11 Uncomfortable Things You Should Start With Today
Do not wait until a new year begins — Start now
The fact is, many people want to change things every year anew, reach new goals, implement good intentions… And then unfortunately often fail within the first weeks of implementation!
Because humans are comfortable. Humans are creatures of habit! We all like to choose the easiest, coziest, or the most pragmatic way to avoid new or unpleasant situations.
But what would it do to you and your life if you left your comfort zone and started to do what might not be easy but is extremely valuable?
Therefore, get involved with the following 11 uncomfortable things that you should start with TODAY and at the end of this year, you will realize: “WOW — 2020 was my year!”
1. Leave Your Comfort Zone!
Do you always go to the same Italian? Do you specifically take over the tasks you already know at work? Or have you been going to the same sports club for years, where you meet the people you have been meeting there for years? Knowing what you are getting into gives you security.
But how can things change if your habits and preferences always remain the same?
To change the big or small things in your life, you have to dare to leave your comfort zone every day — even if it seems uncomfortable at that moment! But this is the only way you can expand your horizon, see and use new possibilities for yourself and get new impulses that can bring you forward in life!
2. Approach New People And Get To Know Them
Open-minded and interested — these two things can make interpersonal relationships a real enrichment for you. New people bring you new ways of thinking, new inspiration, new ideas. Each person has their own history, their own experiences, values, and attitudes.
Take the chance to approach people and get in contact with them for your personal development. Every person brings something with them that you can use positively for yourself.
3. Strengthen Your Self-Confidence And Self-Esteem
Trust yourself and be aware of your personality, your strengths, and your successes. This is the only way you can reach your goals. Reflect on yourself and talk about it with others. What have you achieved in your life? What have you done well? What is important to you and what do you want to achieve for yourself? What do others appreciate about you? What do you often get positive feedback for?
Become aware of your abilities and don’t think about whether someone else might think something bad about you. You know who you are, what you can do, and what you want. This way you will be able to approach your projects with energy and automatically convince the people around you of your abilities.
4. Spend More Time With The Important People
Does it sometimes take you a lot of effort to leave your comfortable sofa after a hard day to have a glass of wine in the bar around the corner instead of at home? Does the thought of not just turning on the TV after work, but instead talking to someone else seem too tiring to you sometimes? Understandable.
It’s probably not only for you. And yet: as uncomfortable as it may seem to you sometimes, get out of your passivity. Let the people who are important to you take part in your life. Talk about yourself and share — this can help you to process your day and reflect on things.
Because the people who are important to you in your life know you well, they give you strength and let you feel how beautiful life is. Listen to your dearest people and get involved with their thoughts — do something good for them and you will see that it does you good. Take these positive energies into your everyday life and use them for yourself.
5. Increase Your Productivity And Work More Focused
Nothing is more satisfying than the feeling of having accomplished something. Therefore, set yourself realistic goals, eliminate disruptive factors — be it the smartphone or your own thought loops — and throw yourself into your next/most important task.
Allow yourself breaks in which you can do yourself some good and switch off, and then get back to work at full speed. At the end of each day, be aware of what you have achieved today and be proud of yourself.
6. Start Making Your Happiness Your Priority
You are important. It is not always about making others happy. It may — yes, it must! — be about you. Put your focus consciously on yourself and allow yourself to put your happiness first. What makes you happy? Be aware of this and actively integrate these things into your everyday life. Only if you are happy and take care of yourself can you pass on your happiness to others and the world.
7. Stop Living In The Past Or The Future
Concentrate on the here and now. Because today is the tomorrow of yesterday and the yesterday of tomorrow. Stop waiting for tomorrow or dwelling in thoughts in the past. Start enjoying the moment, because now is the moment you were waiting for yesterday.
8. Begin To Be Kinder And More Loving To Yourself
Tame your inner critic. In times in which performance has an enormously high value in our society, we should be able to perform at any time and should be able to perform on-demand and within the shortest time, the inner critic is often not far away. He tells you that you are not good enough, not fast enough, not talented enough.
But in order to achieve your goals and realize ideas, you have to silence the inner critic who acts like a barrier and slows you down. Don’t be too hard on yourself, because you are good enough. Give your best, that is enough. Be good to yourself and forgive yourself if you could not manage something the way you wanted to. You have given your best and the next chance will come.
9. Start Eating Healthier
“Do something good for your body so that the soul may desire to dwell in it”, Teresa of Avila said as early as the 16th century. Even if it may be convenient to get a quick treat from the friendly kebab man around the corner in the evening after work and then to eat it with one or the other alcoholic drink in front of the television … — don’t let this become a habit!
Even if it seems uncomfortable for you to come home after work and prepare a healthy meal yourself — try to integrate this into your everyday life as often as possible! Healthy food makes your mind and soul happy and gives you the necessary energy for your day. So you can start anew every day and feel stronger, more efficient, and more vital.
10. Take Full Responsibility For Your Life
Because it is your life! No one else but you should be allowed to determine it, for, in the end, it is you who lives your life. Think about which areas in your life make you happy — that is your destiny! With which areas are you currently not satisfied? — Change them. Everyone is the architect of his own happiness.
It is up to you to deal with your life responsibly and change the things that make you unhappy. No one else but you has the task to do this. You alone have the chance to do so. Take the responsibility and arrange your life in such a way that you would like to live it — you have only one thing!
11. Start Following Your Passion And Your Dreams
Think about answers to the following questions: What can you be absolutely enthusiastic about? What can you absolutely immerse yourself in? What makes your heart beat faster? What visions do you have? What would you like to achieve in your life? What kind of dreams do you have? What did you dream about in the past?
Let the answers to these questions be your guide and start to follow your passion and your dreams. Because what you are really passionate about and what you dream of should be the goal that you want to realize for yourself.
And no matter how high your goal is — every path begins with a first step. Use the energy that you carry within you, that your enthusiasm and your visions give you, and just get started — you will see that every step you take to follow your dreams is worth it!
Start Now And Change Your life!
Okay — it’s quite possible that the implementation of all these points might just seem like a challenge to you. That would probably be the case for most people. However, most people would probably ignore the fact that it is not about fulfilling all points perfectly. The important thing is that you start with it and don’t give up!
Be satisfied with the small successes and you will find it easier and easier to realize the big plans. Get involved with some things that seem uncomfortable and you will see that this will soon bring about great changes in your life that you probably never dreamed of. I wish you much success & all the best!
Use your potential!