One of the Greatest Enemies to Leadership and Human Potential Is The Comfort Zone
One of the Greatest Enemies to Leadership and Human Potential Is The Comfort Zone
Every day we as human beings work and live within our own comfort zones. Sometimes, we actually stretch an arm or leg outside of this protected environment. And then we experience an arm being hit or misstep and we quickly return to our comfort zone. For the world is a very dangerous place, full of chances and failures.
Maybe this is why there are so many books on leadership. Leaders are known for not residing continually in their comfort zones, but taking the chances necessary for success.
Imagine for a moment, General Dwight Eisenhower staying in the comfort zone right before D-Day or the artists such as Picasso or Mozart? Now, look at several people that you admire. Do those persons continually stay in a comfort zone or safe zone where life passes them by? Or do they take chances and embrace life knowing full well that they might slip and fall away from
What a depressing world this would be if all human beings stayed within their comfort zones. We would indeed live in a very safe, but dull world.
So are you living mostly in your own comfort zone, surrounded by your security blanket? Are the choices that you are making because they are already exist your comfort zone? For example, if you are always doing the easy things first such as answering email and avoiding the hard things such as making sales calls, then you are indeed residing in your own, safe and secure comfort zone.
If you are making choices because they will take you where you want to go, then you are probably living outside of your comfort zone. No matter where you reside, the choice is always yours – whether to expand your leadership and potential by stretching outside or succumbing to the what you know and feel comfortable with.
One of the Greatest Enemies to Leadership and Human Potential Is The Comfort Zone - To learn more about this author, visit Leanne Hoagland-Smith's Website.
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Years ago, the cartoonist Charles Schultz in his character Linus understood the power of the comfort zone through Linus’s security blanket. As a child we all need a comfort zone, a security blanket. However as we grow older, we need to slip off that blanket and take those chances that make us stretch and reach outside of our usual experiences. Unfortunately, too many adults still exist within their comfort zones.
Every day we as human beings work and live within our own comfort zones. Sometimes, we actually stretch an arm or leg outside of this protected environment. And then we experience an arm being hit or misstep and we quickly return to our comfort zone. For the world is a very dangerous place, full of chances and failures.
Maybe this is why there are so many books on leadership. Leaders are known for not residing continually in their comfort zones, but taking the chances necessary for success.
Imagine for a moment, General Dwight Eisenhower staying in the comfort zone right before D-Day or the artists such as Picasso or Mozart? Now, look at several people that you admire. Do those persons continually stay in a comfort zone or safe zone where life passes them by? Or do they take chances and embrace life knowing full well that they might slip and fall away from
What a depressing world this would be if all human beings stayed within their comfort zones. We would indeed live in a very safe, but dull world.
So are you living mostly in your own comfort zone, surrounded by your security blanket? Are the choices that you are making because they are already exist your comfort zone? For example, if you are always doing the easy things first such as answering email and avoiding the hard things such as making sales calls, then you are indeed residing in your own, safe and secure comfort zone.
If you are making choices because they will take you where you want to go, then you are probably living outside of your comfort zone. No matter where you reside, the choice is always yours – whether to expand your leadership and potential by stretching outside or succumbing to the what you know and feel comfortable with.
One of the Greatest Enemies to Leadership and Human Potential Is The Comfort Zone - To learn more about this author, visit Leanne Hoagland-Smith's Website.
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