Now Reading ...This is the sentence that my leader shouted in front of my face 2 years ago. I was an IBO (Independence Business Owner) in Tiens Group MLM company and have reach the 5 stars Level in 3 months of work performance (There is 8 Stars overall).
That phrase still wandering around my mindset although I have quited from the group 1 year ago.
Believe it or not, this sentence help me a lot after that. I keep programming myself that if you don’t get out from a comfort zone, you will be nothing but a scumbag sitting on the road.
Comfort zone is a situation in our life that we love to yield it and tend to addicted to it, consciously or unconsciously.
Comfort zone will ‘kill’ almost any kind of your ‘BIG Dreams’ since those dreams require you to sacrifice a part of the zone or even pulling you out entirely and snatch all connections between you and the zone.
It’s very important for you to identify your comfort zone before throwing yourself into a long-term project like blogging. Because at every cross road of your journey to success, the comfort zone will come and saying hello to you along with the request to go along with it, and back to where you are.
You will become so vulnerable and easily suggested and bend your road to the comfort zone if you don’t recognize the zone properly.
There are many ways to recognize your own comfort zone. In my personal opinion, the easiest way is to detect which part of your activities that could waste your time for nothing but enjoyment & entertainments.
Some example:
- Eat
- Sleep
- Watching Drama-Series on TV
- Playing Game
- Clubbing
- Browsing
- etc
Although it looks like a normal activities, it will become the greatest comfort zone if you have yield in it for a long period of time.
It will make you lazy to think and lazy to act. It will make you lose interest of everything and make you staying longer and longer in the current zone.
I’ve sacrifice my Watching-TV Time for blogging before. But for the last 2 weeks, I found myself, again, trying to going back and staying on the same spot that I have avoided before.
The reason is so simple:
- Too Busy of work, and
- Need to be entertained.
Every time if I feel my job is boring because too many of them, I will tend to think for the pleasure of watching TV in a cool 20 degree Celsius air conditioned room while I’m hiding in the warm bed and blanket. 
Yes, that’s my largest Comfort Zone. I identify it when I feeling so down at work. The image will appear on your head for the first time, second time, third, fourth and so on that will make you nut of it!
My second largest comfort Zone is Browsing. I tend to browse around the web and doing nothing just browsing. Neither Read, nor Collecting information. Just plain, click-click-click-n-click! 
That’s why StumbleUpon suit me, anyway!
What Md. Lorelle said in her comment at Pelf’s blog is true. Let me quote her comment:
[...]If you understand how to blog more efficiently, you will find you have more time to blog and more time to work and actually find time to have a life.
Comfort Zone will kill your time and you will become inefficient. As soon as you realize it, take an immediate action to break out from the zone. It’s hard at first. But as long as you stay away from the zone, you will gain a momentum to go away further and do more thing that is valuable for your blog.
So, what’s the relation with blogging?
Entirely.
Blogging require persistence and endurance. If your persistency is cracked by the situation of your life, the comfort zone will appear like a flower blooming. Cannot be stop by anything else except you know where is the root of the flower. All you need to do is to cut down the root to stop it entirely.
So, find your source of temptation and comfort zone, and get out of it as soon as you found them. Take an Action instead of waiting, Do it, and prove it that you could be the pro-sixth-figure-income-blogger in the future or anything that you could dream of!
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(October 2, 2007, 6:55 am)
I agree with you! Blogging takes discipline, especially if revenue is desired from it. I guess sometimes the repetition bores us, yet it’s the consistent effort of true and tested methods that we should work on so that our efforts will pay off in due time.
Reply to clara(October 2, 2007, 10:10 am)
Hi, Clara! Thanks for taking your time to comment at my blog.
Reply to Ken XuI think you are speaking from your 7 years experiences of blogging huh?
Yeah. I could feel it that all effort will pay off someday. We sow what we seed!
(October 4, 2007, 3:03 am)
Wow some strong words there, Ken (”scumbag”)
But you’re right about people preferring to stay in their comfort zone - much of the world’s social propaganda also drives many into staying there and believing that they should not leave the zone - that is why so many people say that they cannot take risks.
Great post!
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