I’ve learned to listen to my comfort zone. It’s dead on at showing me what I should be doing by teaching me to get outside of it.
Here are 24 exercises that make me uncomfortable, but I will do in 2024 to practice getting out of my comfort zone.
- Take a cold shower
- Skip a meal
- Smile, make eye contact and say “Hi” to a stranger on the street or in the elevator
- Stand at the edge on top of something tall (building, cliff, bridge, etc.)
- Take a different route or the long way
- Sit on the floor
- Sit in the front row
- Order something that you have never tried from the menu
- Start a conversation with the person next to you on the airplane, or train, or bus.
- Compliment a stranger
- Attend a meetup event
- Take an art class
- Send an email to a former coworker
- Send an email to a friend I haven’t spoken to in over a year
- Send an email to a virtual mentor
- Serve at a soup kitchen
- Exercise outside in the cold and/or rain
- Interview for a new job (without needing a new job)
- Take on a home improvement project for which you will do 100% of the work
- Do 100 push-ups (or pull-ups, or air squats, or sit-ups, etc.) every day for 30 days
- Publish articles for 30 consecutive days
- Volunteer to lead a community event
- Turn off your smartphone for an entire week
- Write the book
