How to Stop Procrastinating and Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

Mona Benjamintz
Nov 18, 2019
2 min read

Silhouetted young woman with a backpack and suitcase walks in an airport terminal, large windows reveal planes on the tarmac, blue sky. The woman is looking out the windows to the planes on the tarmac.

Do you have a dream that’s tugging at your soul, one that sounds fantastic but you’ve been avoiding it because it seems daunting? You've got to stop procrastinating and step out of your comfort zone! To make it happen, you may need to pull yourself out of the comfort of your current status quo and push yourself towards taking some risks.

From rut to risk.

Think back to past accomplishments you’ve achieved that have improved your life. Were some uncomfortable steps necessary to make them happen? You've survived those, right? If you’re looking to enhance your life, chances are that some risk is necessary to get there. You've done it before. You can do it again!

But it’s so comfortable to stay put where I am.

When the pain of change seems more uncomfortable than the pain of staying the same, you're in a rut: it’s tough to be motivated to take a risk that will take you closer to your reward. How can you get motivated to move from rut to risk? This will take some forward thinking about time and about yourself.

Time waits for no one.

It’s so easy to get caught up in our day to day lives, distracted with minutiae that keep us rolling along in the ‘same old, same old’. A big dream may take years to accomplish. Those years will pass regardless of whether you take action or not. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if at the end of those years, instead of living the same routine you’ve got now, you’re closer to your dream? We've all got a limited amount of time in this world - will you stop procrastinating and step out of your comfort zone?

What would your future self say?

In the present, maintaining your status quo may look pretty attractive. But what about the future you? When the future version of you looks back on today’s version of you, will it be with satisfaction and pride or regret? Your future self is counting on you!