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Chasing Discomfort

This blog post I’m going to write about today is something I want to have more of. I want to be chasing discomfort and understanding why it’s important for growth.

The world we live in today is getting more and more comfortable compared if you looked back 200 years ago.

Life has never been easier. You want food, we just go to the Supermarket or if we want to wash our clothes we just use the washing machine.

We don’t have to hunt any more and we definitely don’t have to wash our clothes by hand. Of course around the world, not everyone is living in comfort but on the whole, especially in the western world, we are for sure.

Looking Back On Past Experiences

When we look back on our own life, of course, we see the challenges and the hurdles we have faced. When I looked deeper and analysed my past it just shows me how comfortable a lot of my life has been.

In the short term, comfortability feels great like a warm shower or comfy bed to snuggle into. In the long term is the habit of being comfortable making us happy or is it creating amazing moments.

When we feel comfortable that’s a sign that we are safe and that was important thousands of years ago to know when we should rest the body and mind. When it comes to a fulfilling life it just doesn’t cut it.

Prime examples in my life of when being comfortable held me back were when I worked in sales and marketing. Before I joined the company I thought tooth and nail to get it.

Within my first weeks, I was engaged and was learning at a rapid rate. Then when I applied all the information I became great at it.

Then the learning stopped, I knew everyone and everything and it became autopilot and that’s when I stopped progressing and as the months went on, I was on the decline and I didn’t know why.

Reflecting Why Being Comfortable Can Hold You Back

On reflection, it was down to finding my comfortability zone. This zone doesn’t want you to learn, meet new people or push yourself for the next challenge, it just wants you to stay where you are, and that’s safe.

I have countless experiences where being comfortable has held me back and I’m sure you have to. How frustrating is it when you look back and you didn’t say yes to something that would have been life-changing or just an amazing experience.

It came to point in my life at 30 where this can no longer go on. This can not be my norm for the rest of my life. Especially after seeing it make people miserable with their choices and actions as they have got older.

So I have challenged my self to chase discomfort on a regular basis. Is it going to be difficult? HELL YES! Everything inside you is going to say “no don’t do it just be comfortable”. That’s when we have to consciously take over and say “YES LETS JUST DO IT”

Some things I have challenged myself do are,

Create a YouTube channel and post weekly
Post pictures of myself and my story on social media
Do Yoga every day for 30 days
Climb the 3 peaks of the United Kingdom

All 4 definitely make me feel out of my comfort zone. So I challenge you to find 4 things for the next 30 days, that you can overcome your fear or doubt of by taking action and chasing discomfort.

Hang Around The Right People

Within your life, you will have many different challenges you have to overcome. Make sure you tap into that. It will give you the confidence to know you can do it again.

Plus having people around you who motivate and hold you accountable is important for your ability to persevere in the challenge.

Of course when you start telling people what you’re going to do. You’re going to find two types of people. The ones that will say “This is an amazing idea, I’ve always wanted to this too, your so brave” and you have someone else say “You are crazy, it’s never going to work”

Please do not listen to the latter because they are just giving you their own insecurity on how they think they can’t do it. Trust me you definitely can, we are designed to overcome challenges. It’s all in the mind.

Track Your Progress

When you start your challenges make sure you have a journal or a wall chart to track your progress.

Digesting your progress is so valuable to unlocking your accomplishments. It allows you to see where you need to improve. You can either do this by writing it down or videoing yourself. Plus one day someone may need help with overcoming the challenge your facing.

Some challenges need a visual aid to show your progress. For instance, doing the 30-day mile club where on the first of the month you run 1 mile. Then increase it a mile each day.

Tracking your progress not only shows what you have achieved. It shows the vision of how you’re going to achieve the task which both are motivational.

Find A Mentor

When starting any challenge you know it’s going have a lot more downs than ups. That’s why it can be important to have a mentor. They can either guide you or motivate you towards your goals.

You can find these mentors anywhere. You can watch them on Youtube and see how they broke through the barriers of their journey or you could hire one.

On any journey whether your an athlete or starting a business. Having a mentor helps you get to your endpoint faster rather than you having to go the long way around.

As painful and fun that might be, it’s not the smartest route you can take.

To Conclude

I hope this gives you greater insight into chasing discomfort and why it’s important for growth. Also why it’s important to apply it in your daily life.

Since I have been conscious of this I have become more confident, daring and adventurous because of it. It’s still a journey I’m on but one that’s so rewarding.

Imagine living a life where you don’t fear anything because you have overcome them all. That’s a life worth living and one where anything is possible.

So make a list of what discomforts you want to overcome. Then comment them below and where we can track your progress. Maybe one day we can do them together.

FUTURE MINDSET

At Future Mindset, we are here to push the boundaries of our thoughts and actions. By chasing discomfort in our lives, it can lead us to unlock things inside us we never knew was there. Let’s change our mindset to change our future.

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Chase discomfort and have a great day wherever you are!

Have you ever forgotten an important task you was meant to do? Or you just woke up and couldn’t be bothered to work out? This pretty much summed up my life. Until I became more productive using a habit tracker.

Don’t get me wrong some days I was focused and action-orientated towards daily tasks. Then other days when I didn’t feel like it. Nothing ever got done, unless it had to be done. I was living a yo-yo life and I was just getting short term success.

The Decision To Change

I decided I wanted to make a change to progress my life further. I did some research into how to make habits a consistent daily practice and stick.

My research led to many studies with a differing point of views. Some studies say it takes 21 days for a habit to stick. While others ranged from 66 to 200 days. My overall finding showed that it doesn’t matter how many days it takes to form a habit, it’s about making the habit stick. The only for a habit to stick is by doing it every day until it’s a part of your life.

To get me started I decided on 90 days habit tracker so I could review my progress 3 times at the end of each month.

What Was My Intention

I started the project with 5 goals I wanted to progress on personally.

To write a minimum of 100 words a day for my blog that I’ve always put off.
A press up challenge to increase my upper body strength
Daily gratitude to focus the mind on the positives of life
Visualising my future goals so I had a clear path to create strategies
Reading for 30 minutes a day to make sure I’m educating my mind.

My Plan Of Action

Whenever I start something fresh. I feel excited which I think a lot of people can relate to. The first week was no different and I was enjoying the progress.

What helped was the sheet I made. It was split up into 3 months and 30 boxes in each segment that I could tick off daily. Then on the side, it had why I wanted to do this, what benefits I would get from completing it and a reward on completion. This allowed me to stay focused and have a purpose for doing it and this helped me stay engaged.

The First Two Months Of The Habit Tracker

As the weeks pursued thanks to the visual aid I was sticking to the task. It’s really important when setting new habits that they are in front of your mind’s eye throughout your day especially as you wake up. The reason being is that you need to be conscious of them because the habit has not formed in the subconscious fully. This will make it difficult to rely on yourself to perform the task without thinking. I have tended to forget until before bed which isn’t the best way to go to sleep on the sense of failure.

At the end of the first month, I reviewed myself and found I had progressed rather well. Instead of writing 100 words, I was writing an average of 500 words and I had gone from 20 press-ups to 120 press-ups. This showed to me the huge benefit of not only developing these habits but the foundation you can set for yourself to build even stronger foundations. This is what people have realised when forming a new habit. It’s what you do today that could make dramatic changes in your future. Just like when people explain how to grow money with an index fund with the terminology compound effect. You are compound affecting your habits to a better standing.

The Third Month Of The Habit Tracker

Into my third month, momentum has kicked in and made these habits fixated in my mind. They are now being done without thinking and are part of a set routine I do every morning. The benefits have been psychologically great with my mind becoming more focused and productive. The new habits have to give me a great slingshot throughout my day to achieve more. The physical benefits have transpired because of these daily practices with a fitter body and a blog that produces a minimum of 3 posts a week now.

After completing the 90-day habit checker, a sense of great achievement filled my body. A sense of profoundness in my ability to stick to this sheet and the discipline it has developed in me.

Weeks later I reviewed if I was continuing all the habits I had learned. The answer thankfully was a resounding YES! They are now a part of my everyday routine where it would be weird if I didn’t do it. I only wish I would have done it sooner.

Too Conclude

The reason why I wrote this post is that by knowing why the 90-day habits tracker works. It can work for you to form habits you have always wanted to develop. So if you follow my tips – I’m sure you can achieve your success. What 3- 5 habits would you like to achieve in the next 90 days?

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Chase discomfort and have a great day wherever you are!

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