A comfort zone. What happens there? You may succeed...to a point. You may fail....to a point. There are no risks, there is little emotion and there is no forward motion. It is a stand still. Not a bad place, but not where the beautiful, scary, exciting things happen in life. In my opinion, we are not meant to live here. How would new ideas come about, things get invented, people fall in love? Sure as hell not because they are "comfortable"
As a Crossfitter, I would say that I put myself outside my comfort zone pretty regularly, but let's be honest, there are certain movements and workouts that I feel perfectly comfortable and I just float along. About a week and half ago, I did the Civilian Military Combine, an military style obstacle race that begins with a Crossfit workout "pit." I can say for a majority of it, I was scared and pretty damn miserable. But, as I knew would be the case, I felt accomplished after. I may have skipped a few obstacles out of fear, but rolling around in mud and climbing over things was more than out of my comfort zone. I learned how much the power of having the support of the people around you means and how you don't have to be alone outside of your comfort zone. As a matter of fact, you rarely are.
For most fitness people, we are used to escaping this comfort zone physically, we do it willingly and ready to face the challenge, but do we let it bleed into other areas of our lives? Whether it be professionally, personally, spiritually...it is important to remind myself (yourself) that the ship sailing sees more, experiences more and gets farther.
Think about it...what more can you do to push yourself to your limits, to make yourself a little bit uncomfortable, to make yourself adventure and grow?
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