Outside the comfort zone

The comfort zone; a very beautiful word used for being too ignorant and coward, It’s the living style of the pathetic (in my humble opinion of course).But if one wants anything good to happen in his life he must do something about it (and I stated just the obvious).But what is that something and how do we do it, (what we do is take a small step into the discomfort or just take a jump into, whichever suits your fancy) the best example which I can think as of now is taking a cold shower because its damn cold here and I hate cold showers. I wanna ask this to you have you ever tried to take a cold shower in a cold morning? Even the thought itself is terrifying but let’s just break the activity: you are just thinking that today you might take a cold shower and you’re scared already then suppose you actually have decided and you go to the bathroom shivering with cold thinking that this might not be the best decision or you might catch cold or the shower might exaggerate your sinus issues, and you feed yourself every possible bullshit reason to bail out from the situation and then if you can fight those reasons you might step into the shower. What do feel then? For that the answer is you feel nothing it’s just cold water that’s it and it can’t harm you and all that fear and discomfort was just loads of crap you kept on feeding yourself.

Life too is very similar to the experience of taking a cold shower, any opportunity it provides you with is preceded by a series of feelings like excitement, fear, shame, disgust and lack of confidence but when you do overcome these you understand that all they were doing was to stop you from doing something good or great. Since I have taken the example of a cold shower let’s see  what its benefits are; It improves your immune system, promotes fat loss, enhances circulation bla bla bla these are not the benefits I’m concerned about because I would run a 5k if I have to reduce fact. The listed so called benefits can be obtained from various things but what’s special about cold showers is not the physical health results but the psychological outcomes it yields. Think of a person who has taken a cold shower in the month of December before 6:00 am, now do you think person would be even least concerned that’s its cold out there and he should apply for a leave from work. Or will that person get pissed off when the water in the public restroom isn’t warm or any other daily hassle for that matter. What I want to say by this is; the person by doing just a simple task daily (it’s a task for some) one might develop ‘Emotional Resilience’. By continuously forcing yourself to do something which scares you the most you are now training your brain to do something you’re not comfortable with because our neurons works and fire on the associations the more you do something the more you want to do that thing which in this case would be leaving your comfort zone and stepping into growth and actualization.

So, I would like you to take a 30 day cold shower challenge with me coz as much as I hate to admit this but it’s true that the only thing that wakes me up better than a cup of coffee is a cold shower,

And once you’re into the challenge then observe what kind of a person are you, do you succumb to your bullshit lies and excuses or do you overcome them and do something.