Do You Recognize Your Comfort Zones and How They Impact You?
Everyone has multiple comfort zones that they exist within.
One of the biggest challenges I have when it comes to walking my chosen life path is moving out of my comfort zones.
Even when a given comfort zone is unideal and maybe unhelpful to me and my life, that doesn’t mean leaving it is ever easy. Why? Because comfort zones are comfortable due to their familiarity. And the familiar is often comforting — even when not good for us.
While I’m working on writing novels I’m also doing a multifaceted part-time job that’s a blend of administration, management, public relations, writing, digital, and creative work. I’ve also started a new paid gig writing blogs on specific topics requiring research on my part.
To juggle the demands of both jobs, I’ve had to be more diligent about my time management. This has had the effect of pulling me out of my comfort zone.
The reality is that I need to leave this comfort zone behind.
Why? Because since I work from home exclusively, I’m wholly responsible for how I use my time. There are deadlines to be met that require me to manage my time more effectively than I have been. And that impacts a comfort zone.
