Speaking notes
You can be in your comfort zone and still be uncomfortable.
Yes! You can be going crazy and completely stressed out with too much to do. Yes, this is the life of a business owner.
The chaos feels uncomfortable, but that very chaos can be your comfort zone.
Life coaches and motivational speakers: Get out of your comfort zone!
Quotes:
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
You’ll never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone.
Great things never come from your comfort zone.
Leave you comfort zone and arrive at your success zone.
True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
But for those of us who are business owners or attorneys, you can stay in your comfort zone and still be uncomfortable.
Running a business or a law practice puts you in this strange reality: you’re stressed and have too much to do, but you’ve adapted your mindset to the chaos.
The chaos is familiar. The chaos is your comfort zone.
So when you’re not working, you’re thinking about what you have to do. You carry the weight of your business in your mind all day, every day.
Call this the Chaos Comfort Zone.
Your mind is always churning. You feel the weight as tension and stress in your body. And your body and mind develop resistance – just like taking drugs or alcohol.
But eventually your body or mind will break from the stress – BURNOUT!
This happened to Brenda and me. We were getting calls for business and had jobs booked out 4 to 6 months. We went 2 years working our butts off and never took a vacation.
Friends invited us for a weekend at their condo. Free if we listen to a sales pitch.
“We’re not going to buy!”
Sales woman: “When was the last time you took vacation.”
“We’re self-employed. We don’t take vacations.”
Her: “Do you think that’s healthy?”
We bought – put
Paradox: you don’t realize that the stress and chaos is your comfort zone.
Three steps to break out of the Chaos Comfort Zone
- Realization
Ask yourself: Am I doing what is healthy for myself?
Take a step back and look at your life and business from an outside perspective.
- Make a decision
It doesn’t matter what kind of comfort zone you are in: Chaos Comfort Zone or just cruising through life on Easy Street.
Human mind: Don’t change what we are used to. New and different feels like a risk.
Truth: Comfort zone is more dangerous. If you’re not growing, you’re dying.
Make a decision: “I’m not going to put up with this any more.”
- Take action
Once you make a decision, take the first step immediately.
It’s important to get started right away.
If you wait too long between decision and action, your mind will talk you out of it.
Your comfort zone is deadly. It doesn’t matter if you’ve adapted to chaos or you’re just cruising through life.
Your comfort zone will eventually steal your soul.
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