Rosie Guagliardo, InnerBrilliance Coachingġ2. This approach will boost your confidence, associate a positive outcome with your goal and motivate you to stick with pursuing it to ultimately achieve the result you desire. Take a goal and break it down into small steps.

Thinking about taking the tiniest step tricks your brain into taking action. It's natural for our minds to resist change. However, if the rationalization is purely emotional, perhaps you need to proceed and push through any discomfort. If the rationalization is factual, perhaps you don't proceed. Start by identifying the fear that makes something uncomfortable, then go through a quick mental exercise to rationalize why you shouldn't proceed with this uncomfortable and fearful next step. What are you feeling when you are in your 'comfort zone?' Safe? Secure? Maybe, but are you also bored, inflexible, stagnant? What if your 'comfort zone' was also your 'failure zone' because nothing changed? Reframe 'comfort' to mean growth, learning, or purpose and see what changes. Change often brings fear and uncertainty. The world is changing quickly, and 'comfort zones' are less of an option. You will be shocked by how quickly change seems much less intimidating. Invite someone you've just met for coffee. Make it clear that new things are safe, and you'll get bolder by the week. Your urge for the familiar is trying to protect you. The more you do the poses, the more you will be able to step out of your comfort zone. Using Amy Cuddy's work in her book Presence, focus on embodying the change by either standing in the Wonderwoman/Superman pose or other expansive poses to help increase your sense of power and confidence. Shifts in the mindset lead to shifts in the body and emotional state. Marinate in that visual, idea or thought long enough to build solid momentum that propels you into inspired action. Take the time to think about what it could be like to take that step. Stepping out of our comfort zone can be difficult if we do not build a compelling reason to do so. Tonyalynne Wildhaber, The Courage Practice By revisiting our greatest successes, we remember that courage is what got us there.

When we're stuck in comfort, familiarity is actually our frenemy: A friend we rely on, yet who also keeps us beneath our highest potential. Stepping forward in faith and looking fear in the eye isn't easy, but it helps us realize what we are truly made of. Do I qualify?Īccomplishments are often made because of courage. Karyn Gallant, Gallant Consulting Groupįorbes Coaches Council is an invitation-only community for leading business and career coaches. Many loved this exercise because it shifts something inside them. I tell them to look up at the buildings and observe details that surround them and consider the beauty they see. We create quick references to things and file them away in our brains as 'familiar.' I ask my clients to observe the faces of the people they pass by. Beth Kuhel, Get Hired, LLCĪs we get older, we see less and less of what's really around us. When you feel your initial response is to reject, deny or balk at feedback, stop for a moment and imagine that person is handing you a gift for you to achieve your fullest potential. For example, if you're typically offended by negative feedback at work, associate that feedback as constructive advice from someone who helps you improve. Piggyback a new thought pattern onto a knee-jerk response. Recognize Your Reactive Thoughts And Tack A New, Positive Thought Onto Them Repeating the mantra, 'I am fearless' over and over again and envisioning yourself successfully doing or achieving what you fear can help you reprogram your disempowering thought habit and move forward. Replacing those thoughts with empowering ones help us take a new perspective and move to action. Disempowering thought habits keep us in our comfort zones.

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