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emotional
24 wellness
Break Out Of Your
Comfort Zone
Self-esteem and
confidence plays a
big role in emotional
wellness, which is
why it’s important
to actively look at
ways of bolstering
both. One way
of doing that is
by breaking out
of your comfort
zone. Research has
shown that the less
willing we are to
experience sadness,
the more prone we
are to anxiety and
depression. You
only have to look at
successful athletes,
creatives and leaders
to see that being
successful means
going the extra mile.
Here is a five-step plan you can use to
do the same:
1
Look at the cost of
playing safe
For many of us, it’s easier to play safe
than take risks. However, the more you
invest, the greater the rewards. So reflect
on what you could be giving up by
avoiding risk and staying in your comfort
zone. Whether it’s in your personal life,
or career, be as specific as possible.
What tasks, people, conversations and
emotions do you avoid? And what has
doing that cost you?
2
Be compassionate to
yourself
Looking at what you’ve lost will
elicit a host of unwanted thoughts
and emotions that many of us would
prefer not to acknowledge. It can also
be tempting to blame yourself for
procrastinating, which can lead to cycle
of shame. Instead, to improve, we need
to be able to be compassionate towards
ourselves.
3
There’s no happiness
without unhappiness
You must be able to need to be able to
embrace the emotions that, up until now,
you may have been avoiding. Rejection
and failure are part of life. Without them,
we wouldn’t have success and happiness.
So, instead of avoiding them, accept
them. Use them as tools to grow better.
Small steps to big
4rewards
Recognise your limitations too. The
key to long-term success and breaking
out of our comfort zone is to identify
when to take action and when to stand
still. Make a list of what you want to
achieve, but break your goals and action
plan down into manageable steps. Small,
simple steps are often the best way to
achieve big goals.
Be accountable for
5successes
Most of us will blame ourselves
for failure, but achievement is one of
the greatest feelings you can have, so
recognise when you achieve something
- no matter how small. This is the key
to true emotional wellness. When we
recognise our achievements, we gain
self-worth.
- Robert Urich
A healthy
outside starts
from the inside.
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