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What Are Comfort Zones? And Why Should We Escape? We all have our Comfort Zones - havens of security and comfort. But why, you may ask, should we escape? Surely a Comfort Zone is not a cage, but our reward for hard work, the place we have struggled to get to? ....

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.... and before we know it those routines become a rut. And the only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth of the hole! The results of being in a Comfort Zone are that we simply shut off any ideas of alternatives, of options that lie outside our own narrow existences. Leaving our cages is risky and scary. Recognising that we are trapped, is the first step towards gaining freedom. We also have to accept that change causes risk and pain. It is a question of "no pain, no gain" Martin Luther King, Junior said: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge ....