The biggest shifts in my life happened after leaving my comfort zone.

I believe in changing, evolving and growing, from every experience we have in life (‘good or bad’).

It is often recommended to leave the comfort zone if you want big changes in your life.
However, going out of the comfort zone is NOT EASY at all, it sometimes lead to a path that is full of resistance and pain.

The question to ask before we decide to go out of a comfort zone is – will the outcome be worth the pain on the way.

When we want to achieve things that are outside of our comfort zone, we know we might have to sacrifice on the way – and we take it into consideration.
If you have big dreams you are passionate about – you have to accept also the commitment and hardships that sometimes accompany it.

Now comes a Dilemma:
The dilemma is to know when are we willing to stand the heat and when is it futile.

After opening my entrepreneurship, I received (and still) a flood of ideas and opinions from people around me. Some of these ideas tingled my “comfort-zone nerve“, and when that happened – I checked with myself the following:

Is it (the offered idea) something that REALLY is me?
After learning about myself and getting to know my character with an ongoing exploration – I can already know if something resides with my personality or not.
I am not hurry to say NO to ideas, because I want to push myself to bigger and greater things, but if peace is the cost – it is not worth it.

If an idea makes me cringe or scared or even disgusted – I first check if it is a fear-reflex that I can actually work on; Or is it an intuition that tells me "Trust your guts, Don't do it!"

There are things in our life we want to work on, develop and improve. When an idea touches a nerve you have a soft spot or fear for, you can decide you want to change it and work on it. That is a good sign to leave your comfort zone.
But when the idea of working on this hinder – doing it specifically this way – gives you all NO signs – you can reject it. Or find another way to achieve it – in your OWN pace, rhythm and method.