24 Comfort Zone Exercises for 2024

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.

1. Take a cold shower
2. Skip a meal
3. Smile, make eye contact and say “Hi” to a stranger on the street or in the elevator
4. Stand at the edge on top of something tall (building, cliff, bridge, etc.)
5. Take a different route or the long way
6. Sit on the floor
7. Sit in the front row
8. Order something that you have never tried from the menu 
9. Start a conversation with the person next to you on the airplane, or train, or bus.
10. Compliment a stranger
11. Attend a meetup event
12. Take an art class
13. Send an email to a former coworker
14. Send an email to a friend I haven’t spoken to in over a year
15. Send an email to a virtual mentor
16. Serve at a soup kitchen 
17. Exercise outside in the cold and/or rain
18. Interview for a new job (without needing a new job)
19. Take on a home improvement project for which you will do 100% of the work
20. Do 100 push-ups (or pull-ups, or air squats, or sit-ups, etc.) every day for 30 days
21. Publish articles for 30 consecutive days
22. Volunteer to lead a community event
23. Turn off your smartphone for an entire week
24. Write the book