My favourite definition of “crazy” is “doing what you’ve always done but expecting your results to be different.” Most people are afraid to change what they have always done, but the truth is that if you don’t learn to stretch your comfort zone regularly then life will not improve for you.
Everybody has a comfort zone, but is it something we were born with or something that we developed?
The latest scientific advances by researchers such as Dr Bruce Lipton of “Biology of Belief” fame have shown that our genes do not determine our personality. Our genes provide us with many possible “blueprints” that our subconscious mind chooses to use or not use as it sees fit. In essence our comfort zone is simply a collection of habits that we have acquired over our lifetime.
When we were teenagers we were forced to stretch our comfort zones because of the changes that were naturally occurring in our lives as we made the transition from childhood into adulthood.
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