Create Change in your life

Once an idea hits you, you will never look back. It can happen anywhere, on a bus, walking in the street, sitting in a restaurant, in the shower or when you are in a queue waiting to pay for your groceries. But when you get an idea for something a new business, a new goal you want to set for yourself that is line with your aspirations and skills that could potentially change your life forever, you will never look back.

It could be the idea you have been waiting all your life for, and when it comes you will know it is your way forward, your path to a more fulfilled life.

It will be the thing you were born to do, no longer are you looking at others who are passionate and absorbed in their work with envy, because you will now have your very own idea, something which combined with action, effort and your desire to succeed will take you to where you want to be.

You may never know when it will arrive, but you will be glad it did, it will be like an awakening, your purpose, your future, your destiny all rolled into one little idea. You may ask yourself why it took so long to arrive but underneath be eternally grateful.

It will use all your talents, you will happily spend hours, days and months doing whatever is required to turn it into a reality, for you will know that it is the vehicle from which all your future successes will come from.

You will completely immerse yourself in the daily tasks required to make it happen. It will be a pleasure, one that you are only too willing to carry out.

Your idea will be yours and yours only and you will make sure that you do all that is required to turn it into a success.

admin Changing direction Changing direction

Everybody gets annoyed about something, what is it that annoys you?

Get your creative juices flowing here:

Step 1

Introduction - why I get really annoyed . . .
Explain the general reasons why the issue is important to you.

Step 2

What can you or anybody else do about it?
Is there a solution? If there is outline it ……

Please feel free to add your own, remember the criteria is a problem AND a solution.

admin New Ideas (creative thinking) change your life, creative thinking

One of the great ways you can come up with ideas is to make connections. Many new ideas have been born from this concept.

How do you make connections?

Well there are a variety of ways you can make connections but one way is simply to do it when you are out and about every day.

Take a look around you, what do you see? A tree, a car, a poster, some writing on the wall, a bird, a bright color, the clouds in the sky, people, shop Windows, signs.

Once you have identified different objects or whatever, make a connection between them.

When you do this have a problem in mind you want to solve.

For example

• A name for your new business
• A new idea for a business

You never know just what sort of idea may come of an exercise like this. Give it a go and see how you get on.

admin New Ideas (creative thinking) New ideas, The mind

To develop yourself, grow and improve your life situation. In order to grow as a person it is essential that you push your boundaries, doing so will expand your capacities, capabilities, enable you to experience new realities that previously you thought were unobtainable and to some extent it will allow you to re-invent yourself.

Will it be easy?

Probably not, but it needn’t be excruciatingly painful either, especially if you take it bit by bit, a little at a time.

What will happen if I don’t?

Probably nothing, you will be the same person in 6 months time as you are now. Is this OK with you? For many it might be, but if you are looking to make changes in your life, especially personal changes, then it is important you take action to do something about it, and stepping outside of your comfort zone is one way to do this.

What exactly is a comfort zone anyway?

Your comfort zone is an imaginary set of boundaries which are defined by you, keeping you safe in your own reality away from anything that you feel would cause you or your life situation discomfort or pain.

For example if you are shy and feel you need more confidence, maybe social confidence then unless you go out and start socializing and making an effort to overcome your shyness (moving outside of your comfort zone) then you will probably always feel shy and insecure. But if you start to take initiative and make changes to your life, then in time your confidence will improve.

I am not sure I need to step outside of my comfort zone.

Maybe you don’t, but when you look in the mirror every day is the person who looks back at you the best they possibly can be? Is it a person who has grown and stepped up to life’s challenges or somebody who has kept themselves hidden and out of the way? Is it a person who has always deliberately distanced themselves from any unpleasant situations that may cause them discomfort, real or imagined but that could provide major benefits to their life?

We are who we are but that doesn’t mean we have to remain as we are forever. The only way you will ever change yourself and to some extent your life is just how far you are willing to push the boundaries and make life uncomfortable by stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Life very often will require you to step up and be counted, now some people will and some won’t, never the less there will always be times when more is required of you then you are willing to provide.

And then there are people who actually create circumstances that actually require them to do something which they are not comfortable doing, deliberately pushing themselves to go on and reach the next level, and most of the time they will. They don’t wait for life to offer its challenges, they go out and create their own, thereby providing a ready made platform from which they can grow and develop.

Some people will always be just plain happy the way they are and won’t really see any need to step outside of their comfort zone. I wonder what lives these people will lead in the future. For some maybe it will be quite successful, but for most it will probably be mediocre just like 99% of the people out there.

Can you be successful without stepping outside of your comfort zone; I am not sure, perhaps. Can you grow and develop as a person without stepping outside of your comfort zone? No, I don’t believe you can.

I believe that if you do not take steps to move outside of your comfort zone from time to time then realistically how different can you expect to be months or years from now? And I am not just talking about wealth or financial status I am talking about you as a person.

Many people (and you will know if you fall into this category) will have to step outside of their comfort zone if they are to accomplish anything in their lives. You see life won’t meet you half way, it doesn’t work like that. But if you do push yourself into unfamiliar territory in order to become a better person, one who is capable of greater successes then the rewards will more than make up for any pain you have to go through in the short term.

For some people doing tasks that at first seem impossible are necessary before any real growth can take place, and sometimes it is this growth that needs to occur before any progress can be made in relation to completing other goals such as wealth, happiness etc.

Is it such a bad thing to step outside of your comfort zone?

What is wrong with having to do activities which we would not like to do in order to grow? For some people it is asking too much, perhaps some people don’t think the rewards are worth the hassle, or they could be content with the way they are already and see no reason to change. Others on the other hand will relish the challenge and know only too well how much they can potentially benefit.

So whatever it means for you to step outside of your comfort zone, go for it, with all the confidence you can muster, do whatever is necessary and remember to reward yourself for the progress that you will inevitably make and to enjoy the benefits when they arrive.

admin Confidence Self-confidence