Ahmed Shaami
Very often you have come across inspiration quotes that encourage you to get out of your comfort zone and do something you would not normally think of doing. Breaking out of your comfort zone is hard but it is a good thing for you. It can make you achieve great things by forcing you to push the boundaries. It is the state where your mental productivity and performance reach your peak and you find it easier to brainstorm and harness your creativity in future.
The benefits of getting out of your comfort zone can linger but there is an overall self-improvement you get through the skills that you are learning. Everyone’s comfort one is different but it can help you to bring out your best especially when it comes to business. Following are the reasons that you should get out of your comfort zone and intentionally seek out situations that are unfamiliar.
It broadens your perspective:
As an entrepreneur, you may have been working on a particular area. This makes you ignore the things that you know are not going to work for the kind of projects you are working on. This can however be an entrepreneur’s biggest mistake. The limited thinking can either lead you to achieving something that is being done over the years in the same way to achieve same results. But it can blind you with more exciting ways of performing your work that could yield much better results.
Reduce the entrepreneurial fatigue:
Once you consider yourself an expert in one field, you develop a to-do list that is required to launch a company or startup. Thinking of the whole process and missing the parts that need to go into maturing your product can cause entrepreneurial fatigue. Breaking out of this specific set plan, you need to focus on what are the unique ways you can attract customers that no one else has ever tried before. Getting out of the comfort of that fixed mental state, you allow your mind to refresh and let go of the old thoughts.
Risk-taking:
Getting out of the comfort one requires you to take risks. For a startup, the strength lies in its ability to be nimble and agile and to come up with solutions in unique ways. Risks make your work more exciting and unique in ways that make a big difference when it comes to customers.
It brings success:
One of the biggest reasons that you should get out of your comfort zone is that the people who encourage their companies to take risks, they attain huge success. Most of the people, who are a reason behind the success of any company or startup, are the risk takers. Their thinking breaks all the traditional norms of doing things and their uniqueness mushes them to think forward.
