My Comments on a post from Tina Gill in the Ultimate Breakthrough 2022 Challenge Official Tony Robbins Community:

Not necessarily so! 

In fact, you want to have the largest comfort zone possible - because the larger it is, the more masterful you feel in more areas of your life. 

When you have a large comfort zone, you can take risks that really shift you. 

Drawing intellectual cues from bestselling author and fear expert Rhonda Britten, founder of the Fearless Living Institute: 

"Our comfort is our safe place. Whatever is your norm, whatever your life is right now, whatever you're not even thinking about changing - that's your CZ. 

Some people call it a rut. It's not a rut; it's life. It's the things that are regular, that are predictable, that cause no mental or emotional strain and stress. 

Our CZ is where we go to recharge in an ever-changing world. It's our place of reprieve, where we can conserve our energy and not have to figure anything out. 

People often don't honor the CZs they've created; they think it's wrong or bad to need one. It's not! If you deny that you have a CZ or pretend that you don't need one, you'll be stressed all the time. 

When you want to make a life change, build off your existing CZ instead of revamping everything at once." 

She recommends a strategy, "Stretch, Risk and Die" to help expand the possibilities in your own life: 

"1) Stretch yourself: First, focus your efforts. Answer the question, "In what area of my life would making positive change have the most impact?" (Maybe it's your health, or your job, or your love life...) Once you have the answer, come up with three things you've been feeling you "should" do in that area, and do one of them... today; 

2) Staying on the same theme you chose for stretch, give something up. Make it difficult. Make it scary. Make it be something you never thought you could achieve. Giving up sugar (or alcohol, or meat, or caffeine, or gluten) for a month? No Sundays spent couch-potatoing it this season? No more hiding in the corner at parties... ever? Yes; 

3) Sticking to your theme, ask yourself this question: "It would be so awesome if I could XYZ, but that's just not who I am." Then (you guessed it!) take action toward actually doing that XYZ. Quitting your job and going back to school at age 35? Chairing an important company-wide meeting? Traveling abroad alone, to a country where no one speaks English? Yes, yes and triple yes. Take steps to make it happen." 

Her parting shot: 

"What's a die for you may just be a stretch for somebody else," notes Britten. "It's about emotions and mindset. As you begin to stretch, risk and die, your CZ will grow, and you'll find that things that used to be dies to you are now just risks. Unlike typical goal-setting - which can be detrimental because it focuses too much on outcome - expanding your CZ is about motivating and inspiring yourself in a way that honors your whole person. It's not 'I'm going to be good at everything,' it's about not being scared to try." 

Godspeed.

Don't leave your Comfort Zone. Expand your Comfort Zone!