Comfort Zones

Everyone has comfort zones, especially where it impacts our relationships, both with each other and our work.

Years ago, I would have said my comfort zones were a “helping hand;” a place I could always go to relieve tensions and stress.

Now it is the opposite. The zones I have created over the years I am constantly targeting to break down; reasons being. A comfort zone inhibits your creative soul; it lays in waiting for you just when you need it least, preventing your advancement through , what I term, “The 80% Proofing Zone.”

This Proofing Zone is the ultimate filter that “Intelligence” applies in order only the absolute best ideas enter the Universal Brain Bank.

So, how do we recognise when we are in our comfort zone (from a counterproductive point of view?) - we furnish excuses to break away from that very thing we should be tackling. And is usually around the 80% stage of success, where we feel pressure of a sort resulting in Passive Resentence.

If we fully understand the process of undertaking an activity, it is obvious that this Proofing Zone sits in the final stage of “Conscious Competence.” That is the one immediately after “Conscious Incompetence,” which itself is a stage where we move from having a great idea, imagining everything seems possible and achievable, into putting the idea into practice; a stage where we make our mistakes.

After resolving our mistakes (which are vital to provide the “Proof”) we know what we are doing and as long as we stay focussed, we get it achieved. Its where 90% of the work force sits during their daily work patterns; doing what they are told and following rules, procedures, or orders of some kind.

However, the Universal Intelligence is aiming at something much more critically perfect than this. It wants us to be in a state of Sub-Conscious Competence.

We have all experienced this stage at various points in our life; a stage where we do things automatically, without having to concentrate. Classic example being, driving our motor car.

Remembering when we first learned to drive, its easy to grasp the idea and how these stages apply. Just imagine if we had run for cover each time, we made a mistake; we would not have achieved the success of obtaining that licence. From there, being in Conscious Competence, we managed, through practice, trial, and error, to achieve that magical place of Sub-Conscious Competence, where we can enjoy our driving.

In summing up, please endeavour to tackle those Comfort Zones. I have a series of exercises you can use to rid yourself of them.

Till next time.

Cheers

Keith