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Discovering Success Outside Of Your Comfort Zone: Part 2

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Discovering Success Outside Of Your Comfort Zone: Part 2

     I received a lot of positive responses to last week’s blog that focused on leaving your comfort zone. It seems that most people recognize their comfort zone and feel an internal struggle of whether to stay in it or venture to the unknown. The people who leave that comfort zone are typically the most successful. It’s hard to believe that risk and all the fear involved can be freeing. It almost feels counterintuitive, but it’s actually not. It’s actually about intuitively realizing that your comfort protects you, but doesn’t promote you.                      

     I was working with a client recently who [...]

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Discovering Success Outside Of Your Comfort Zone

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Discovering Success Outside Of Your Comfort Zone

    When looking at the goals you want to achieve and the things you want to accomplish, it is easy to get to the place of overwhelm that I have mentioned frequently in my blogs. When I was first starting my business I had to allow myself to be comfortable with discomfort and overwhelm. Why? Because in order to reach your larger goals you need to get out of your comfort zone.

     I attended a goals workshop in the beginning of this year. The speaker introduced me to a concept I had already known, but for some reason at that point [...]

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Scaling Back to Rev Up Your Career

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Scaling Back to Rev Up Your Career

    I know it’s a cliché, but your perception really is your reality. What would you be willing to do to achieve your goal? What would you be willing to give up? I was at a conference last weekend and heard a highly successful consultant and writer talking about her business plan. It wasn’t what you would expect from a person earning a six-figure salary working for some of the major companies in the U.S. and abroad.

      Why do I say that? She wanted to take a year off from consulting and care for her newborn and launch different areas [...]

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Is It Really A Failure? Tell Your Story Backwards

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Is It Really A Failure? Tell Your Story Backwards

     Mistakes? How do you perceive them? Do you avoid them or learn from them? How you react to life circumstances that seem like mistakes? Your responses to these questions tell a lot about your approach towards success. I have not come across a successful person yet who did not have their fair share of mistakes and yes, failure. In fact the most successful people in general have the most failures. Why is this? Because taking risks reaps the greatest reward, this reward might not be solely monetarily. What you learn from and how you respond to failure often leads [...]

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Manifesting Your Goals And Dreams

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Manifesting Your Goals And Dreams

     All month I’ve been talking about goals: how to make, schedule, and achieve them. I have some clients who say “I’d like to have goals but I don’t know where to start or I am not really interested in changing my job, I’m content, but still feel something is missing”. Goals don’t have to be geared towards building high-powered careers or businesses. They can be living your passion and achieving happiness in your personal life. The objective is finding the part of your soul that feeds you and following it to the places that bring you joy. Whether it’s [...]

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Getting Smart About Goals

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Getting Smart About Goals

     Wow, I have gotten so many interesting submissions to the “What’s the craziest thing you’ve done to achieve a goal?” contest. It’s really amazing what people will do to achieve a goal; it’s also interesting how much resistance people have to setting or achieving goals. I also noticed a pattern where people who had achieved the goal were analyzing what they had done and whether it was the right or wrong way to approach meeting the goal.                

     As a “recovering” perfectionist (I say recovering because it’s a hard habit to break), I think it’s important to allow yourself to [...]

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Moving From Overwhelm To Action

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Moving From Overwhelm To Action

     We’ve talked a lot lately about becoming clearer on your goals and creating action plans. The number one problem for many of my clients is moving from the goal to the action. It’s not that they don’t have good intentions or lack the motivation; it’s the big O word that gets in their way. OVERWHELM. Many of us want to move on and achieve, but get stuck in the overwhelm. There is so much to do, decide, and a tremendous amount of choices, so it’s not uncommon to know what step to take next.

     What it all comes down [...]

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Detaching From Fear To Experience Success

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Detaching From Fear To Experience Success

     Many clients tell me about fears of many varieties. Some of my blog readers also write me about the fears they have. I hear about fear of success, fear of failure, fear of life in general. What all of these fears have in common is that they turn into a real fear of action. This can be a dangerous place if you seek to make improvements in your life.

    Fear is a natural reaction, it happens to all of us. It is an innate protective mechanism in humans (fight or flight), but it goes into overdrive at times which [...]

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Achieving Happiness By Challenging Limitations

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Achieving Happiness By Challenging Limitations

     In recent blogs, I’ve discussed the idea of turtle steps with my readers. Turtle steps is the idea of breaking your goals into very small “doable” achievable pieces. Pieces so small they are easy to accomplish, but each step leads to a very big goal getting completed. Some of my clients have resistance to this idea, they want it all and they want it very quickly. When the “all” doesn’t happen quickly, they are frustrated.

     Last week I had the pleasure of hearing Penelope Przekop discuss her book “Aberrations”. I read the book and found it to be not [...]

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Creating A New Career By Fighting Fear

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Creating A New Career By Fighting Fear

     For months now I have noticed other bloggers and columnists writing about the horrible economic situation our country is facing. I have consciously avoided the topic, because frankly I was tired of hearing about it every time I turned on the TV and I figured my readers were as well.

     Then, last week I happened to be staying at a hotel and a USA Today was dropped outside my door. I went to the money section and at the bottom I saw this survey question: “Are you happy being an entrepreneur in the current difficult economic situation?” 88% of [...]

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