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Comfort zone

how to push myself out of my routine

The comfort zone is the range of action where your predicted outcome and your actual outcome match closely enough that you feel no threat. It expands only by being exceeded, which is why it shrinks in people who stop testing its edge.

What to do about it

Do one thing weekly whose outcome you genuinely cannot predict.

Books that work on this

Each is a 90-day programme. Start with the first — later books assume the work in the earlier ones.

Part of the Warrior series.

How people say it

Nobody looks this up by its clinical name. These are the ways it actually gets said.

  • I feel stuck doing the same things
  • scared to try new stuff
  • life feels small
  • how to push myself out of my routine
  • I avoid anything I might be bad at
  • nothing changes and it is my fault
  • why does new stuff terrify me
  • I need to shake things up

Written by Brian Spiker, who has run Spiker Carpet and Tile Care since 2013 — the receipts. More terms in the encyclopedia.

About the author

Brian Spiker has run Spiker Carpet and Tile Care since 2013 — a real service business with real customers, real Google reviews, and 13 years of work most self-help authors will never do.

He writes the way operators talk: brutal, funny, and built from work that actually has to get done. Verify everything at spikercarpetandtilecare.com.