lives, we shy away from taking on unfamiliar projects. We cringe at the thought of creating new spreadsheets and reports for our bosses. We balk at branching out into new avenues of business. Instead, we remain in our comfort zones. There, after all, the risk of failure is minimal. One of the biggest reasons we do this is because we believe weโre unready to tackle new activities. We feel we lack the practical expertise to handle new projects with poise and effectiveness. We feel we lack the knowledge to know what weโre doing. In other words, we tell ourselves that weโre not 100% ready. This assumption stems from a basic and common fallacy: that we must be 100% prepared if we hope to perform a given task effectively. In reality, thatโs untrue. The truth is, youโll rarely be 100% ready for anything life throws at you. Individuals who have achieved success in their respective fields claim their success is a reflection of their persistence and grit, and an ability to adapt to their circumstances. It is not dictated by whether the individual has achieved mastery in any particular area.
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Damon Zahariades (The 30-Day Productivity Boost (Vol. 1): 30 Bad Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Time Management (And How To Fix Them!))
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What is our UN-VICE in the context of Disruption 3.0?
To sum up, UN-VICE is an updated way of capturing the state of the world. Framing the dynamics of systemic disruption as UNknown, Volatile, Intersecting, Complex, Exponential enables an empowering response. We are not helpless victims unable to make decisions. With UN-VICE, we have the power to shape our own futures.
KEY POINTS: OUR UN-VICE ACRONYM
- UNknown: Uncertainty becomes our comfort zone. Recognize you canโt know anything perfectly and many decisions are based on assumptions. Increased uncertainty lowers the value of advice and requires increased self-reliance. Learn how to respond regardless of the lack of precedents.
- Volatile: Harness change for gain. Our world, and change itself, is evolving faster than ever before. Volatility is not new; we simply canโt ignore its impact. In volatility, we see the shifting speed and texture of the changing environment.
- Intersecting: Everything connects to everything else. The broader our lens, the greater the insights gained from realizing how boundaries are disappearing.
- Complex: Notice emergent properties and adapt. In complex environments, inputs do not map clearly to outputs. Practitioners must acknowledge emergent properties and reconcile the immediate with the indefinite. Such systems require critical thinking, experimentation, and judgment. Evaluate emerging issues, build resiliency, and learn to adapt to expanding complexity.
- Exponential: Pay attention to nonlinear types of change that increase in growth rate. Notice rapid acceleration of seemingly small shifts. Monitoring early on will mean fewer surprises.
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Roger Spitz (Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World)
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Unlike GTA, in real life, the law is a thing and jail is a thing. But that's about where the differences end. If someone gave you a perfect simulation of today's world to play in and told you that it's all fake with no actual consequences - with the only rules being that can't break the law or harm anyone, and you still have to make sure to support you and your family's basic needs - what would you do? My guess is that most people would do all kinds of things they'd love to do in their real life but wouldn't dare to try, and by behaving that way they'd end up quickly getting a life going on in the simulation that's both far more successful and much truer to themselves than the real life they're currently living. Removing the fear and the concern with identity or the opinions of others would thrust the person into the not-actually-risky Chef Lab and have them bouncing around all the exhilarating places outside their comfort zone - and their lives would take off. That's the life irrational fears blocks us from.
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Tim Urban
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I did it the hard way
Many of the big dreams I dreamt,
I dreamt, when I met a failed attempt.
Life taught me to believe that
Great ideas can start from a wretched hut.
Many of the strongest steps I took,
I took, when I was given the fiercest look.
My passion pokes me to understand
That peopleโs mockeries, I can withstand.
Many of the fastest speeds I gained,
I gained when I was bitterly stained.
I first thought the only way was to quit
As I tried again, I no longer have guilt.
Many of the bravest decisions I made,
I made, when my life was about to fade.
I was frustrated and ripe to sink.
But then I strive to release the ink.
Many of the longest journeys I started,
I started, having no resource; money parted
I relied on God my creator all dawn long
And at dusk He gave me a new song.
Many of the hardest questions I tackled,
I tackled, when I was heckled.
They were very troublesome to settle
But I make it happen little by little
Yet, it was not I, but the Lord Jesus
The saviour who gives me success.
In Him, through Him and by Him
I have the liberty to do everything with vim.
I donโt want to enjoy this liberty alone.
You too must step out of your comfort zone.
Itโs not easy, but you can do it anyway.
Jesus is the life, the truth and the way.
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Israelmore Ayivor (Become a Better You)