Tag: Comfort zone

How To Keep Growing

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

Growth never stops. It is a journey. If you want to keep growing, you must keep doing.

You must keep becoming. You must keep challenging yourself. Because we get better when we do more, when we focus on what is really important to us.

Do things that you have not done before. That is where learning is.

Do not settle for less. Doing less is not a strategy. It is going to keep you where you are.

To grow yourself, to expand your life, according to Marthy Neumeier, ‘ … always aim slightly beyond your current abilities. … Focus on the metaskills that will drive your professional success.’

And you can do that. All you need is focus. When you focus on what you are doing, you can do more than you are doing right now.

Just get out of your safe zone. Take on things that are not within your safe zone. If you really want to get to your next level, according to Marthy Neumeier, ‘take on projects and responsibilities that lie outside your comfort zone.’

How To Get More Important Things Done

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

You can do more. You have what it takes to do more, to get more important things done. Getting busy is good. It is not a bag thing. The question is, ‘What are we busy doing?’

Just getting busy for the sake of getting busy is not going to get you what you want. You are not going to be able to achieve your dreams by doing the wrong things.

You are not going to arrive at where you are going if you are on the wrong path. Unless you change what you are doing, what you are getting is going to stay the same.

Unless you change your thoughts, your actions are going to stay the same. Unless you change what you are doing right now, where you are going is not going to change. Your results are not going to change.

To change where you are going, to get more done, get yourself together. Get your thoughts together. Do not worry about your results. Because what you are doing right now is not the end of your growth. It is just the beginning of your growth. And no one can grow, no one can do more if we are not willing to fail, if we are scared to be who we are. And if we are not willing to make ourselves uncomfortable.

To get more done, ask yourself, ‘What is it that I really want to achieve in my life? What is stopping me from doing it? Why am I not there yet? What is holding me back? How am I going to get over what is holding me back? What am I going to do? Who can help me?

Be real when you are answering the above questions. Do not lie. If you lie, you will never grow. Why is that? Because growth starts with honesty.

Say positive things to yourself. When you are going through challenges, say something like, ‘I can do this. I have done it before.’ Positive words relaxe our nerves. Negative words depress our nerves.

To get more done, focus on what is important to you, what you want to get done. When it comes to getting more done, it is not about more. It is about doing what is important to you, not what is urgent.

Remember, when it comes to getting more done, activity is not productivity. Do not forget that.