I teach the beginning course at my school for most of our programs. It is basically a student success course, coupled with a professional development aspect as we are a career college. One of the topics we discuss at length is the idea of the comfort zone. We typically define the comfort zone as the familiar, the situation where you feel calm with no anxiety. While listening about security, this idea kept popping in my head. I tell my students that in order for them to become better and achieve their goals, they must get out of their comfort zones and stretch themselves into something new. While saying this, and doing many things in class to get them out of their comfort zones, I also work hard to make sure that they feel secure enough to branch out and venture outside of themselves. So, my question is, in what ways do you, as instructors, toe this line of getting them to do something new and different, while still helping them to feel secure in what they are doing?