<p>Comfort certainly has its advantages &#8212; our comfy chair in the living room, a comfortable routine at work, a comfortable relationship. With all the advantages of comfort, here are some things you should know about the comfort zone before you explore the edge.</p>
<p>The comfort zone is where most of life is played. It is certainly where most of sports is played. Consider a football field: 90 percent of the game is played between the 20-yard lines. That&#8217;s why they call anything outside that area the &#8220;red zone&#8221; it&#8217;s where the difference in the game is made. It&#8217;s okay to feel good and play well inside the comfort zone before you explore the edge and go for the score. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2012/02/quit-getting-comfortable-by-lee-colan-ph-d/" title="Permanent Link: Quit Getting Comfortable By Lee Colan, Ph.D." rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":936,"date":"2012-02-09T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2012-07-17T22:43:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T03:43:25","slug":"quit-getting-comfortable-by-lee-colan-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/02\/quit-getting-comfortable-by-lee-colan-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit Getting Comfortable By Lee Colan, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comfort certainly has its advantages &#8212; our comfy chair in the living room, a\u00a0comfortable routine at work, a comfortable relationship. With all the advantages of comfort, here are some things you should know about the comfort zone before you explore the edge.<\/p>\n<p>The comfort zone is where most of life is played. It is certainly where most of sports is played. Consider a football field: 90 percent of the game is played between the 20-yard lines. That&#8217;s why they call anything outside that area the &#8220;red zone&#8221; it&#8217;s where the difference in the game is made. It&#8217;s okay to feel good and play well inside the comfort zone before you explore the edge and go for the score. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2012\/02\/quit-getting-comfortable-by-lee-colan-ph-d\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Quit Getting Comfortable By Lee Colan, Ph.D.\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}