Why People Are Afraid To Take Risks & Leave Their Comfort Zones
When we consider actually moving toward our hearts desire, a part of us automatically looks ahead to the possible consequences – especially the negative ones. Our comfort zone glooms onto these negative consequences. The comfort zone argues its the actions that will bring on the negative consequences.
The comfort zones emotionally backed recommendation: No Action
The comfort zone stays fairly quiet as long as we dont seriously contemplate action. We can want our dream all we want; we can think about someday getting it as much as we like; we can tell everyone we know how were one day going to have it at every opportunity. We can even make commitments we dont really plan to keep. The only thing we cant do is DO IT!
If we begin to do it, the comfort zone goes into overdrive – hyperdrive, actually – and gets us back on track. On track to the comfort zone is what weve always done before, which means heading (again) toward B, even though our dream rests with A. Why are the consequences of action so uncomfortable? Lets take a look:
1. When we choose, we must let...