I’m not stepping outside my comfort zone…

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone, it’s often said

The notion that this statement plants in your head

Is that to be successful, you should push to be

Uncomfortable because only then you would see

Favorable results, growth and progress

Going outside comfort zone is the way to success…

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Being uncomfortable is, well, not pleasant

And while it is tolerable to a brief extent

Constantly being out of your comfort zone

Invites stress, increases your sympathetic tone

Yes you achieve because risks you take

The rewards are high and high are the stakes

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Now let me propose a different paradigm to you

What if you could thrive within your comfort zone too?

You would be comfortable, relaxed and without

That sympathetic surge of adrenaline throughout

In order to grow, instead of stepping outside

You would expand your comfort zone from inside

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You find your happy place where you know

You can be productive, be in the state of flow

In predictable comfort high-quality work you start

Being relaxed, you can pour all your heart

Into your project, you explore tools new

To expand beyond what you could initially do

You add a new skill, and increase the size

Of your comfort zone, staying galvanized

In your work, without taking on extra stress

Eventually you know you have made progress

While staying within your zone of comfort

After all, being comfortable cannot hurt!