How to know when to push through your comfort zone

The only things keeping you from achieving your goals and vision are your limits. When you reach your limits, you feel resistance, and then the things you want become harder to achieve.

Things like fear, doubt, lack of physical ability, or any mental block can present a major obstacle to reaching your potential.

To what extent you achieve your goals and vision depends on how well you can navigate and overcome these obstacles.

Unfortunately, most people find it hard to work past their limits, so they just give up altogether.  

Fail to push past your limits and watch your ideas and vision disappear right in front of your eyes. 

While working through them, you can achieve anything you put your mind and heart into.

“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

–       Michael Jordan

Consider taking these steps, and you'll see yourself pushing through your limits.

Take a little more than you think you can.

As you push your limits, you face new and more difficult challenges.

If you don't dare to do bigger and better things on a regular basis, you will only be working within the confines of your present capabilities, and this is a sure way of remaining where you are. You’ll make little or no progress and in turn you will be unhappy which leads to self-doubt.

So, stretch it a little bit more.

"Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing."

– Darren Rowse, professional blogger and speaker

Get inspired to act.

Find something that inspires to push your vision so that you can realistically achieve your goals.

A book, a quote, person or even a thought can be a source of inspiration to move forward.

Make sure it’s something that fills you with passion and momentum. Inspiration can be a powerful motivator.

“The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.”

–       Dean Karnazes, ultramarathon runner

See how others have reached where you want to go.

Whatever your goals, there are probably others who also set them and achieved them.

Look for clues to what they have done to overcome their limitations on their way to success.

You can find direction if you pay attention to the path they took.

Overcome borders.

To achieve your vision/dreams or goals, you must go beyond your limits and go beyond your comfort zone. There are no shortcuts.

What is worth doing is worth doing well. This has been challenging yet encouraging motto for success and fulfillment in my life. It's my mantra challenging me to keep pushing myself further and not settling for the average.

When you reach your limits and feel this resistance, it can be difficult to overcome it, but if you put in a little more effort, you can do really great things.

The funny thing is that once you get a taste of it and finally do it, you can look back and wonder why you ever thought it was so difficult.

Don't let limits stop you from achieving true fulfillment and growth!

"The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them."

–       Michelle Obama