Bonus - Stepping Boldly Out Of Our Comfort Zone

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Interview, Motivation, Online, Businessinterview, Education, Businesscoaching, Entrepreneur, Lifestyle, Income, Business

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🗓️ 12 September 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today's bonus episode of Join Up Dots, your host David Ralph shares something deeply personal that he should have got dealt with years ago, but was scared to do it. Finally making an appointment at the hospital for an issue that has caused him distress and discomfort for far longer than it should have, he realised that he was trapped within the comfort zone. That zone where dreams die. Adventure shrivels. And experiences are never gained. He was scared to confront something that was out of the normal experiences that he dealt with everyday. Preferring to ignore it until it become something that he couldn't ignore it anymore. But why do we do this? Why do we all crave the life of our dreams, where excitement wakes us up everyday with a cheery eagerness, but instead prefer to be greeted by the cold hand of boredom and frustration instead. Its quite simply that as human beings we like nothing more than routine. We don't like to be scared, or feel apprehension and discomfort. But actually being brave and attempting new things, feeling frightened and full of adrenaline, is what keeps us young and feeling good about ourselves. It doesn't have to be big like tying a bungee chord to your office window and leaping out, but just speaking up when normally you might have stayed quiet. It might be going into a bookshop and choosing a totally random book to what you would normally reach out for. Just stuff that is different. We impose a lot of restrictions on ourselves that keep us small. Stopping us believing in the impossible. And by stepping out of our comfort zone in small ways, we actually build up our confidence to tackle the big things. And in big thing land is where our dreams start becoming real.

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features
0:10.4	amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.1	This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of
0:20.4	his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:26.0	Yes, hello there, this is David Ralph from Join Up Dot.
0:30.0	And this is a little bonus episode, just you and me once more having a little
0:35.3	chin wag getting something off my chest and literally getting something off my
0:40.1	chest because I'm just about to go off to hospital now I wasn't going to
0:44.8	sort of record this but if you've heard a lot of my bonus episodes I normally start
0:49.2	with that I wasn't expecting to record this and of course I still record it and I'm pushing it out as well because I think what happens with people is that we keep our feelings very close to our chest for fear of looking weak or looking unstable or not professional or whatever.
1:06.7	And I certainly do that because number one I'm a man and number two I'm English so that the two combinations pulled together and
1:15.3	literally we don't share anything we're the ones at the back of the cinema
1:19.8	weeping halfway through Toy Story 3 but desperately trying to sort ourselves out for when the lights come up,
1:25.4	which is a true story. I actually did that. So I'm off to hospital later on today,
1:30.9	and I've got an issue. I've had an issue for a couple of years and I've literally
1:36.7	been putting it off even though I know that it was there and at the beginning what
1:41.6	it basically is is when I swallow or when I eat or when I drink
1:48.2	more often than not I get this terrible pain as the food or the drink is sort of going down
1:52.4	and it feels like it's just not going
1:54.2	down anywhere. And during the night I can wake up with this terrible pain in my chest and sort of
1:59.1	literally walk around the house sort of getting it done. Now the weird thing is when it started off it kind of
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