October 11th, 2011 
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Often, success gives us the experience and the confidence to try something new. In fact, to all of us at some time in our lives this is seen as automatic to try something for the first time, especially as children! But what is not automatic is the desire to try something ambitious. To push our own boundaries to a higher level.
To be brief, if you’re attempting something that doesn’t make you feel at least a little uneasy, even only occasionally, then you are probably not developing as much you could. You may well be successful at achieving an unambitious task or project but it will essentially be a hollow victory. You need to take yourself outside of your comfort zone in order to get the most out of this task. Here are 3 easy steps as to how you should go about it:
We are designed to avoid pain and stress at all costs. But ‘no pain, no gain’ is not only a statement true in the gym, used to drive you to that extra sit up or press up. It is a universal truth. Even our body’s natural responses show us this. Our muscles grow when under the resistance of weights, the soles of our feet harden when on rough ground and our bones thicken under the stress of gravity. Indeed, “that which does not kill us only serves to make us stronger.”
The mind is no different from the rest of our body. We need to adapt in order for a job to change from being stressful on the first day to brain numbingly boring several months down the line.
Think of some key stressful occasions in your life. Have these events repeated themselves? If so, were they as stressful the next time around as they were the first? For example, a house purchase is a huge commitment to the first time buyer. Is it as big a commitment to the property investor who has repeatedly invested over and over again?
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Eleanor Roosevelt once said ‘‘Do something every day that scares you”. She was talking about making changes outside of your comfort zone. That is because doing things within your comfort zone is exactly that, comfortable. In order to develop we need to push ourselves, forcing us to adapt whether in wealth, health, experience or skills.
Whether this is attempting a new language , learning to fly an aircraft or speaking in public for the first time, you must occasionally do something that is unfamiliar, difficult, or just damn right scary in order to get the most out of it.
That’s right, difficult! Just plain and simple – HARD. In fact, you should look to make them as hard as you can just so long as you still believe that they can still be possible. Research has proven that the effort put in and the resulting performances are proportional to the difficulty level of the goal, up to a point where the goal is no longer believable.
This may seem like lunacy. But here is the thing – Your performance is still optimised even when you do not achieve the goal. Think about it, things are very rarely measured on an all or nothing scale. Most outcomes are measured via a degree of gains. For example, a smoker may not entirely quit smoking but he may cut his nicotine intake substantially. A sprinter may not win her race but could have run a personal best. A salesman may earn 80% of m sales target but this is better than 110% of the 0k target form the year before. Either way, although all these targets were not met, the overall performance was improved.
This can be hard to get your head around. Why are you aiming to fail? This is simply not the case. It has also been researched that to miss a target by a small margin can be highly motivating and can actually reinforce the belief that the goal can be achieved meaning the individual will try even harder the next time.
Following these steps you will drive yourself to keep adapting to new levels of higher achievement. In the end, it is the fear of failure that causes us to stress. The stress that then causes us to adapt to perform better and make us create better ways of doing things, eliminating the risk of failing again. It is this eliminating of the risk of failure that takes us to the next level.
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