There is a place where every entrepreneur feels comfortable, comfortable and safe. A wonderful place, would you say? On the contrary! It is the place that is holding you captive at a level of performance far below its true capabilities. It is a very small and limited place in which we protect ourselves from the world around us and we stop taking advantage of the opportunities to grow and undertake that life provides us with on a daily basis. Learn what are the dangers of our comfort zone and how to avoid them.
There is a place where every entrepreneur seeks refuge. It is like a curtain behind which you can escape from the daily challenges you face. It is a place of apparent safety. It is also the place where most ventures fail, because they stop being productive and competitive.
It is our comfort zone.
According to Wikipedia, the comfort zone is a mental conditioning that determines that people operate within a framework of mental barriers that are not real. A person's comfort zone is the set of environments and behaviors with which they feel safe and risk-free. However, such barriers create a sense of security that is only apparent.
Like inertia, a person who has established a comfort zone in their life will have the tendency to stay within it, since when they leave their comfort zone, they go out into the unknown and face new challenges..
Our comfort zone is like a false mask behind which we hide despite the fact that our entrepreneurial spirit longs to grow and take new paths. Through this mask we look at the world around us and protect ourselves from its dangers.
The problem is that this place is too well known, too small. Although it provides us with a sense of security, it also keeps us away from the real-life setting where opportunities for growth, entrepreneurship, and achieving our goals are found.
The comfort zone transforms us into cowards. You can kidnap us into your apparent security domains at any time in our lives, since you know perfectly well that we would pay a very high price to be there: To be comfortable and have everything under control we are able to sacrifice our dreams, life itself.
How to get out of your comfort zone?
1. Create a habit of getting out of your comfort zone every day.
Every day make an effort to demand yourself in an area where you need to grow. Face those challenges that life brings you with boldness and faith. Without battles there are no victories. Without challenges there is no growth and we fall into mediocrity.
2. When things are going well, don't rest.
After a great effort that has brought us fruit, we have the tendency to rest on our laurels. However, this is not the time to retreat behind the curtains of your comfort zone. Do not accept inertia in your life. Find new challenges and keep conquering new terrain.
3. Make a list of the situations you tend to avoid.
Be brutally honest with yourself and determine what is causing this behavior. Then find ways to solve those problems. Maybe you will have to educate yourself in that area, seek help from third parties, or just talk things through and make them clear.
4. Don't dismiss conflict zones in your life.
In the Bible it says that little foxes are the ones that destroy crops. If you do not face and solve once for all those annoying situations that irritate, frighten or sadden you, they will become serious hindrances that will not allow you to move forward with your undertaking.
5. Every time your comfort zone wants to wrap you in your tentacles, sound an alarm.
It will come upon you in surprise. If the call of your entrepreneurial spirit is important enough to you, take care of it with your life and never succumb to the comfort and apparent safety of your comfort zone.
One last word about your children…
Teach your children from a young age not to avoid difficult situations in their lives. Don't do everything for them and allow them to make mistakes. Help them resolve conflicts, but let them actively participate in the process. In this way, they will become adults, who will know how to face life's challenges successfully and their entrepreneurial spirit will not be damaged.
