T. Harv Eker explains why people feel stuck in their comfort zones—because the mind seeks safety and resists change—and frames the conflict between a survival-oriented part (which prefers sameness) and an ambition-oriented part (which wants growth). He advises overcoming this by taking very small actions to create momentum (the "big mo") so a body at rest becomes a body in motion, enabling progress to the next level of life.
A lot of people talk to me about this issue, about feeling kind of stuck in their comfort zone and therefore procrastinating, etc, etc, and you know, I got to tell you that that's pretty normal out there. That's. You're not alone in that. I must get a thousand letters a month to that type of effect here. And why does that happen? Well, the thing you have to understand is that we are kind of bred to keep things. Things the same. And why is that? Well, your mind is a protective mechanism, right? Its job is survival, keep you alive. And therefore it likes to keep things the same to it. The same means safety. So it's pretty normal for you to want to keep things the same. At the same time, what happens? We have another part of us that wants to go, go, go be more successful, have more money, have better relationships. Better, better, better. And this conflict, this conflict is one of the leading causes of unhappiness. One party wants this, one party wants that. Wow. What do you do? All right. If you are serious about moving to another level of your life, the next level, you're going to have to get out of that comfort zone. And how do you do that? Simple. By taking action. What kind of action? One tiny little eensy teensy action. Why? Because of something called the big mo. Mo what? Momentum. What's the word? Momentum. So there's a saying that Newton said that said a body in motion will tend to remain in motion while a body at rest will tend to remain at what? At rest. As I said, normal natural physics, you're at rest right now. You've got to get into motion. That means you've got to get to be a body in motion. Will tend to remain in what? Motion. Getting your motion going, getting your momentum going.
