Day 3943: Stepping outside your comfort zone

Lately, I’ve been stepping outside my comfort zone — taking Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice to do something that scares me every day.

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Yesterday, Joan the cat was stepping outside her comfort zone while walking further down our street than ever before.

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Soon after stepping outside her comfort zone, Joan hurried back to the safety of familiar territory.

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Will we be stepping outside your comfort zone in my other images for today?

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Making new friends while dressing like a dork might be a great example of stepping outside your comfort zone (not to mention evaluating your life).

Here’s “stepping outside your comfort zone” on YouTube:

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Thanks to all who help me step out of my comfort zone, including YOU!

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15 thoughts on “Day 3943: Stepping outside your comfort zone”

  1. I love the idea that a doctor prescribed a cat for the woman who was sad. I hope she was soon feline better.

  2. Any time I entered a room full of people I did not know, I was outside my comfort zone. Still would be, if it came up again. I never did learn how to handle it well and ended up avoiding those situations when sometimes I probably shouldn’t have. Ergo, internet! Thank you, Ann. 🙂

  3. laurajfairbanks

    I think you’d enjoy these guys … https://yestheory.com/ …. their whole concept is stepping outside your comfort zone and “seeking discomfort”

  4. I love the cat prescription

  5. I find it remarkable that Joan steps outside her comfort zone. I assume she’s very brave, like most cats, with a comfort zone that, most of the time, extends outward to infinity. But I also looked at one of those pictures and wondered, is that a dollar or other denomination in the street next to Joan? These days using cash is outside many people’s comfort zone.

    • That was a 20-dollar bill, Chris, and it was outside my comfort zone to pick it up and take it. Thanks for being a brave cat, like Joan.

  6. I do feel better when I see cat Ava on a visit to daughter Elisabeth and George Three’s house, Ann.

  7. Barb Cunio quincy

    Getting a cat……..Best idea that I acted on in 2017. Which also prompted me to move out of my comfort zone and move from where I was for 21 years. What a catalyst…..

  8. Leon Fairbanks

    I like “feline better”. Perhaps a cat is a tonic for the catatonic, a meow for “It hurts me- Owww!”.

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