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The Game Changer Life

#126: Comfort: The Silent Seducer

The Game Changer Life

Dave Anderson

Education, Self-improvement, Business

4.9550 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We all appreciate physical comfort - freedom from physical pain - however, we sometimes seek out a different type of mental comfort to avoid any pain that comes with taking a risk, making a change, starting something new, etc. This form of comfort is a silent seducer, and has the ability to hold you back from becoming unstoppable. In this episode Dave shares a few simple areas where you may have let comfort take hold of determining how far you go, and how fast you get there.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

0:22.3

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

0:28.3

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, let's talk about comfort.

0:34.2

The silent seducer. Really it is.

0:37.9

Now, if you look up comfort in the dictionary, it talks about a state of physical ease, freedom from pain.

0:44.6

Now, for sure.

0:45.9

Physically, we can appreciate not being in pain.

0:48.3

A comfortable bed, good health, you know, comfortable chair, so forth and so forth.

0:52.1

But there's a different type of comfort.

0:53.9

There's a different type of comfort. There's a different

0:54.6

type of freedom from pain or discomfort that we seek out sometimes mentally. And it can cause us to

1:03.6

get used to what is and we become comfortable with it. And the thought of making a change,

1:09.8

taking a risk, making a decision,

1:11.6

unsettles us, it's painful, it's uncomfortable, so we stay where we're at.

1:16.6

And that can happen whether we're at the top or the bottom.

1:19.6

Sometimes people think, well, it's successful people that get comfortable, but sometimes it's at the other end as well,

1:25.6

people who are not doing well, but they've gotten used to it.

1:29.2

They've gotten used to it.

1:30.7

And the idea of having to change something or risk something is scarier to them than doing what's safe and comfortable.

1:38.6

So comfort seduces you.

1:40.3

It seduces you to settle.

1:42.5

You settle whether you're doing well or whether you're doing

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