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"In order to say 'Yes' to what you want, you have to learn to say 'No' to what you don't want." The Purple Monkey Although the 'Purple Monkey' is the alter ego I use when talking to people about how to say 'No' without feeling guilty, his wisdom applies for those who want to say 'Yes' to developing their Dream Career that gives them deep career satisfaction. How? We all exist within our individual comfort zones. In that comfort zone we are saying 'Yes' to all kinds of things like: staying in a job we don't like because we have 'only' 12 more years to retirement; vegging out in the evening because we don't want to expend the effort of investigating something new; going along with the program that's been set for us but not by us; allowing ourselves to stay unconscious about the possibility of creating different choices. Let's face it. Getting out of our comfort zone is challenging. It means we must rouse ourselves from the 'comfort' the comfort zone provides. There's a reason it's called THE COMFORT ZONE! It's comfortable. It's comforting. It's cozy. It's where we feel confident and safe. Getting out of that comfort zone will definitely create anxiety, fear, trepidation, concern, push-back, hesitation . . . in other words, UN-comfortable feelings. Why then would we ever choose to leave this nice cocoon called the Comfort Zone??? Because otherwise we will never grow. We will never achieve our dreams. We will never become bigger, more productive, more skilled, more developed or more capable than we are now. And chances are, we will never experience the value of work in a deeply meaningful career. The truth is, we're required by life to get out of our comfort zones constantly. We leave middle school for high school; we graduate from high school to leave home and go to college or to the military; we find a life partner; we have children; we take jobs and get promotions; we experience sickness in ourselves or others, and so it goes. We learn how to handle these life events and we grow from them. In fact, those who don't go through most of these life events, remain fixated at a young age and rarely develop the skills to handle the challenges of later life. What we can learn from this realization is that we can also make a choice to grow, rather than solely relying on life to give us the opportunities. We can pick the ways we'd like to grow and often, when. But making that choice requires that we say 'No' to some of the habits and patterns we now have within our Comfort Zone. Once we take a stand for ourselves and say 'No' to those behaviors that keep us in the Comfort Zone, we can begin to energize ourselves by looking at what we can do to say 'Yes' to ourselves. We can say 'Yes' to creating meaningful work that gives us deep career satisfaction. We can say 'Yes' to creating our future as we would like it to be. How can we create the energy to move forward? First of all, realize that ACTION TRUMPS FEAR EVERY TIME. I already said that moving out of the Comfort Zone will create anxiety and fear. Move that fear away by taking action. I have a friend who is a speaker and has wanted to write a book, but she was petrified. She and several others created a joint mentoring group. With the group's help, she learned to take tiny, small steps toward her dream. One day, she bought a pen; next day, she bought a tablet. She made an agreement with herself to write one sentence per day; then one paragraph. Now she is writing a page a day and is now confident she will complete her book. Her actions, insignificant though each one was, gradually built a momentum to help her move much more consistently in the direction of her dream. You can do the same. A second, powerful action you can take to say 'Yes' is to name the essence of what you want and focus on it, even if you don't know specifically yet what that is. Just get in touch with the FEELING of happiness, peace and contentment you will feel when you have become the MORE you know yourself to be. Then take whatever actions you are inspired to take and before you know it, you will be living the life you dreamed of! You'll have that dream career, and you'll be experiencing what it's like to be engaged in meaningful work with a purpose. Here's to your adventures OUT of the Comfort Zone. Anita Web Weaver is the owner of Design to Shine Consulting, a coaching & training firm. She helps people Shine in their Career, their Life & their Health - NO MATTER WHAT! Get her FREE Book: 9 Golden Nuggets To Help You Get Your Dream Career at Any Age at http://www.dream-career-coach.com ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
