The term comfort zone is a coping strategy. I can’t count the times someone said to me, Hey Matt, I want to get out of my comfort zone. If it‘s comfortable, why get out? If you have reached a state of complacency, a state of just getting through the day somehow okay … how is this comfortable?
Whoever came up with the term comfortzone to describe an unwanted state might have done it with the best intentions. Same as the people who started calling problems “challenges” to try to hide the painful parts of problems. But good intentions are no guarantee for good results.
So watch your words as they reflect your inner workings. If there’s a state of mind that you would like to be in, love to be in, then this is your comfort zone. Find another term, another word for the state that you want to get out of.
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