Top Five Tips To Help You Out of Your Comfort Zone

In times of turmoil, it can be hard to avoid hunkering down, but it might be just what the doctor ordered

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Top Five Tips to Help You Out of Your Comfort Zone

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It’s hard to be a human! Even with all the instability, in America we are more fortunate and comfortable than most people ever were in the history of the world and yet - it’s still hard to be a human. Some level of psychic suffering is just part of the job description. We are caught between the things we want to do and the people we want to be and the things we actually do and people we are. And as a leader, with so many people counting on you and watching you, it’s even harder to square that circle and not beat ourselves up for being in some way “better.”

But habits are really hard to break, especially as you get older - some cliches are cliches for a reason. We often don’t have as much insight into ourselves as we think we do. We get caught up in “we tried that already and it didn’t work.” And we all only have finite energy, probably the most precious resource in leadership.