Comments on: Self-Help Myths: Expand Your Comfort Zone http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/ One of the longest running and most respected productivity blogs on the net! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:02:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeffy http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-28194 Jeffy Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:30:34 +0000 http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/#comment-28194 You, as with many self-help purveyors, are missing the subject intent. It's about increasing what you are comfortable with. You end your piece with, "Effectively, your comfort zone is your base of operations, your place of strength." Wouldn't a person want to expand, improve, or enhance his place of strength? If a person handled a specific scenario poorly (based on results) because of fear and antipathy, wouldn't that person want to learn how to overcome, or at least better manage, that fear in preparation for future similar scenarios? You, as with many self-help purveyors, are missing the subject intent. It’s about increasing what you are comfortable with. You end your piece with, “Effectively, your comfort zone is your base of operations, your place of strength.” Wouldn’t a person want to expand, improve, or enhance his place of strength?

If a person handled a specific scenario poorly (based on results) because of fear and antipathy, wouldn’t that person want to learn how to overcome, or at least better manage, that fear in preparation for future similar scenarios?

]]> By: Simple Productivity Blog http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-27885 Simple Productivity Blog Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:02:42 +0000 http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/#comment-27885 By: Summy http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-21503 Summy Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:48:25 +0000 http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/#comment-21503 Agreed. I would emphasize, don't change for the sake of change and don't make random changes. Make systematic changes that you can build on. If your goal is to be more approachable, don't just smile at a stranger on Tuesday. Smile at a stranger every day till you're good at it. Then work on listening more during your conversations <em>everyday</em>, etc... Agreed. I would emphasize, don’t change for the sake of change and don’t make random changes. Make systematic changes that you can build on. If your goal is to be more approachable, don’t just smile at a stranger on Tuesday. Smile at a stranger every day till you’re good at it. Then work on listening more during your conversations everyday, etc…

]]> By: LJ http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-21345 LJ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:27:45 +0000 http://www.organizeit.co.uk/2008/02/18/self-help-myths-expand-your-comfort-zone/#comment-21345 I think the idea of reaching outside your comfort zone is more applicable to learned behaviors than new experiences. For example, it is comfortable to stay in the addiction of smoking. Reaching outside the comfort zone of that addiction is the only way to break it. I believe this applies as well to other, possibly unhealthy, reactions/responses that we might have been schooled in since birth. I think the idea of reaching outside your comfort zone is more applicable to learned behaviors than new experiences. For example, it is comfortable to stay in the addiction of smoking. Reaching outside the comfort zone of that addiction is the only way to break it. I believe this applies as well to other, possibly unhealthy, reactions/responses that we might have been schooled in since birth.

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