GETTING OUT OF

YOUR COMFORT
ZONE
COMFORT ZONE
 Pieternal Dijkstra

 What you know and what

you’re used to feels familiar,
that’s your comfort zone. For
some people, it’s a very tight
space, almost a straightjacket
that you can’t get out of.
 FREDERIKE DEKKERS

“People who are never uncertain are

actually unbearable, because they
aren’t prepared to examine
themselves. But if you never allow
uncertainty into your life, you will
become inflexible”
 SOURCES OF GRATIFICATION
 Judith Sills The Comfort Trap
 Intimate Relationships
 Sexual Satisfaction
 Sports Performance
 Major Objectives
“We need to feel comfortable to live fully,
yet if we’re too comfortable, something
essential dies” - Sills
HOW DO YOU EXIT
YOUR COMFORT
ZONE
 START STRETCHING THE LIMITS
 “One big step is too scary. If you
try doing it in one step, you
often fail” - Dijkstra
 CULTIVATING COURAGE
 Courage isn’t about being tough,
strong, or confident, it’s not a
personality trait either.
 SCARY VERSUS EXCITING
 Inner critic demoralizes and
demotivates.
 Dressed as intuition when it gets loud
 Distinguish Inner Critic and Intuition
 HEARING VOICES
 The intuitive voice & the inner
sweetheart
 A CREATIVE OUTLET
 Uncover your desires
“Challenge yourself and break out of your
patterns, you expand your world and that
makes you happy”
 TIPS FOR
BREAKING OLD
HABITS
 Tell the truth
 Take a class you otherwise never would
 Order a drink that you’ve never tasted before
 Take a lesson in a sport that you’ve never done
 Try a weeklong media blackout
 Read a completely different material
 Watch “About Schmidt”, “Sideways” and “The
Descendants” by Alexander Payne
 Keep Diary
NELSON MANDELA
“ I L E A R N E D T H AT C O U R A G E WA S
NOT THE ABSENCE OF FEAR, BUT
T H E T R I U M P H O V E R I T. T H E
B R AV E M A N I S N O T H E W H O
DOES NOT FEEL AFRAID, BUT HE
WHO CONQUERS FEAR”