Comfort Zone to Growth Zone!

This week I saw a picture on one's journey from Comfort Zone to Growth Zone shared by one of my friends in a WhatsApp Group. It struck a chord with me - I thought it in fact captured Our Journey from Comfort Zone to Growth Zone really well. We often hear that we all need to get out of our Comfort Zones and that the magic happens - ‘out of our Comfort Zone’, it actually happened with us. I’m sure wherever we are on our business journey or in life in general, we all know where our comfort zone is, how we feel secure in it and how it feels when we step out of it. In our hearts, we all want to break free from our comfort zones but fear stops us. I know how many times we all have made excuses to ourselves not to do something we always wanted to do.

I have experienced that once we make the decision to leave our Comfort Zone, we reach an unknown zone, the Fear Zone. I have experienced this fear and soon I realized that the fear over that particular issue was not that bad as I had thought it to be. My passage through this new and unknown zone of fear lasted for some time, more than I expected. However, we could persevere and we successfully crossed this Fear Zone and entered the Learning Zone soon. The Learning Zone I believe is an interesting area where while dealing with challenges and problems, we acquire new skills – this Learning Zone, actually I loved to be in. And as we faced our fears, we realized that learnings helped us and gave us the tools to get over our fears more quickly and efficiently.

It looks like the Growth Zone is where we’ve made it… for now at least sometimes back from Learning Zone. Our dreams changed as we developed through these zones and yes, we made new goals whilst conquering others. Our lives in work and play are now ever-expanding. We’ve been in the Growth Zone for some time now and have smashed lots of targets – we’re now setting our ‘stretch’ goals – more things to work toward. In conclusion, I will suggest everyone to never forget that it is when we leave our Comfort Zone and enter Growth Zone that exceptional things happen. So it’s up to Us Now!

Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊

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