Your Comfort Zone: Your Empire

 

"Get out of your comfort zone. It's your biggest enemy."
This is something preached by many.
Something perceived as the key to success.
I disagree.

The thing about your comfort zone is  —

It's not your enemy.
It's your biggest asset.

In an earlier blog post titled Enemies to Lovers: With Yourself, I stated it was important to accept your weaknesses not as a curse, but as a gift.

Similarly, your comfort zone is not your enemy;
It is your empire.
You must learn to conquer realms with it, rather than leave it in the dust.
Waging war with your comfort zone only breeds inner chaos.
You must negotiate.
Collaborate.
Work together to form powerful alliances that will shake the generations to come. 
Figure out how you can work together rather than let the other govern itself.
Like an empire, even if your comfort zone is yours, it still requires your attention and governance in order to become a powerful one.
So, it is neither about letting your comfort zone take over your responses.
Nor is it about eliminating it so that you can be a wild spirit.
However, it's about expanding your comfort zone so that you can take over more realms with it. 

Robert Kiyosaki wrote in 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' that it was important not to avoid risk,
but to learn to manage it.
This is what you call expanding your comfort zone.
Not eliminating it.
He emphasized the importance of making yourself comfortable with risk so you can actually manage it.
Rather than avoid it—only to be caught off guard when life eventually demands you face it.
Because let's be honest,
life isn't life without risk.

Now, it's perfectly normal to be scared of expanding your comfort zone. 
Let's be honest, expanding an empire is not an easy task.
It's a daunting one, in fact.
But the thing is —

Life is daunting.
Nothing about it is not overwhelming.
But the least you can do is get comfortable with it.
See what I did there?
You expand your comfort zone by getting comfortable with expanding it.
It's a leap of faith.

And if you're not going to have faith in yourself, then who will?

Go on, conquer realms and domains and nations.
Even if it may seem like nobody's cheering you on, remember, you are your own cheerleader.
And we're rooting for you <3