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

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

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson in our Agora Hills, California studio.

And the topic I want to share with you today is the culprit is comfort. Now, not the comfort that you get when it's time to relax or unwind or sleep away from work.

I'm talking about the comfort you seek at work or in other life arenas where you want to grow and have an impact,

but we prioritize comfort instead. Now,

comfort is defined as simply this, a state of physical ease, freedom from struggle,

constraint, or pain. We don't change anything. We don't risk anything. We don't extend ourselves.

We don't try to stand out and excel. We just get by.

That keeps us comfortable. It also can make us irrelevant. So as relates to your daily routines,

pre-work, remember, great performance begins before it begins, at work, in your arena, whatever it is you do, after work, and until you sleep.

This is what we want to talk about.

In those areas, until it's time to be comfortable, here's what comfort will be a culprit and effect in a negative way if you seek it and prioritize it.

Over-risk, growth and change.

Well, the first thing is growth. You're not going to grow. You don't grow when you're comfortable.

Really, the only things that grow when you're comfortable is probably your waistline and your list of excuses for why you're not getting ahead.

I mean, learning and applying new things, trying new things, this can create some discomfort. It's

awkward. You make mistakes and they can cost you and they can be painful. So if you prioritize

comfort over these factors,

it might be easy in the short term,

but eventually you're going to get stuck.

You won't grow.

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