Our comfort zone is a space where our behaviors and activities fit a pattern that minimizes stress and risk. It’s a place of mental security that provides us with regular happiness, low anxiety, and reduced stress.

Everywhere you turn, someone is telling you how awful your comfort zone is. It’s often demonized and likened to a prison from which you must break free.

The problem with this negative labeling is that it can also have a seriously negative affect on your self-esteem. Who can feel good about choosing to live in a prison? The guilt of doing so can backfire and cause even more inaction, rather than action.

If you put a positive label on your comfort zone, however, then you’ll never leave it and I think we all know that all your growth and magic occurs well outside your bubble.

The truth is that your comfort zone is neither good nor bad. Instead, see it for what it is – a natural state that we need to occasionally revisit to become less stressed and to process our experiences and the benefits of leaving it.

Consider your comfort zone as a temporary respite, not a permanent residence.

Amazing @chbartist ...!!!