5 Comfort Zone KILLERS - How to Break Out of Your Comfort Zone

About this video

Clark Kegley presents five ways to break out of your comfort zone, suggesting viewers pick one to three and try them for a week, and noting many ideas come from his My Best Journal 2.0 30-day coaching program. First, feel the fear and do it anyway using the 3-second rule — act within 3 seconds before rationalizing yourself out of it, like jumping off a diving board, asking someone on a date, or starting a workout, while still using common sense for major decisions like investing. Second, dynamic tension, a concept he attributes to Brian Johnson: picture a rubber band between what you are doing and what you are capable of, and stretch it slightly — for example committing to the gym three times a week — without snapping it by trying everything at once. Third, simply try something, giving yourself permission to suck at first; he recounts how making hair products after a trip where other products damaged his hair led, after 200 to 400 formulas, to Kegley and Co. with his brother. Fourth, be active not passive, rather than watching from the sidelines like fans yelling at a coach on TV, and flip ‘why not me’ into openness. Fifth, project outward: imagine your life in 5 or 10 years if you do not act, using that negative projection like the stick rather than the carrot to motivate change.

Key takeaways

• Use the 3-second rule to act before your inner naysayer talks you out of low-risk steps.
• Keep dynamic tension in the sweet spot — stretch slightly beyond current behavior without snapping by doing everything at once.
• Try new things and give yourself permission to be bad at first; passion often follows trying.
• Be an active player rather than a passive spectator of other people’s success.
• Project outward to 5 or 10 years without action and use that negative picture as motivation.

Episode details: published September 13, 2017 · 10:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Clark Kegley’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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