Performance Management and Challenging Our Comfort Zone

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I believe when talking about this topic of stretching beyond your comfort zone often times we mistakenly assume it is a bad thing; that we aren’t realizing our full potential because we are playing it safe or conservative. It isn’t a good or bad thing….it just is. It is reality; it is normal.

Let me give you an example, think of the first time that you ever met face to face with a client. Think about the anxiety you had preparing for the meeting and the butterflies as you drove to the appointment and knocked on that door….all very normal. But with practice and repetition you reached a place of ease and familiarity. When we choose to move beyond our comfort zone we are choosing growth over our current circumstances.

Why push ourselves beyond our comfort zone?  

1. Personal and professional growth
2. A breakthrough
3. Speed up the opportunity of success

Pushing beyond our comfort zone does raise our anxiety level. That is ok, because research shows performance can be enhanced by some amount of stress. Anxiety improves performance until a certain optimum level has been reached. That optimum level is called your Optimal Performance Zone. The opportunity for peak performance is to find that space – your optimal performance zone - beyond where you are comfortable without taking on undue stress or anxiety.
 

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Your #1 tool is Bravery….Be brave enough to try because truthfully it just isn’t that bad.

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If you’d like to discuss this topic further, please don’t hesitate to contact me!