Why You Need to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone this Year
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
5.0 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
How long have you been living in your comfort zone? And how much has your comfort zone held you back from living the life you truly want?
These are serious questions that we need to ask ourselves.
Stepping outside of your comfort zone can be challenging, but it also plays an important role in our personal growth and development. It is how you learn what you truly want in life, how you reach goals, and figure out what true happiness means to you.
Join me in this episode of the Embrace Your Real podcast, where I talk about stepping outside of your comfort zone in 2023.
What I discussed:
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Getting uncomfortable promotes personal growth.
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It helps you expand your horizons and see the world in a different light.
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Getting uncomfortable improves problem-solving skills.
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Discomfort actually increases happiness.
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Stepping out of your comfort zone shows you what you actually want.
Links mentioned in the episode:
Episode 174: Are You Living Every Day Better?
The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
If you want more from me, be sure to check out:
Instagram: @embraceyourreal | @movementwithjulie
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick. |
| 0:07.5 | You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Rail with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick |
| 0:13.8 | tip for building your confidence, honoring your body and unconditionally loving |
| 0:17.8 | your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace a reel. let's get it, let's go. |
| 0:23.3 | Hello and welcome back to you another bonus episode on the Embrace Real Podcast. We are talking about why you need to |
| 0:36.6 | step outside your comfort zone this year. Now in your day-to-day life do you aim for comfort or |
| 0:41.6 | discomfort? I know what you're thinking, of course I want to be comfortable. I want to live at a comfortable, you know, temperature. I want to work hard so that I can live in a comfortable place. |
| 0:52.6 | I want to have foods readily accessible |
| 0:56.0 | so that I can always be comfortable in terms of what I'm eating. |
| 0:59.6 | And I know that this is a crisis that we're going through. |
| 1:02.8 | In fact, I just finished a book not too long ago. |
| 1:05.6 | I mentioned it on a few episodes ago, |
| 1:07.8 | but it's called The Comfort Crisis. |
| 1:09.7 | It's by an author named Michael Easter, |
| 1:11.9 | just a really challenging book, |
| 1:13.7 | honestly. |
| 1:14.2 | It challenged me so much. |
| 1:16.2 | I listened to the book, but I also was reading it |
| 1:19.0 | because I feel like personally I retain |
| 1:21.9 | the information a lot better when I'm listening and I'm looking at the words. |
| 1:26.1 | I am a very visual learner, but I also have been wanting to try to get better in terms of reading, |
| 1:32.0 | like being a better reader like not just |
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