How to exit your comfort zone: For women over 50

How To Get out of Your Comfort Zone

Get out of your comfort zone by trying new things. 

How should you start this new “dis-comfort zone” adventure?

Make a list of things you have always wanted to do but were afraid to do or never had the time.

List of things to try out of the comfort zone:

• Solo trip to Paris or another city.
• Go on solo slow walks, take different paths and challenge yourself.
• Join a traveling walking group in a different country. One of those cool groups that go from place to place, stop at a cool hotel and eat very well in the evening!
• Learn to cook in Asia
• Go on a painting vacation.
• Learn a new language and travel to that country to practise it.
• Learn how to take great landscape photographs.

Try new things out slowly so that you will enjoy the process.

Drastic changes can create a feeling of panic and send you running back to your familiar patterns.

We like to feel comfy, so remember that, when you’re motivated to try new things. Don’t take on too much at once.

Eventually, you’ll like the feeling of trying new things, and your comfort zone will expand!

Routine and safe zones

●      Routines are safe zones because you already know what it’s all about and how to do things.

●      A Routine is an essential tool to help you organize certain aspects of your life, such as work.

●      Routines help you stay on track, because they remain the same.

We need consistency, but a life full of routines won’t give you much space for creativity and spontaneity.

It is possible to create a balance between comfort, routines and the extraordinary, and you will find that a life with more improv and impulse is a lot more fun.

Creativity and Comfort Zone

Comfort doesn’t spark creativity.

Learning new things, going to places you have never been, and eating different foods will spark creativity and add excitement to your life.

Getting out of your comfort zone and taking a risk

Taking a risk does not mean that you have to put yourself in harm’s way; taking a risk means that you’ll do something differently — something you always wanted to do but were afraid to try.

It can be a solo trip, learning how to make ceramic pots, or joining a cooking class.

The Benefits of Risk-Taking

●      Feeling of accomplishment

●      Empowerment

●      Relief upon accomplishment

●      Confidence

●      Sense of possibilities

●      Happiness

●      Motivated to try more things

●      Creates optimism

●      Self-respect

●      Personal growth

●      Helps you cope with stress — the more you try new things, the less stressful new situations will feel

●      Helps you minimize your fears and learn how to work with fear

Get out of your comfort zone in 30 Outstanding Days

Let’s take a risk and get out of our comfort zone together!

30 Day Challenge:

Choose something you like and want to do, but that creates a little discomfort.

It can be something completely new, or something that you want to give a second chance. Is there something you have always wanted to do but were secretly afraid of failing, so you ditched it?

●      Let’s commit to a project for 30 days.

●      Work on your new project weekly. By working on something weekly, you will have time to see how your discomfort sabotages you and how to keep moving forward.

●      Remember that you are not creating a new routine; you are testing out something new. So don’t do this new thing every day because it will just become a new pattern.

●      Keep a written or visual journal to document your feelings and your progress.

●      Note when and what triggers your discomfort and if you want to give it up.

●      Note what inspires you.

●     When to start?

Start now! Whenever you read this or set your day.

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Updated: July 2025