You don't notice, but your comfort zone is always shrinking. It behaves like an slippery slope... First, you are uncomfortable giving speeches to large groups, so you refuse. Then you are uncomfortable to talk to medium sized groups so you make up excuses to not talk or rush to finish. After a few years of this, you can't give speeches to groups bigger than eight to ten people without having nightmares the day before. This slippery slope can be public speaking, new ventures, new ways of doing business, or adopting new technologies (are you using social media?).
In the business world, we should be always push to expand our comfort zone - as in commercials every year we should be bigger and better or a new and improved formula. To make this happen just follow these simple steps:
- Make a list of your strengths and your weaknesses
- Have your mentor, significant other or trusted adviser review and help with the list.
- Together, define what strengts and weaknesses you should work on
- Set goals and exercises that you should do
- After an appropriate time, review the results
- Rinse and repeat
It is very important to work on your strengths as well as your weaknesses. For example, if you are a good public speaker become a great speaker. We setup aggressive goals for our portfolios, why should we be any different with ourselves.
BTW, I am following my own advice, I will be filming three business segments for a business program tomorrow - this is something new and exciting.
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