LOH Contest #119 Stepped outside my comfort Zone 2021

_{I took this picture may 2021 when i stepped out of my comfort zone}

I want to congratulate those who won last week contest and welcome you all again to this week contest. In case you need it read

I love to talk on stepping outside the comfort zone. If i am to explain stepping outside the comfort zone, it means doing things you will not like to do ordinarily. For example, you want to reduce excess weight, you know the pain to wake up every morning to engage in exercise. Your diet will change, you have to do things now against your will and your normal life. That is stepping outside your comfort zone.

In many ways you have stepped outside your comfort zone. Whenever you are doing something new that is difficult for you but you didn't relent effort, you are steeping outside your comfort . Doing what others may not like to do.

1️⃣ When was the last time you went out of your comfort zone, and what did you accomplish?

As a networker and a trainer, business do take me outside my comfort zone several times. But i will share this one that took me out on May 2021. When i was called for 2 weeks training, i thought of it several nights and day. I will be going to Abuja to spend 2 weeks. At first, it will not be possible I said.

Who will stay with my children, how much will i keep for them, how will I sit inside bus from Uyo to Abuja? I have every reason to say no. But because stepping outside my comfort zone always bring new friends to me. My business knowledge will increase . lives that will be touched positively. I decided to go .

2 days before the day that I'll travel that is 15/05/2021 ,2 Young Men told me that they will go with me. That they want to learn from me. Chai! How do I assist them for transportation and hotel room where they will stay for 2 weeks. Another challenge is here. I called the MD to inform him what is on ground, He said, i should not worry that he will care for that.

That faithful day, we left Uyo by 5:am and reached Abuja 9:9m. So exhausted but happy. Arrangements were made immediately for us to eat and go to bed. The following morning our training and prospecting work started.

What did i accomplish

I accomplished a lot of things from that trip. I came to know this 2 young Men better as they shared their life experiences with me. They took me as their mother. Two of them are orphans from age of 5 and 6. I couldn't hold my tears as they tell me what they have passed through in life. We cried together and i became a comforter to them. The way they call me Mummy and care for me, many thought, they are My children. At a time, we concluded that the journey was ordained by God.

Another thing i accomplished was to help a 45 years old Man whom I met at a garden park to stop smoking. When i saw him at the garden the first day, i observed him very well and noticed that, he was not happy and isolated himself though it was a busy place. On the second day, i greeted him and smiled.

He did not respond but His eyes was on me. On the third day at the park, He came to me and asked me why I greeted him. I told him that He was Handsome but not happy. People in that park who saw us were just watching us. He said to me, I have something to tell you so the young Men with me said to him, whatever you want to tell our Mummy, say it here and he said okay, can we all shift a little from here?

We all shifted a little and he told us how his master threw him out of the house after serving him for 7 years . He said that it is only smoking that helps him to endure. He told us where he came from and how he has been surviving in Abuja. Hmmm.

I invited him to one of our training and as he came, he saw that nobody there was smoking. He was not comfortable because he has not smoke. After the training, He came to me and said, i will love to join your business, and i said to him, you will quit smoking or smoke small. He smiled and said, mummy, i will do whatever you ask me to do. I Introduced him to my MD and He arranged a good place for Him and one of the young men who went with me to stay.

Right now 2 of them are living fine in Abuja. I came back with Marvelous alone on 31/01/2021 . He is doing well now too. He comes to my house to visit us and he took me like his mother and my children as his siblings. The other 2 do call me from time to time to tell me, mummy, God will bless you. All this accomplishment came because I stepped outside my comfort Zone.

On my own part, i learn to be good all the time. Even though the trip was not easy at all because some days, we ate 001 or 101 but no body knows. Before 7:am we are ready to go out with a good smile on our faces. My joy was what came out of it not how much we suffered. Whenever you are outside your comfort zone, many things will change even your diet. Some days, we ate what is available not what we want.

Thank you @ladiesofhive for this contest. It has reminded me so much now that i am planning to stepp out again this year but it will be on hive in a special way.