From the desk of Sascha Ballach                                                                                                             

I don’t know about you but given that you arrived at this page I assume you do have some bad habbits. Some habbits that hold you back from what you really want to do in life. There are so many things you want to achieve to make your life better, more joyful and worthwhile yet you are lacking something. Something or somebody is holding you back. Is keeping you trapped in your comfortzone.

That bad habbit I am talking about has also another frightening name: routine. I used to live a daily routine and it killed me from the inside. I was dead inside far too long. My life was good. Not outstanding, but it wasn’t bad. I was able to pay my bills and was somehow fine with my work. But at some point I realized there is so much more i wanted from life. Not to be any type of uber-achiever, but i wanted to spice my life up. Everyone in my street including me lived the same way. We had our little lifes and we were okay with them. But everybody was so much alike. Everybody got home from work at the same time, everybody watched the same TV shows, talked about the superbowl, everybody spent most of their time working, spending some time with the family and some time in front of the TV. That’s what my life used to be.

Since you arrived at this page and read till that point you have to ask yourself: is your life just comfy or is it boring? There is a very thin line and most people don’t get that. They lie to themselves by saying ‘yeah, others have pretty lame lifes, but mine is above average. My life isn’t boring at all.’ – but is it really not that ordinary?

I don’t know you so I cannot (and will not) judge you. But let me tell you – if you want to excel at anything or have at least an interesting life – you cannot be average or just a little above average. There is nothing wrong with living a comfortable life – i enjoy that too. What I don’t do is stay the same or let comfort hinder me from living an interesting, joyful life with lots of new experiences and bucketloads of fun.

I love comfort if it makes my life easier and I don’t think anyone will oppose that. But when comfort makes life just boring it’s time to change that. You do not need to change radically to have a wonderful life with more things than you can now think of. All you need is to be willing to read on and make the necessary steps. A little down this letter I have outlined WHY you want to get out of your personal comfortzone. Please read on and I promise you will find something interesting.

If you don’t see the urge to change anything about your life right now, that’s okay. I know how you feel because I’ve been there myself. I know the pain. I know how you want to do something, how you want to get rid of an old routine that has done nothing for you other than holding you back from an exciting and joyful life. I know how it is and I hated it and I hated myself for not changing and making some small steps. I knew it would be easy, just a few small steps, executed on a regular basis. But I didn’t act. So let me tell you one thing that should stick to your brain once and for all:

We have literally been trained to live regular lifes. Everybody is doing it. Most likely our parents lived a normal life and told us to get a good job, work hard, marry and enjoy two weeks of holidays every year. And to rest on the evenings, take your time with the kids, how much or less that time might be. They taught us as role models what to do in our free time, how to behave, what to do on weekends and so on.

And most likely everybody in your neighbourhood and everyone you know is doing the same thing. You all are living basically the same life. It’s just that the name on your mailbox is different but you could exchange your life with that of one of your friends and everything would stay the same. I know that’s not true for everybody who is reading this page, but for some people it will.

Maybe you go out each week two or three times. And whom do you meet with? The exact same guys, over and over again. And you do the same things time and time again. You even talk about the same things like last time you met. Don’t you agree? There is a lot of redundance in our daily lifes. Doesn’t matter if you live in the big city or in a small town. Things like that are universal. And everybody is looking up to the ‘stars’. But the solution is somewhere else.

You see it’s not your fault that you live the way you do. We have been taught to live our lifes in a certain way. We are but kettle or puppets working our routine and we think we are okay with it.

Let me tell you a little about how this book was created:

This book works with a whole new method in personal development. Other than so many self-help-books out there, this book follows a different approach of less theory and more practice. Nobody has changed through only reading a book, but through applying the acquired knowledge and making the experiences that come with doing so. This book doesn‘t only give you the necessary knowledge, but also a lot of practical exercises that will help you to develop your personality and to realize and extend your potential.

In the past years the expansion of the Comfort Zone has proven to be a very effective way to push one‘s personal development, to confront oneself with one‘s fears, and to gain more self confidence and a confident appearance. In addition to that, the exercises train your flexibility in dealing with diverse situations that can occur in your life. A situation is always determined by the person with the highest flexibility.

If you only want to read about personal development, then this book is not for you. However, if you really want to do something for yourself and your personal development, then this book is perfect for you. Follow the exercises and in the shortest time you will feel and see yourself and your life changing.

Very shortly there will be a Comfortzone App available. This App is for Iphone and Android with many more exercises. In the last months and years I collected a lot of different exercises for various areas of your life and I will put them all into this App.