To accomplish a worthwhile goal, you MUST step out of your Comfort Zone Tomorrow morning I will have my first lesson with an italki teacher. When I was a young man I could speak Vietnamese comfortably. But after forty years of working, raising a family and being distracted by life's requirements my fluency in Vietnamese has suffered. Now that I am retired and I can, more or less, do what I want with my time, I decided to rekindle my love for the Vietnamese language and culture. So, I signed up for a conversation tutor. Am I nervous? You bet. But after many years on this earth, one of the things I have learned is that to accomplish any worthwhile goal, I must step out of my comfort zone. That goes for physical and mental things. So, tomorrow I will take a deep breath, then jump into the water. At first, the water will be very cold but soon, I will get used to it and will be swimming around asking myself, "Why did I wait so long?"