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The Secret About Secrets

When it comes to personal and professional growth, there appears to be plenty of secrets around.

You may perceive that others have been granted insider life information and they aren’t afraid to tell and sell you that they have it and you most certainly don’t, and because you don’t you’re the one missing out.

For example, have you ever come across these:

  • The Biggest Kept Secret to Looking and Feeling Great
  • The Number One Secret to Making Next Year Your Best Yet
  • The Secret to Losing Weight, Forever
  • 7 Hidden Secrets to Getting What You Really Want
  • The Secret to Finding Your One True Passion

Fantastic headlines (nothing wrong with that) however there are no secrets.

None.

When you read information about anything being a secret, ask yourself ‘is it really a secret’, if it’s a secret why on earth is the person sharing it?

When anyone is selling you on a secret, they know what they are doing, they have your mind in a state of curiosity, and your brain loves that. Always has. Always will.

Being human we don’t want to be left out, we like being let in on a secret.

It’s ingrained in our conditioning. Remember the days of your childhood when your friend said ‘can you keep a secret’? How special did you feel?

There are no secrets.

Why am I telling you this?

Question everything, you probably know the information already.

Maybe you just need to apply it. And that has never been a secret.

Who do you listen to? Are they accurate?

 

 

 

 

Writing a Personal Mission Statement

It’s nearing the end of the year and chances are, someone somewhere has asked or you’ve read ‘so what are your goals for the New Year’ or worse ‘what are your New Year Resolutions?’

When you read those statements you may get a fleeting little fuzzy picture of some sort of ideal scenario in your mind of how you would like your life to be.

Then it passes as quickly as it came and you carry on doing what you were doing.

See, goals are great, yet they are only guestimations.

And resolutions, well…erm… I’ve said my piece on resolving gunk at new year before, and I still feel the same as I did last year.

Guestimations are fantastic.

Even better is having direction. A mission. A statement of intent if you like.

Let’s play with writing a mission statement:

Assume you’re a cruise ship heading from the Mediterranean to the Bahamas, the chances are you will make it to the sunny shores. You may venture off course every now and then and have to correct yourself by making adjustments to get yourself back on the right path unless you sink, you’ll make it!

You will arrive because you at least know the direction you’re sailing.

You will have set sail with a good enough plan.

Most people set sail in life with no direction.

No plan, no rough idea, or no thought of the land on the horizon.

They have the goal to sail, but that’s it.

The entire crew of your ship before they raised even the anchor knew their mission and direction. Everyone systematically playing their part to make sure that you arrive in one piece.

Do you have a mission statement?

Have you sat down and thought (great first step, thinking that is), then captured (written, even better second step) your mission statement?

It’s not the easiest task in the world.

Mainly because it’s not something we’re taught and does require a little self-reflection and awareness. And you may need to ask yourself some breakthrough ‘Quest-ions’.

How to write a mission statement

Just write. Bullets, words, statements, remember the quotes that have stuck in your mind? Maybe they will help. I know, you may be have expected some secret tool, but there isn’t one.

In short, you want to create a statement (how long is up to you) about who how you want to live your life and what person do you want to be.

Remember the ‘fuzzy little picture’ you get when people ask you what are your goals? You only need to spend some time making those pictures clearer. Seeing and describing what would be your ideal (make sure your mission isn’t someone else’s mission.)

Don’t edit, plenty time to refine later, just write.

You do know how you want your life to be, we all do.

Consider your career, your business (if you have one), lifestyle, health, spirituality, learning. It’s your mission, it can be whatever you want it to be.

Don’t question what comes up as you write, don’t dismiss what you think is ‘impossible’ or a dream. A mission is usually a big deal!

Refer to it often.

Rewrite it if needed.

Play with it. It will change.

It will begin to include values, goals, hopes, dreams, ways of being, ideas. The end result is creating your own little manifesto, a piece you can refer back to when you are making decisions about your life and career.

You may write to be a ‘loving, considerate, listening parent’, the next time your children test your patience where in the past a quick barking may have been on the cards, you may pause and remember your mission.

A mission sits in alignment with your core values. It’s another piece of the life of passion and purpose puzzle.

It’s just another tool to add to your personal development toolkit, yet a powerful one. Your choice if you want to give it a shot.

Your turn

Have you written a personal mission statement? Does it work for you? Is it something that keeps you on track? 

Here’s What (Some) Hiring Employers are Really Thinking…

So you spend hours (days, weeks, months even) writing a CV, and completing application forms. You pour your soul over it, it’s tough going and then you send it away.

You wait, you wonder, you think about the ‘hiring’ employer and hope they have read your masterpiece.

You wait some more, and then a little more.

You hear nothing.

You say ‘I’ve sent out my CV to 20 places and heard nothing back’. You get disheartened.

You think you might call them and ask for some feedback. But you don’t.

Okay, what I’m about to share with you is not good news, in fact, it’s a bit of a horror story.

I couldn’t even make it up.

But don’t panic, just yet.

Ready?

Let me give you a little background…

I spend a lot of time online.

I stalk a mammoth amount of websites mainly looking for questions that people are asking about careers, confidence and starting a little biz, which in turn help me to create blog posts for you (well that’s the plan!)

Part of this addiction is forums, you know, online communities where people with similar interests, ideas or businesses hang out and get inspired, motivated, annoyed and sometimes generally have moan.

Just a couple of weeks ago I visited a very large and popular small business forum, and there was one thread that caught my eye.

It had the title ‘How hard do you find it to hire staff?’ and it had about 50 replies from various business owners who are responsible for hiring and firing.

My interest was in the replies.

I wanted to know from the horse’s mouth (people hiring) what they found hard, mainly so I can help you.

This isn’t pretty but here are some of the replies to that thread and the reason why I’m so glad you’re here.

Rather than write that usual trite nonsense, just tell us if you are a psycho-loner liable to go on a shooting rampage or are insecure with a strong herd instinct.

Spent all afternoon reading vacuous nonsense-filled CVs composed of trite phrases which mean little and tell me nothing about the person as an individual. I could feel my life ebbing away.

The more people are given ‘help’ with CVs by well-meaning people the more all CVs are saying the same thing. Several of the ones I read today left me with no better idea of the person behind them at all so were binned.

I will choose on looks and that’s entirely human nature – last time we interviewed, one bloke had no chance before he’d even spoken as he was scruffy with tattoos everywhere. (What!)

The other ball-ache about recruiting is the job centre applicants that turn up because they have too or their benefits will be stopped. (This one made my blood boil)

I heard about one person who had 200+ CVs on their desk.. they split the pile in 2 randomly and threw one-half in the bin. They claimed that they did not want to hire unlucky people! (Stunned, I’m stunned!)

Blame the job centre and the “back to work” organisations that assist young job-seekers. It’s practically part of the template they use – jobseeker’s home address, today’s date and trite fluff. (Blame? Seriously?!)

The worst part about all this interviewing malarkey is that clearly some of the people you have seen cannot even read the advert so how are they supposed to the job?

It was the same crap CV after CV of generic answers taken from job websites. In the end, I put all of the what I called ‘void of personality’ CV’s on one side and interviewed the one’s that looked as though they actually gave a damn about getting a job and tailored their CV to the particular job.

I told you it wasn’t pretty.

How do you feel about these? Surprised or angered?

The above is negative news. Some of them are against the law, rude and so darn obnoxious (in my humble opinion). But my professional Careers Hat understands some of the frustrations.

We aren’t given these career lessons in school, we don’t learn this ‘stuff’ until the time comes when we need it.

Your Turn

Erm, your thoughts? I’m still stunned, what do you say? Please feel free to leave a comment below.

Resistance, Quit It!

‘The Resistance’,  I love when people insert the word ‘the’ in front of resistance.

I like breaking arrows. With my throat. I like to see other people break arrows with their throat.

Now, I first got to try this when I was training to become a fire walking instructor, and I actually wasn’t thinking (at first) ‘this is impossible’ because I knew it could be done, I’d witnessed others in the group: snap snap snappity snap.

Rejoice. Clap. Clap. Clap. (cue winning punch)

The time came for me to get up there, in front of my peers

Wow, what a thought rush was had.

In the space of 10 seconds my brain screamed: ‘don’t do this, risky, this is risky, it’s going to hurt, what if you’re the first person the arrow doesn’t break for, oh you’ll be fine, don’t make a fool of yourself, get up there, others are watching you better do it, what if it goes through your eye, what if you can’t do this, you’ll look a right fool, just do it, don’t, relax, your so nervous…on and on’.

Quietly asking my brain to butt out, up I continued.

So there I was, with the sharp end of the arrow on the soft supply part of my throat, the other end against a wall, all I had to do was take a step forward.

One step. One slight movement. Just enough to encourage the shaft to bend, then snap.

That was it.

One push.

And in that ‘moment’ is where most get stuck.

Not just in breaking arrows, but all through life.

That point when the task, activity, goal, idea, whatever it is, requires a final push. When you need to deliver.

That point where a little pain is felt. It’s uncomfortable, not life threatening, but still not pleasant.

That point where there are moments of doubt and ‘can I actually do this, oh wait, hold on, let me stop and think’.

That point where the easiest option is to take a step back and say ‘oh I can’t, maybe next time‘.

Or even worse, getting stopped. Not being able to move forwards or back. There you are stuck with pain and you’re choosing to do nothing about it.

But, you’re going to have to let go at some point, yes? Either by choosing to release yourself from the pain or by going through it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

One day, you may decide to take part in this activity. And I can’t even express in words how you’ll feel, because it’s not really about breaking arrows, but smashing through resistance.

Where do you need to take one small step forward today? What requires a final push?

Do it. Or release it.

Your CV Is Being Binned, Here’s Why…

Why Your CV Is Going In The Bin is a free report and is part of the the Living Moxie Toolkit (free). You can sign up for the toolkit using the box on the right or read the page below and use the box at the bottom. If you want to know what’s in the rest of the toolkit, please click here. Dawn xxx


Now then, let’s get on with ways to improve your CV

Writing a CV is obvious. It’s so simple, so glaring. You know it, but do you do it?

You know why you have CV, you probably know a lot about the definite ‘do’s and don’t’, but some peeps even ignore those.

Your cv has one job — sell.

You do this by selling you not by telling you.

People waste months, squandering their time over tiny details that aren’t going to make a hoot of a difference anyway – where if they just focused on the sell, I bet the process would be easier.

Here’s 7 Ways You Can Improve Your CV Now

1. Skip the Foreplay

What do you have in there that is just a warm up, especially at your personal profile or statement.

Read your CV from your readers perspective, not yours.

At each point ask yourself, ‘so what, who cares, what’s in it for them’  — take ten minutes and think of the reasons why each point  will benefit them, not you.

If you can’t answer it, or it’s not good enough, get it out.

If it starts ‘reliable and hardworking’, or any other CV cliché, come on, seriously? After all your experience, knowledge, qualifications, that’s the most important part.

I bet it’s not.

The first line of your CV has a purpose, to get the next line read, then the next, then the next all the way to the last point.

Yes, people skim CV’s. Highlight in bold two or three of the absolute golden nuggets.

Struggle with sentence structure? Then write smaller sentences.

If you have used a comma, replace it with a full stop. Make the process easy on the eye for the reader. Help them out.

2. Start With Your Strongest Benefit

Will the person reading, instantly (or within 10 seconds) know they will be better of if they meet/hire you?

Or have you hidden your biggest assets? Are they in there somewhere but lost half way down the page.

e.g. Applying for a managerial position?

You could begin your profile with ‘Manager, with 12 years leadership experience…’ not ‘Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills’.

Specific, concrete, to the point. Answer instantly what they are seeking.

Answer the advert, job description or person specification.

3. Yuckie Font Type & Cramming

No comic sans — that is all. No. Never.

The rule (norm or general consensus) is no more than 2 pages. However, that doesn’t mean you squish and squash everything in because you have too much to say!

Cramming does nothing to help the reader. Create plenty white space.

Why? It’s easier to read.

If you are sending your CV via email or recruitment websites and it’s going to be read from a screen, you need to consider this even more.

Light comes from behind and if it’s crammed, with hardly any or no white space it’s very hard to read.

4. Be Respectful of Da Bullet!

Yes, add bullets.

But a list of 20 bullets ‘kinda defeats the purpose of having bullets, no?

  • Bullets are little mini important statements
  • Bullets allow your reader to move easily down the page
  • Bullets aren’t paragraphs, paragraphs are paragraphs!
  • Bullets are lists, we skim bullets, focus at bullet 1, 3, and 7. Make them important.
  • Bullets can also be used to highlight to mark important points
  • Bullets! The key is in the name, quick information
  • Bullets in a CV allow for better digestion of key information

Go through your CV ask yourself if each bullet sells you. Have you repeated yourself in any bullet?

Have you got the most important in 1, 3, 7th place?

Have you more than 7?

Rewrite and delete the fluff.

5. The Layout

Choose the right layout for you, not because it’s a pretty ‘free template’, either chronological, functional or combined.

What’s the difference?

A chronological CV is a good layout to use to showcase your experience and career for a progressive role.

Let’s assume your entire career has been in retail, you started as a Sales Assistant and now are a Manager, maybe not all roles were with the same company, but you can clearly layout your route from where you started to where you are now.

Using a chronological layout: (if applying for a position within the same field) the reader will no doubt recognise the route you have taken.

In your personal statement, clearly state what you are wishing to achieve next in your career, why the experience you have to date will bring added value to the position that is available. Layout positions worked, bullet key experience, qualifications, and your achievements.

A functional CV is great for showcasing your skills and expertise rather than the chronology of your employment so far.

Choose a functional CV if you have gaps in employment or if you have worked for many organisations & employers.

Perhaps your career involves short term contracts, a variety of part time work or you’ve been freelancing, a functional CV will showcase you the best.

Using a functional layout: use the personal statement to showcase achievements.

Choose 4/5 of your key skills to highlight, remembering to keep bullet points to the point. Include voluntary and nonpaid work if it relevant to the position.

6. Sell Don’t Tell

Think of the last big weekly shop that you did. (Go with me here, it’ll make sense, I promise.)

How did you end up with the items you paid for?

Let’s assume ginger nuts were bought. Did buy on how the ingredients were sourced, that the packaging is suitable for recycling or that the butter used was from a cow running free in a field. (You may have, in which case substitute gingernuts for something else!)

Or did you buy them because you remember that you like to dip a ginger nut in a cuppa, watching your favourite TV program, which was coming on that night, you could see yourself all comfy, relaxed enjoying the experience, which is funny as there is a picture on the package with someone doing the same thing!

Sell the benefits.

Heard the saying…

Tell me I forget. Show me I remember. Involve me I understand

An example:

Tell: Worked as a HR assistant with responsibility for administration and training event planning.

Sell: As an HR assistant, 3 years experience working with Senior Managers. Co-ordinated and organised the smooth running of 40+ in house training events per year for all staff. Supported managers in the organising of interview days. Solely responsible for job fair recruitment and used past marketing experience to produce recruitment materials. Proficient in Microsoft Office packages and Adobe Photoshop.

7. Don’t Lose Steam

Your personal profile is the sizzle.

The grabber of attention.

The remainder is the juicy steak.

Remember your reader, they have a pile of CV’s to get through. They will probably have read the same information over and over, in CV’s that have been put together by people who think that their entire CV is going to be read.

Try it, read the same chapter of a book 200 times!

Get their attention, read points 1 and 2. And then keep going.

Don’t lose steam because it’s the last page.

Use plenty verbs. Create pictures in their head.

And never disappoint.

If you give them sizzle via your Personal Profile, proving you have for the role much more than what they were looking for, don’t you dare disappoint them.

Have you ever waited ages for a meal and it was rotten? Same thing applies. Keep the quality the whole way through.

Sorry, but the date, title and where and then the line ‘worked at the (insert where) doing (insert title)’ is a lack of steam.

Choose a functional CV if you struggle or find you are repeating yourself.

Getting to hobbies and interests and putting in any old thing, is a lack of steam.

Making up dates and times is a lack of steam (and lying!)

Lastly, don’t hold back.

Ever.

Your CV is a selling activity, recruiters are expecting to be sold the best you.

Make yourself marketable.

If you struggle finding good things to say about you, it’s an esteem issue, this will help.

Struggle on the structure. Short. Snappy. Sentences.

Stepping Out Of Your Comfort Zones

Short on time?

Quick comfort zone tips:

  1. Your life isn’t a great big failure if you’ve teeny areas of comfort: yes, to grow you sometimes have to do that which scares senseless, but some comfort zones you’ll need, as you prepare and launch for the big stretch.
  2. You don’t need to make one big leap all at once out an imaginary zone. Push yourself everyday.
  3. They don’t really exist, it’s all in your head.  True.
  4. Breathe, and give yourself permission to take it at your speed, get into the flow baby!
  5. You always can stretch further than you may think, try it every now and then.
  6. Know why you are stuck in a zone, change or reframe that first.
  7. Minimise personal risk.

Got more time?

Excellent…

Let’s start with a little blame and moaning because that’s really useful!

FC Houghton and CP Yaglou have a lot to answer for.

Science bitty ahead…

Back in 1923 they coined the phrase ‘Comfort Zone‘: they weren’t coaches, psychologists, or personal development gooroos.

Nope, they worked for the American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers and they developed the Effective Temperature Scale: the temperature range at which the naked human body is able to maintain a heat balance without shivering or sweating.

Science over. Phew!

The term comfort zone is an excellent metaphor to be used for personal growth, it has stood the test of self-help and quotes time, it’s well and truly stuck.

Our brains just ‘get’ it.

Why?

We know what comfort is — oh, yummy, nice, easy, simple, no stress, tuck me in place.

We know what zone is — small, shut off, red lights, barriers, isolation, do not enter here.

Plop the two together, visual perfection.

We both know that a quote such as:

‘You must step out your comfort zone and realise your dreams‘

Actually means: ‘move it, quit the fear, you know what you need to do, get going, stop stalling and resisting, get your butt in gear now, nothing was ever achieved by just sitting on thumb, for goodness sake will you just do it already’.

Yeah.

We all get that.

Or

‘Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new‘

Actually means: ‘you know all the sweat, shaking, fear, pit of your stomach butterflies, terrifying thoughts that you are having? Well it’s worth it, perfectly normal, get it moving’.

Comfort Zone sums it all up, nicely packaged.

However…

I read a post recently that said: “90% of people live in their comfort zone and that you are tired, depressed, worthless, just surviving and life is mediocre if you are.”

Really?

No proof though, not even a link to the research. Shame!

(Rolling Eyes) Oh wait. It wasn’t another made up piece of woowoo to scare people who already feel vulnerable? No, surely not!

A bit like the myth ‘you only use 10% of your brain’ nonsense or ‘our brains are like sponges’. Pah!

Just telling you to ‘step out your comfort zone’, to me, is a bit like telling someone who is experiencing depression to ‘pull themselves together’.

It’s not helpful.

You have a reason for being in the zone. It may not be a good reason to everyone else, but it is for you. You’re getting something from it, otherwise you wouldn’t be there.

If I had my way I would ban the use of the words ‘Comfort Zones’.

It wouldn’t work though.

No, I’m not being defeatist; it’s because it’s that sticky.

It’s a bit like the majority of us call implements that clean up the floor ‘hoovers’. When you may have a Dyson, or Vax. Or doing an Internet search you say ‘I’ll Google it’ not ‘I’ll Yahoo/Bing/MSN it’.

And anyway what would I replace them with? From the top of my head…

Sheep Pens? Fear Circles? Puddles? Enter Area 51?

Nah. The phrase works.

So we’ll roll with it.

But..

Can we pllleeeaasssee go a little deeper…

A comfort zone  is psychological ‘place’ where you feel comfortable, at ease, not threatened, it’s what you physically, psychological and emotionally can tolerate.

1. You have thousands of comfort zones (plural). Life isn’t one big zone.

Some you will find it easy to stretch, others not so much. And it all depends on your self-image in the area of the zone.

And like the temperature scale, you probably have a few degrees either side of what you can tolerate.

See, ‘step out’ your comfort zone, suggests that you need to move it all in one go. No. You can shimmy, hop, skip, jump, baby step your way out.

2. Stepping out can do more than harm than good. What! Yes, keep reading.

Say for example you have a fear about public speaking (which you’ve been taught, but we’ll get to that another day), you decide to step out your ‘zone’ and just go for it.

Up onto the podium you go.

What if you bomb? What if it is w-a-y worse than you ever thought it would be. You just want to hitch-hike (word two!) it out the country. It was really painful to you and your audience.

What, truthfully, is the chance of you ever trying again sometime soon?

Nope, you will return very quickly to the ‘safe zone’ or otherwise known (in this example) as the ‘I can’t speak in public zone’ and rest up there.

I’m not saying don’t ever step. I’m saying weigh up all the risks. If the risks are HIGH, you may need to have carry out a ‘mental’ risk assessment. Is the risk worth it? How can you minimise the risk before the stepping?

Which leads me to…

3. Where’s the advice if it all goes belly up and you’re left worse off for stepping?

To come out some of your comfort zones you may need (sometimes), tools, knowledge, experience before you make the step, safely.

And it might go pear shaped, it might. But then it might not. Trying something once, not succeeding is not enough evidence to never try again.

4. What’s the matter with having a wee stretch?

Say, you want to move house. You’re scared. A little apprehensive. Do you just say ‘I’m stepping’ and instruct your estate agent to buy for you any house on the market? No. You go and look at a few. You see what others are like. You wander around others living spaces picturing what it would be like if you lived there.

You ask questions. You drive round the area, perhaps visit the schools and go to the local take away.

Why can’t the same be translated into other areas of your life?

Want to write a book? Then take a writing class.

Want to change career? Then speak to the people doing the career you want. Go visiting to companies and organisation you want to work for.

Want to start a business? Then attend networking events and conferences where business owners are meeting.

Test it. Stretch it.

You are able to increase the comfort zone temperature a couple of degrees yes? Well, once you are there, in the new zone, and that becomes comfortable do the next thing, then the next, then the next.

Stepping out a comfort zone, is not to scare yourself half to death. Well, it doesn’t have to be. Why would anyone want to do that anyway?

5. When can you rest a little, take a breather and then move on again?

Do you have to do it all at once? I believe a little breather every now and then is okay. You aren’t stopping. You are resting. Pace it.

6. Is it much more advantageous to know why you are ‘in there’ in the first place?

Now, this is a mega one. If you’re in a zone that you don’t like, that you know it’s not good for you and are fighting resistance to stay there because it is feeding and offering you something (only you will know what), I think the first step is facing the reason why.

And, in my experience when you know the reason why, zones actually crumble anyway. You no longer think in ‘zones’. The world becomes access all areas.

7. They all aren’t bad!

You need some. Your brain will not allow you to be unsafe. It’s primary role is survival: safety.

Good coaches/trainers/mentors know that no matter how they work you with, we cannot move you forward. 80% of the time we are challenging your resistance to change or you’re challenging us to stop bringing up your resistance!

You already know where in life you are crouched into a teeny little ball, held hostage and small.

And you know what needs done.

Yes, you do.

Whether you do it or not, well that’s a different story.

Comfort zones don’t exist, they are only there because you have created the ideas of what is and is not possible for you: where you are comfortable, your images of who you are, where you think you belong, self-esteem, confidence, beliefs all play a part.

If you’re carrying out a behaviour that makes you anxious, a little stressed, uncomfortable, trust your brain. It’s your inbuilt self-regulator or thermostat: it won’t let you be unsafe, it will get you the hell out of there.

It will however search for past experiences, emotions and physical responses, so it knows how to behave for you. If you have already taught it that the ‘one thing’ that stretches you is ‘horrible, you can’t do it, you’ll fail, oh remember the last time’ it can only give you the physical, psychological and emotional response that matches the thought.

First, change the thoughts. See yourself in the situation actually doing it, all through your thoughts. (There is an exercise in this post that will help.)

So, here’s a plan…

Write down 10 things that scare the hell out of you but you want to bring about:

  1. Ask yourself, is this worth the risk?
  2. How do you know?
  3. What will carrying it through give you?
  4. What will it take away?
  5. What will you be trading or giving up?
  6. How can you minimise the risk?
  7. Where did you learn that it was scary?
  8. Do you have enough personal proof, or did you gather evidence it from others?
  9. If it’s worth it, when will you start to build up the evidence that you will be safe?
  10. Who can you recruit?

Don’t think they have to be  massive: making cold calls, putting out a newsletter, joining a group, sending of your CV, joining a class, losing weight, dealing better with conflict.

Choose 10 that you have been resisting.

Okay, at the end of all this maybe FC Houghton and CP Yaglou did coin a great phrase, out of all the metaphors for personal growth and development it is a good one, if they were still alive I probably would buy them a popsicle (I know, bad choice. But the word didn’t fit elsewhere.)

Go and do your best…

But before you do, here’s two fantastic mindmaps all about comfort zones.

They are from Paul at MindMapInspiration (follow him on twitter at @mindmapdrawer). Click on the image and you’ll be taken to his website — which is mindmap heaven, and awesomeness.

Like the mindmap? (It is good, I agree) Click on it to go to mindmapinspiration — loads more.
And again Paul Foremans Mindmaps — click on it to go to mindmapart.com

 

Your Turn

Tips, techniques, tools, ideas for moving past resistance and stretching a comfort zone?

Photo credits: IceSwimming