054: Stretching Beyond Your Comfort Zone
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This season is all about investing in yourself, and that includes making sure you're not stuck in the comfort zone. I'll share signs to look for so you'll know if you're getting too comfortable, why we let ourselves feel stuck, and solutions to each of the issues you may be experiencing. After listening, you'll have the tips and advice to be more prepared and inspired to take the plunge out of your comfort zone.
What's In This Episode:
- How it feels to be in your comfort zone and why it's not the best place for us to live long term.
- Signs you should look out for to see if you're stuck in the comfort zone.
- The main reasons why it's so hard to get out of our comfort zone, and solutions to each issue you may be having.
- How to make yourself take the plunge by sculpting uncomfortable situations to make them a bit more comfortable.
- What optimal controlled anxiety is, and how it pushes us in the direction of the life we want to live.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on finding success and happiness through the power of productivity. |
| 0:09.4 | Each season, Tanya focuses on specific strategies to help you discover your own priorities and purpose. |
| 0:15.2 | Season five is all about investing in you. |
| 0:18.4 | You can also join Tanya for more interaction and support in her free Facebook group |
| 0:22.3 | at Inquilpress.com slash group. And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello everyone. Welcome |
| 0:30.4 | to Productivity Paradox. I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquil Press, and this is episode |
| 0:36.9 | 54. Today's podcast is brought to you by |
| 0:40.3 | Audible, and I'll be sharing later in the show how you can get a free audiobook download. |
| 0:46.3 | But first, I want to ask you a question. Are you too comfortable? I'm asking this question |
| 0:51.9 | because I feel like for many people, we get into this level of comfort |
| 0:57.0 | and it feels okay. Doesn't feel amazing, doesn't feel fabulous. Maybe it's not terrible, but it's just |
| 1:04.2 | kind of okay. And I think that's not really the life that you are wanting to live. As you know, |
| 1:10.6 | this season is all about |
| 1:12.1 | investing in you. And so I want to talk to you about stretching beyond your comfort zone. Your |
| 1:17.6 | comfort zone is the space where your activities and behaviors fit a routine and a pattern. It's a state |
| 1:24.0 | of mental security that provides low anxiety and reduced stress. |
| 1:29.1 | Now, the word comfort zone originated in around 1908. |
| 1:32.6 | Psychologist Robert M. Yerkes and John D. Dodson explained that a state of relative comfort created a steady level of performance. |
| 1:41.9 | In other words, living a life in relative comfort allows you to just |
| 1:46.4 | keep moving forward one day after the next. But it was later found that we also need a state of |
| 1:53.4 | optimal anxiety in order to maximize our performance. In other words, to not just live, but to really |
| 1:59.7 | push ourselves to live our best life. |
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