Evolving Life
Evolving Life
Challenge Yourself
What would happen if you challenge yourself and push beyond your comfort zone? It certainly would feel uncomfortable. Any time you reaching beyond what’s comfortable It’s never easy, but it is an effort worth making because it’s one way you can live your life optimally. When you strive to do more, you can gain a better understanding of your limitations. You can also awaken that internal part of you that’s willing to grow and expand.
So I am asking you Evolvers, are you challenging yourself? Are you pushing yourself to move even a little beyond your comfort zone? Let’s explore why you should and how to get comfortable with sometimes being uncomfortable in some areas of your life.
Any time you reaching beyond what’s comfortable, it’s never easy, but it is an effort worth making because it’s one way you can live your life optimally.
When you challenge yourself and strive to do more, you can gain a better understanding of your limitations. You can also awaken that internal part of you that’s willing to grow and expand.
Are you pushing yourself to move even a little beyond your comfort zone? Let’s explore why you should and how to get comfortable with sometimes being uncomfortable in some areas of your life.
What's the benefit of Challenging Yourself?
I’ve already mentioned two benefits is being able to gauge your limitations and increasing your ability to grow and expand. There are more benefits I want to highlight. Benefits that I don’t think many of us realize we can achieve when we don’t just settle for what’s familiar.
For instance, did you know that when you challenge yourself, you are building your self-confidence? Imagine that by pushing your boundaries and succeeding at whatever prompted you to push a little harder, your confidence will soar.
That you will feel as if you can achieve more. Ask anyone who’ve achieved something despite it being hard, or even when it feels uncomfortable, what they feel when they realize they accomplish it, whatever that it was.
I am sure the first thing they will tell you about is that amazing feeling of confidence. Of believing in him or herself in such an intense way that they could only describe as remarkable aplomb.
Challenge Yourself And Take Control Of Your Life.
What happens when you feel confident and you accomplish the task and goals you set and your confidence escalates?
You not only become more optimistic, but you become productive. You realize you can handle and solve problems more easily. And even better, you feel less stressed when tackling those problems.
Challeng Yourself And Experience That feeling you get when you try harder and succeed
I like to describe the feeling of pushing yourself and accomplishing what you were determined to accomplish as the rush you get when you finish a 5K, or just before you cross the finish line and the endorphins kicks in and that feeling of elation takes hold. It doesn’t matter if you were the winner, only that you did it, you crossed the finish line. You pushed yourself and accomplish something that’s phenomenal to you.
Our current president like to stress his points by saying “Folks.” I am going to copy him by saying folks, Challenging yourself can determine whether you succeed triumphantly, or fail with excuses. It’s really that simple.
Here are a few more benefits of challenging yourself that you may not realize.
1. You Get More Focus
The act will improve clarity, which contributes to your decision-making skills. When you can focus and have clarity, you also increase your ability to maintain the momentum when trying to accomplish your goals and tasks.
2. Challenging yourself reinforces motivation
When you challenge yourself, you increase your ability to engage. And as you create your plan to implement your tasks or goals, your commitment increase, as your game plan falls into place and you see that your implementation is working.
3. When you challenge yourself, it encourages change
It’s a fact, change is unavoidable, it’s the constant in life. Most of us have a hard time accepting change because we are comfortable and attached to old habits. But When you choose to step outside of your comfort zone, and push ourselves, that is when you grow.
4. Challenging yourself enhances creativity.
One of the most powerful attribute to have is creativity. It’s key for when you want to generate new ideas. One way to activate your creative muscle and think innovatively is by getting out of your comfort zone. When you can broaden your perspective and think open-minded, there are so many roadblocks in life you can’t overcome.
Episode Highlights
- The ability to guage your limitations and self-growth are benefits.
- You can also handle and solve problems more effectively.
- A feeling you experience is similar to finishing a 5K and the endorphins kicks in.
- Your decision making skills improves.
- Challenging yourself enhances creativity.
- The guidelines are actually simple.
- Roadblocks can prevent a proactive approach such as challenging yourself.
- Cynical thinking is one of those roadblocks.
- Don't negate the benefit of support.
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