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Day 12 - Step outside your comfort zone today |
Most of us do the same things day in day out, which becomes our comfort zone. Today go and do a familiar task in a completely different way. Drive to work along a different route. Try a different place to eat at lunch time. Watch a program on TV tha you would never watch. Read a magazine you would never buy. |
I made one very minor change but its effects were surprising. I swim every morning and for at least two years I start from one end of the pool counting as i go - so i have now come to identify one direction with an odd number and the other direction as even. I thought I'd reverse this routine as a way of stepping outside my comfort zone. |
Day 12 - Step outside your comfort zone today | ||
1 | How did you feel? | Not so much uncomfortable as alert. I was unable to switch off in quite the same way. |
2 | In what way did you find the challenge useful? Remember even if the challenge was negative this is an excellent learning for yourself. |
It seemed to clear the well worn pattern and I had to think from scratch, in a way. I couldn't rely on automatic pilot to do the job and so I had to think through the process as if for the first time. |
3 | What did you gain from the experience? | A sense that doing things in a different way can offer new ways of thinking about it - a new perspective on something that's seemingly written in stone. |
4 | What discoveries did you make about yourself? | Although this is only one example of change, I did enjoy doing a familiar thing in a different way, and maybe where I'm controlling the type of change, I can quite enjoy playing with it. |
3 | Would you do it again? | Yes, I intend to reverse my swim directions on a random basis, depending on whim. I'll also experiment with other routines. |