Tag: Comfort Zone

On Making Peace With Uncertainty

Written by on July 26, 2015 in Everyday Resilience with 31 Comments
On Making Peace With Uncertainty

Fear of uncertainty can stop you in your tracks as sure as any brick wall. It can prevent you from growing, taking risks, and avoiding even the possibility of vulnerability. In other words, it keeps you firmly tucked behind your walls of comfortable knowledge and circumstances. Is there something you are clinging to out of […]

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10 Simple Ways to Gradually Expand Your Comfort Zone

Written by on June 1, 2015 in Everyday Resilience with 42 Comments
10 Simple Ways to Gradually Expand Your Comfort Zone

Whether we realize it or not, most of us put a lot of work into ensuring that certain things in our lives remain constant … few surprises, no uncomfortable challenges or unfamiliar boundaries. What we treat as our personal “comfort zone” is invisible, but very real and the longer we live in our ‘zone’ the […]

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The Risky Business of Living Life to the Fullest

Written by on March 18, 2015 in Life by Design with 15 Comments
The Risky Business of Living Life to the Fullest

Everything about living life to the fullest is risky. If you’re not at least a little scared from time to time, then maybe you’ve been lulled into taking the ride as a passenger rather than steering your course as the driver on the journey. What does risk mean to you? More often than not our […]

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Are You Living a Life of Excuses?

Written by on January 15, 2015 in Personal Accountability, Self Awareness with 9 Comments
Are You Living a Life of Excuses?

Do you ever catch yourself making excuses about why you fell short on a goal, didn’t fulfill a commitment, or made a mistake? It’s a pesky self-destructive habit that is far easier to pick up than it is to break because our excuses are so often attached to our egos. And, just for the record, […]

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The Art of Being Imperfectly Fearless

Written by on December 29, 2014 in Everyday Resilience with 26 Comments
The Art of Being Imperfectly Fearless

Fearlessness is a capacity anyone can develop. It’s not an absence of fear; it’s refusing to let fear prevent you from claiming all that life has to offer. What does the term “fearless” mean to you? Living without fear? Someone who’s courageous, heroic or brave beyond reason? In reality it’s not that people who behave […]

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Stepping Stones: Comfort Zone

Written by on September 20, 2014 in Everyday Resilience with 4 Comments
Stepping Stones: Comfort Zone

This thing called “comfort zone” is invisible, but very real and the longer we live within our “zone” the more difficult it becomes to move beyond those boundaries … familiar places, people and activities, even the habits we long to break. The thing is, for better or worse, life has a way of throwing us […]

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