The fact that leaving the comfort zone is creepy lies in the manner our minds are programmed. We can see it as a software that brings us through our daily life, where it’s safe and easy to cope with when today is similar to yesterday and tomorrow to today. Even people who are living in bad situations are not easily leaving the comfort zone. Although they hate the way it goes, they have learned to cope with it. Yesterday sucked, but they survived yesterday. So please let today be like yesterday and tomorrow like today. The urge for a better life seems not to be strong enough to leave that comfort zone. The problem is that by leaving this zone tomorrow could be worse. They couldn’t cope with a situation that is worse as their daily life is worse enough, isn’t it? In other words you are right Ulirch, it’s fear most of the time what holds people back from leaving the comfort zone.

And there is something else that prevents us from starting to work on new things. It’s the problem that we don’t want to leave our “comfort zone”. But the question is why? Do we have fear, that something could fail?

Sometimes it takes a long time to get started indeed and once you do it you are in this flow state and it’s hard to stop.

I learned that this procrastination has its roots sometimes in a overwhelming amount of information. Especially if you start a totally new project where learning is involved. You have to find sources on the subject, find a huge amount of guides on-line and don’t really know where to start. Than it’s easier to do it tomorrow and playing games today or use Stumble Upon and so on.