Where are your comfort zone places? The same meal at the same restaurant? The same doctor? The same daily routines? I like my comfort zones. You know what to expect, right? However, sometimes those zones aren’t really places of comfort. Your comfort foods might actually begin to make you feel uncomfortable as you gain weight and begin to have health problems. A job might become unbearable or simply unchallenging. A relationship might become toxic . . . and perhaps it always w

I never felt special. I wasn’t the smartest kid in the class–there were always others smarter than I. I wasn’t the most athletic. The one swim contest I entered I got third . . . out of three. I also never thought I was attractive. Enough said. To matter in this world, I took on leadership roles to earn others’ respect. In my senior year in high school I ran for and won SIX offices, including senior class secretary (of a class of 406) and newspaper editor. I thought I’d make