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It might hold you back from living the life of your dream, but your comfort zone is not evil. It might lessen your quality of life, but your comfort zone is one of your greatest allies. However, unless you know how to override its parameters it will lock you into an unrewarding and repetitive life.
Knowing how to overcome your comfort zone will unlock the vast richness that life presents us in every moment. Yet to outsmart it, it’s not enough to identify the comfort zones of others or your own in mere hindsight.
To beat your comfort zone you must learn to identify it in the very moment it tries to put you into its shackles so that you can say, “No, thank you!” and “Hell yes” to living outside of the box.
Transcending yourself begins with an awareness of how you limit yourself The moment you are ready to step outside of yourself and make this your default pattern, you will begin to exceed yourself in your sleep.
I call this getting drunk on your own edge. Because to step into yourself is to step beyond yourself. And mastering this can allow you to live life with more creative success and flow with very little effort at all.
Our comfort zone is there to protect us. It is based on previous generalizations we made and as much as it holds us back it also provides us with a buffer of comfort.
When you give in to your comfort zone you won’t know that you are doing it. In fact, you will think that you are doing anything but it. Your mind will come up with a plethora of arguments to convince you of it.
Rather than to look for the short term gains and losses, you can begin to look deeper and ask yourself what the refusal to move outside of your zone of comfort is trying to protect.
In most cases you will find that the thing you are trying protect is not even real, but merely the fear of losing a comfortable thought. Not a real thing, a thought!
Ask yourself: What fiction are you trying to protect by putting your life on pause?
When we find ourselves at challenging points in our life, we are usually confronted with these two tendencies.
Whenever we give in to the will to comfort we operate from a scarcity mindset trying to protect something or keep up appearances. We return to our cocoon of habits and find comfort in their familiarity. The funny paradox is that all comfort springs from discomfort, but as adults we forget that.
The will to power stands for our drive to increase our capacities and develop as human beings, not in quantity but in quality. When we learn a new skill, when we make a bold move or take an emotional risk, we act on our will to power.
Gaining awareness of that distinction inoculates you against the bribes your comfort zone tricks you with.
The more you give in to comfort, the less comfort you will have because you comfort zone will shrink.
The more you give in to the will to power, the more comfort you will experience. Simply because you perpetually develop yourself and increase the resilience and size of your comfort zone.
Ask yourself: Is this increasing your power and capacity or fluffing your pillows?
Most people fail to beat their comfort zone because they can’t identify it. It will usually seem like the most plausible thing to give in to it. This happens because they look for it in their mind, when the power our comfort zone has over us is emotional.
By being mindful of how you feel whenever you do something outside of your comfort zone, you can learn to identify the feeling with which it hypnotizes you into obedience. A sensation not unlike anxiety or fear, just that it has no object other than itself.
Whenever your reach the boundary of your comfort zone, your body releases a signal that alerts you as if to say: “Hey, we have not been here before. Watch out!”
This sudden addition of energy is often mistaken for fear, provoking us to scan our surroundings for threats. And if we look hard, we find it even if it’s not really there. The cool thing is that one you become aware of that feeling, you will notice that it is always the same.
The solution to this is to get yourself into small risk situations outside of your comfort zone. Pay close attention to the sensations in your body and how they eventually transform into avoidance and comfort seeking.
Do this: Get yourself into uncomfortable situations and really observe yourself and how the comfort zone tries to persuade you with sensations, emotions, thoughts. Learn to identify that feeling by doing this a few times. If you do this it will lose its hold over you and you will have the choice to take its stop signs as invitations to grow and liberate yourself
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From the architect. Designed by the architectural practice of IttenBrechbühl and constructed by the main contractor HRS, Modern Times Hotel enjoys a perfect location amongst the hills above the town of Vevey. It sits adjacent to the motorway for easy access by car, only a stones-throw from the new Charlie Chaplin Museum with the mountains, the heart of Vevey itself, and the famous UNESCO World Heritage site of the Lavaux vineyards closeby. Thanks to its highly visible location, the buildings seems to welcome its visitors with open arms just after they leave the main road. Modern Times Hotel has become a new gateway to the region and is emblematic of Charlie Chaplin’s presence in Vevey.
At the very heart of nature
The hotel is located between the main roads to the north and the quiet residential quarter of the town to the south which is still under development. By way of its position, lying parallel to the hillside, the building itself both defines and serves to protect the whole of the buildable area of the site.
The building is perfectly embedded into the naturally sloping topography of the site taking full advantage of its relief and surrounded by a large landscaped garden. At the heart of this park one may walk amongst the colours of the Mediterranean and come across a small pond adjacent to the main terrace on the Southern aspect of the hotel. Protected by a canopy, the terrace offers great views to the mountainside of the “Rochers de Naye”.
A dynamic facade
The building stretches along the length of the site but its façade has been designed as a rhythm of elements broken by only two folds which announce the main entrance to the hotel and the location of the restaurant. Ribbons of metal that run all around the building otherwise highlight its horizontality. Panels of warmly coloured vertical glazing– brown, bronze, and grey – give the building an elegant, yet calm, character. The northern façade of the hotel reads as a sequence of planes which change in their appearance according ones particular viewpoint and also with the changing natural light.
A sequence of surroundings
The ground floor is a unique and open space featuring the main reception, restaurant, lounge bar, and conference facilities. The different activities function independently of the main hotel and allow it to have a life all through the year. The decor of the different spaces are distinguished by their own particular atmosphere: In the reception area, a large kinetic sculpture commissioned from the artist Charles Morgan and inspired by Chaplin’s lm “Modern Times” adds metallic touches to a colour palette which is predominantly black and white; in the conference rooms, an elegant floor of solid oak; fresh and lively colours of purples, oranges, and blues give the lounge bar the feeling of a New York speakeasy; the restaurant features Versailles parquet flooring and its atmosphere is more intimate with large lamps illuminating a softer palette of beige and grey punctuated by blues and greens.
Sig Nordal 