Your Comfort Zone is Pretty Awesome

There’s no shame in staying there.

“Everything good happens outside of your comfort zone.” You could discount the price on that and put it on an end cap at Target. I still don’t think I’d buy it.

What does this even mean? Can someone define comfort zone for me? Because, conveniently, everyone seems to have their own definition of it depending on what they need it to mean.

It’s really easy to preach the gospel of going outside of one’s comfort zone when you selectively decide what that means. It feels shallow and empty.

I don’t quite understand why the comfort zone is a bad thing.

Let me just get this straight: I have a place I can go to where good things routinely happen in a consistent manner. And you want me to abandon that.

I dated a guy who was huge into the whole “outside the comfort zone” idea. He routinely encouraged me to get outside of mine. So early on I asked him, “What was something you did that was really outside of your comfort zone?”

He told me how he had a fear of heights so he went skydiving. Okay. Did that really make him a better person? What is the big life lesson in jumping out of a plane…