20 Proven Strategies to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone for Success in Life.

“Get out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”Brian Tracy

I am a big fan of doing the unusual things. Sometimes in big ways. Often in small and daily ways to mix things up. Why? Because this habit is a simple and relatively easy way to:

Get out of your comfort zone.

And if you change your perspective on yourself from someone who sticks to the old and comfortable all the time to someone who likes to mix things up then it will feel more natural and easier to break out of your comfort zone when comes to bigger things too.

Because this habit makes the inner resistance and the fear that may hold you back smaller.

Add a spark to your day and come alive.

It keeps you from getting stuck in the same old daily or weekly rut. And it adds more fun to your life.

Refuel your curiousness about the world and life.

When you do the unusual thing regularly you to discover a ton of new and exciting things.

And that will refuel your curiousness about what else is out there that you haven’t discovered just yet.

So how do you do the unusual thing and break out of your comfort zone in small and sometimes bigger ways?

20 Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

1. Eat the Unusual things. Instead of choosing the meat-based dish at lunch try the vegetarian alternative. Or try the fish if you usually go for the beef.
2. Smile towards everyone. Instead of just going along with your day in your normal social way try smiling more. Smile more towards your co-workers, the lady at the checkout at the supermarket, the people closest to you and smile to yourself when you encounter a mirror. See what happens.
3. Cook Something New. Each week we try cooking a new recipe. It is most often a tasty experiment and helps us to find, sometimes unexpected, new favorites. It has also certainly made me a better cook in the last few years.
4. Mix up your music. I mix things up by trying new music every month. I have a look at the best music on sites like Metacritic. Then I load a few of those albums on Spotify and listen.
5. Work in complete silence and stillness. Shut the door to your office, shut off your music, unplug the internet and just focus on doing the most important thing you can do today while enjoying the silence.
6. Read something that your friends wouldn’t guess that you are reading. Doing this has helped me to expand my horizons and learn new skills and many, often unexpected things about the world around me.
7. Do all your shopping for the week. Instead of doing grocery shopping when you feel like it or need to, sit down and plan what you will eat and need for a whole week. Go and get all of that at the store. Now you don’t have to go back there for a week and you’ll probably have a bunch of extra free time (and less stress) to enjoy this week.
8. Have a day of kindness. Instead of having the usual bursts of irony, sarcasm etc. during your day try to go for a day where you are just being kind and friendly to everyone including yourself.
9. Enjoy it all. All fluctuations during your normal day is a part of life and as life it’s a gift in some way or another. So on some days I just tell myself: “enjoy it all”. Then I try to enjoy my day no matter if the inbox is overfull, if I’m hungry and starting to get cranky. The things I usually don’t like so much I tell myself to enjoy as a part of life. And so my day actually becomes more enjoyable because much of how we see life is about how we choose to think about it.
10. Watch something odd. If you usually watch thrillers then try a romantic comedy. If you most often get stuck with documentaries try an animated movie from Japan (I recommend anything by Hayao Miyazaki). If you love Family Guy, try The Wire. Expand what you watch to get new ideas and impressions.
11. Listen to the sound of the world. Leave your portable music player/app at home or shut off and in your pocket. Just listen to sounds of the city, nature and people as you move about during your day.
12. Take a day to be offline. I tend to spend a day a week offline (usually Saturday or Sunday). It’s a wonderful change of pace and feels like I’m on a small, healthy and extra relaxing vacation. Plus, it makes it more fun to get back to work on Monday.
13. Take a news black out. Instead of reading the paper or watching the news as usual try to go without that for a day. See how it affects you and how much you miss the news.
14. Hide a note for a loved one. Hide a sweet note of affection for a partner, family member or a friend in his or her cookie jar, tea or coffee container, book on the nightstand, hat, shoes or somewhere else where they look each day. Make him or her happy in an unexpected and unusual way.
15. Take a different route. To work or to school. To your gym or home. See something new even when you are in transport mode.
16. Walk or take the bicycle to work. Instead of taking the car or riding the bus as usual. Get some exercise and fresh air before it is time to start working and on your way home.
17. Let it go just for today. If you often get into arguments or have trouble letting issues go and replay them over and over in your mind then just for today let it all go. Tomorrow you can take up your old habits just where you left them. But for today, instead of getting into an argument just let it go and walk away. If you replay something in your mind, let it go for today. If an old memory pops up today too, let it go instead of dwelling.
18. Go out. If you usually stay in during the weekdays, then call up a few friends and head down to the pub for a few hours even if it’s just a Wednesday. Or call up someone you haven’t met in ages and go for a cup of tea or coffee. Or pop down to the movie theater and catch a movie. If you usually do those things though, consider just staying in with PJs on and taking it easy.
19. Sit in a new place. If you have favorite chair or part of the sofa where you always sit then try another chair or place to sit today. It can give you a new perspective at work or at home. And I have found that it can even give me some new and fresh thoughts and perspectives on life.
20. Throw out the things you haven’t used in 1 year. Go through one part of your home – a closet, a drawer in your desk or bedroom cabinet – and see what’s in there. Go through the items one by one and ask yourself: Have I used this item in the past year? If not, give the item(s) away to charity or a friend or simply throw it out.

Why it Pays to Be Hungry | Les Brown | Motivational and Inspirational – 2020

START YOUR DAY BY READING SOMETHING MOTIVATING TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS.

STORY OF LES BROWN: “HOW HE ACHIEVED HIS DREAM JOB AND GOALS IN HIS LIFE

I was identified as mentally retarded student and put-back from the fifth grade into the fourth grade and I stayed in that category until I got out of high school.  I don’t have any college training, but I met a high school teacher, who one day changed my life. I was waiting for another student, when he came in and he said to me, “Young man, go to the board “and write what I’m going to tell you.” And I said, “I can’t do that, sir.” And he said, “Why not?” I said, “I’m not one of your students.” He said, “It doesn’t matter” just follow my directions now. I said, “I can’t do that, sir.”

He said, “Why not?”

I said, “Because I’m educable mentally retarded.”

And he came from behind his desk and he looked at me. He said that don’t ever say that again.

“Someone’s opinion about you does not have to become your reality.”

As he talked, my heart began to beat fast. Tears began to come out from my eyes and I was sitting in the back just listening to him, because the speech he was delivering that speech was for me.

He said, Les Brown,

“if you want to do anything worthwhile in your life, you’ve to be hungry!”

I told him, “Mister Washington, “I wanted to become a disc jockey.” And that’s so I started working to develop myself as disc jockey.

He said,

“I want you to practice every single day as disk jockey.” I said, “But I don’t have any job now.” He said, “It doesn’t matter.

He said that

“it’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not to have one, than to have an opportunity and not to be prepared.”

And as I was working to develop myself as disc jockey, I applied for a job of disk jockey at WNB on Miami Beach. I went and met to a guy named as Milton Butterball. I said, “How are you, Mister Butterball?

“I would like to do a job of a disk jockey.” He looked at me and he said, “Do you have any broadcasting background?” I said, “No, sir, I don’t have any.”

Do you have any journalism background? I said, “No, sir, I don’t have.

“He said to me, we don’t have any jobs available.

“I said, “Yes, sir.”

I went back to Mister Washington and told him. He said, “Don’t take it personally.”He said,

“Most people are so negative, they will say no seven times before they will say yes.”

He said, “Go back to him again.”

So, I went back again. I said, “How are you, Mister Butterball?

My name is Les Brown.

He said, I know that what is your name?

“What do you want?” I said, “I’d like to know whether or not you have any jobs as a disk jockey, sir.” He said, “Didn’t I just tell you yesterday “we didn’t have any jobs?” I said, “Yes, sir, but I didn’t know whether or not somebody got laid off or somebody was fired, sir.” He said, “No one was laid off or fired, “Now, get out of here.

“I came back the next day, like I was seeing him for the first time. I said, “Hello, Mister Butterball.

“How are you?”

He looked at me with rage.

He said, “Go and bring some coffee for me!”

I said, “Yes, sir.”

And I went to bring coffee for him, for a while. After that I also bring food for him for his lunch and dinner.  Similarly, I also went to the control rooms and I also bring food for disc jockeys as well.  I stayed in the control room until I was asked to leave.

One Saturday afternoon while I was at the radio station, a guy name Rock was drinking while he was live on radio.  I was alone there, looking at him through the control room windows, walking back and forth, young, ready, and hungry.  Pretty soon the phone rang, and it was the general manager. And I answered the phone. I said, “Hello?” He said, “Les, I am Mister Kline speaking.”

I said, “I know sir.” He said, “Rock is not being able to finish his program.” I said, “I know sir.” He said, “Would you like to call one of the other DJs to come in?” I said, “Yes, sir.” I hung the phone up. I said, now he must be thinking I’m crazy. I called my mom and my girlfriend Cassandra. I said them turn-on the radio and bring it to the front porch. I’m about to coming live on radio.

I waited for about 20 minutes, and I phone the GM back. I said, “Mister Kline, I can’t find anyone.” He said, “Young boy, do you know how to work with the controls?” I said, “Yes, sir.” He said, “Go in there and don’t need to tell anyone about this.” I said, “Yes, sir.”

I was desperate and couldn’t wait to sit behind those controls. I put on old Stevie Wonder record called Fingertips. I sat down behind that turn-table. I said, “Look out! This is me, LB Triple-P”, “Les Brown, your platter-playing popper.

“There was no one before me, and there will be no one after me, therefore that makes me the one and only.”

Young, single and to be loved, certified, bonafide and indubitably qualified “to brink you satisfaction and a whole lot of action”. “Look out baby, I’m your love man.” I was hungry!

I was hungry!

You got to be hungry! Begin to know that you have greatness within you, and if just one of you here began to envision yourselves as being blessed and highly favored to reach your goals, if just one of you captured the essence of what that means, that you have greatness in you and a responsibility to manifest that greatness, that you can make your parents proud, you can make your school proud, you can touch millions of people’s lives, and the world will never be the same again because you came this way.

One thing I want to tell you, it was hard; ladies and gentlemen that coming to speak to people and I was also facing financial difficulties in my own life. I was behind on my bills and my dreams, and I was telling, you can live your dreams! It was hard, ladies and gentlemen. It was very difficult to pick myself each day and believing on that I can do it. There were times that I doubted on myself. I used to ask myself, can I do this? And something said within me, you’re the one. Don’t give up on your dreams. By continuing to push forward, by continuing to run toward my dream, that one day I would have my own talk-show.

It’s a long shot, ladies and gentlemen, from Liberty City in an abandoned building on a floor, never knowing about my mother and father. It’s a long shot. Being here with you today in this Dome in Atlanta, it’s a long shot. No college training. Labeled educable mentally retarded, but I kept running toward my dreams.

Don’t stop!

“Don’t stop running toward your dream!”

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10 MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES FOR ACHIEVING SUCCESS IN LIFE

Whenever we read or heard a famous quote that hits home, made us changed the way us feel about something?

These words can be compelling and can motivate or inspire us, but many times these feelings are short-lived as we forget these quotes. It is important to remember and hold on to quotes that excite us and create positive thoughts when we are in a difficult or challenging situation, such as during a job search.

Given below is a list of quotes which will help us especially during job search. As you come across ones that create positive thoughts, write them on post-it notes and stick them around or write them in your journal so you can easily refer to them, this might sound a bit trivial, but give it a try and see how it will help you maintain a positive outlook.

Quote to Keep You on Track

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you so have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“When you’re passionate about your job and career, success comes naturally and peacefully in both your personal and professional life” – Tom Powner

“Don’t be defined by your past, your past is the tutor of your present and is always preparing you for new experience. Forget about disappointment or any past mistakes that is keeping you from moving forward. Its never too late for a new beginning.” – Kemmy Nola

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” .” – Confucius

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining” – John F Kennedy

“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Ted Turner

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot

I hope you would like our choice of Quotes and these will help you to think positive in difficult times.

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING.

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· Believe in yourself and in everything you do
· Build new power and determination
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