Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joe Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. As we get started today on this podcast, I want you to close your eyes for a moment unless you're

driving don't do it if you're driving but just reflect on your life and how you

have set up the areas of your life anywhere from personal relationships to your professional work life, to your home life,

just look at some of the major areas of your life and I want you to pay attention today

of the things you've set up in your life to make yourself comfortable,

all the comforts you've put into your life.

One example could be a very simple thing.

Heating or air conditioning in your house or apartment or the place you live helps

you be comfortable in that space. All the way up to maybe more complex things, how you engage with people,

more esoteric things, less tangible like air conditioning units in the heat of the summer,

and more how you engage with people.

Maybe you do most of your correspondence through email because you don't like to talk on the

phone. So look at all the areas of your life

and identify the things you do to stay inside your comfort zone.

As we reflect on that, I just want to point out that when we stay in our comfort zone

we typically avoid doing hard things that will move our life forward. It's been my

experience and probably yours to Antonio,

that when we confront difficult things head on

and we tackle challenges in our life,

not only do we see results from those things.

I mean, you're actually doing something in your life, you're

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