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How To Go Beyond Your Comfort Zone In Business
One of the major ways people prevent their businesses from being as successful and generative as they can be is by getting complacent and comfortable. People who are truly successful are those who are willing to take risks and discover what possibilities exist beyond the comfort zone.
Complacency is a result of deciding and defining what a business can or can’t be or do. When you function from those kinds of conclusions, there is limited room for growth and expansion.
To start extending beyond the places you’ve made solid, comfortable, and, as a result, limited in your business, you want to start asking questions. A true question is one that invites a different possibility. It brings into your awareness available options that you weren’t previously acknowledging.
Here are three questions you can ask to start opening up to the generative possibilities that exist for you beyond the comfort zone:
What capacities do I have beyond this?
How many capacities and capabilities do you have that you aren’t readily acknowledging? Most people have a few skills that they are most comfortable with and that they use to define what they do, or can’t do. However, if you start to get curious about your own capacities, you’ll discover that there are all sorts of things you’re capable of that can contribute to your life and business.
How many conclusions do you have about your capacities? Are you willing to truly see them? Try asking the people you work with to tell you what they see. When you acknowledge all of your gifts, you have access to resources that allow you to move beyond your ‘comfortable’ way of operating. Being willing to function from all of your capacities is the type of risk that few people ever choose.
What am I aware of that I can choose, create, and generate that’s different?
Look at any hugely successful business, and you will find multiple ways that those business owners did things differently. Most business models are built on the facts and figures of what others are doing; they are based on trying to emulate what has worked for someone else. However, to be great, you have to be aware of possibilities beyond the examples set by others.
If you want to open the door to a massive vault of inspiration, ask what you’re aware of that you can choose, create, and generate that’s different. Until you actually ask, you won’t see what’s waiting and available. Once you’re willing to be aware of something different, there is no limit to what you can create.
If this wasn’t a problem, what possibly could it be?
How many problems have you decided you have? Have you ever stopped to notice how many times a day you say, “the problem is” or “if I only had…?” Defining situations as a problem will never allow you to move beyond the comfortable, compliant way of being in your life and business. What if every problem was a possibility instead?
If you look at your business and think, “I can never make enough money,” or “I never have enough clients,” then that’s where all your choices will come from. You won’t perceive and receive the places where money, clients, and possibilities are showing up because your fixed points of view stop you from seeing them.
Functioning from a perspective of ‘problem’ is a comfortable place for most people. Wrangling with challenges and putting out fires is something we’ve concluded we have to do consistently. Businesses that truly thrive are the ones where all challenges and fires and received as the possibility for something different to be created.
For your business to be truly successful and generative, you have to be willing to go beyond everywhere you’ve become complacent and comfortable. When you ask questions, you have access to resources and possibilities that allow your life and your business to thrive.
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About the Author
Simone Milasas is an entrepreneur, creator, creative business coach, international business owner, author and Worldwide Coordinator of Access Consciousness. She has been at the forefront of cutting-edge business creation and development for over a decade and has trained business leaders and innovators all over the world. Simone is the author of JOY OF BUSINESS translated into 13 languages and best-selling book GETTING OUT OF DEBT JOYFULLY translated into 5 languages. You can find Simone every week on her podcast – The Art & Industry of Business & Living available on her website, www.simonemilasas.com, and iTunes.
