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Consider Specific Alternatives
Many opportunities that are put in your path are there because they do fit within your skill set (or close enough that you will succeed with effort).
When you say yes more often, you provide yourself with opportunities to succeed at things that fall inside your capabilities but outside your comfort zone.
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Chronically Underconfident
- When you are chronically under-confident, your immediate reaction to any opportunity is to turn it down. Pay attention to it.
- Take the time to actually contemplate a new opportunity. Doing so might make you nervous, but that's not a good reason not to think it through.
- You wi...
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Use Training Wheels
- You are legitimately worried that something is beyond your capabilities, but that doesn't mean that you should not be involved at all.
- Consider asking a trusted colleague or mentor to work on something with you so that you get some experience working at a level beyond what you have d...
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The Right Confidence Levels
- Confidence is a belief that your knowledge is accurate, that your skills are up to the task, and that you can grow into whatever particular challenge is in front of you
- There is a lot of value in having an appropriate level of confide...
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Inside or Outside the comfort zone
Everything you are capable of doing in this world is inside the comfort zone or outside the comfort zone. Things inside the comfort zone are easy for you to do. They take little to no effort to do, there is no mental resistance holding you back. Things outside the comfort zone are facing a lot of...
Say Yes
Four basic habits create energy: Sleep, Meditation, Physical Activity and Nutrition.
This created energy can be focused on new opportunities that take you out of your comfort zone, and those opportunities are usually hidden in the things we normally say 'No' to. Considering sa...
The comfort zone is a terrible guide
The comfort zone is not good in telling you what you should do or not do. Nor is it just these two categories. Stabbing yourself with a pencil is outside the comfort zone and bad for you. Walking is inside your comfort zone (running is not) but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go ...
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