Chapter 6:
Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone
Synopsis
Living within the confines of routine life results in feelings of being uncertain, frustrated, and low, largely because of the monotony that's involved. There's also a big sense of depression owing to the fact that you can't clearly see any opportunities or possibilities of advancement or betterment of your current state. If such chances do come your way, you're hesitant to pursue them because you become doubtful that they'll work to your advantage. Such thoughts make way for several other people that are of no productive consequence. Thoughts that life would have been better off if you were born into a rich family, or if you had attended a better school, do nothing to remedy your situation.
Stepping Out
There's a lack of self-belief and as a consequence when you stop asserting yourself - you give yourself up to fate and begin allowing things to just happen for you. Such a life is spent seeking the approval of peers; there's no personal initiative to step outside the little circle of thought and venturing to the unexplored. For these reasons, your life becomes full of anxiety, a passive and defensive attitude, doubt, fear, and diminished self-esteem. Clearly, this isn't a lifestyle you will enjoy.
Break out of your Comfort Zone. Positive thought affirmations are ideal for individuals who wish to step out of their zones of comfort. They work by asserting a faith and optimism in the self. Self-belief is created and this inspires individuals to create changes that they wish to see in their lives. This is strictly through self-control and effort. Naturally, the first step has to be the erasure of your negative inner talk, which has a big effect in shaping the thoughts, which confine you to the small circle that's your comfort zone.
Stepping out into the Positive
Positive affirmations will start a new thought process that will create new life. You'll be able to brush off the doubts and fears that confine you to self-inflicted limitations. Positive affirmations will enable you to visualize the outcomes that you want to manifest in your life.
As you create your affirmations ensure that they are positive. Let the affirmations convince you. Let them be brief but emotionally and mentally intense. They must be in the first person because they're only meant for you. With this said and done, start repeating the affirmations fervently. Using visualization and creating mental images of success will serve you well. The positive affirmations are for the purpose of reprogramming the subconscious. Repeating the affirmations every day is required if the reprogramming is to work. Ensure that you're calm and collected when you're doing this. If this proves impossible, invest in a gadget that can repeat the affirmations in your sleep. This has proved to be the most effective technique by far. Realize that affirmations complement your efforts. Half-hearted efforts to get out of your comfort zone will not pay off. The effort has to be wholehearted.
Creating a time frame
There's a difference between creating in your own universe and creating in the physical world. When you create inside you