Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone

It is not difficult to find plenty of discussion about stepping out of your comfort zone.  These is advice on why you should do it, how you should do it, quotes on doing it, and why you might not want to do it.  Google returned over 130,000 pages of search results in less than a second.

Today during my early walk, when my feet and back were hurting for reasons that I have yet to understand, I came to the realization that stepping outside of my comfort zone results in discomfort from time to time. Now, Rory is fond of saying that "physical discomfort is only important if your attitude is wrong." I'm inclined to agree with him on this sentiment, but it is worth noting that by its definition a step from the comfort zone is likely to lead to a little discomfort.  

That's alright, and the clear course of action is to keep stepping because your comfort zone will expand to fill your experiences for the most part.  It's just tougher to keep stepping in reality compared to the theory of resilience you had in your head when you were imagining it.

Anacostia Sunrise with the ex-USS Barry Front and Center

I did manage to push through this morning, albeit at a slower pace than I would have liked), and the afternoon walk, counterintuitively to me, was a much more comfortable experience.

I did go ahead and capture another shot of an Anacostia Sunrise with the ex-USS Barry playing a prominent role.  The picture and the composition were familiar and comfortable, and that's just what I needed to put another three brace of miles under the soles of my sneaks.