We should all take risks – shouldn’t we?

As you know the last month has been fairly challenging for me,  I missed a month.

Now I’m able to lift my head up, I’ve realised that I’ve got back into my comfort zone, and that’s no good when you’ve got goals to achieve. Is it?

During May I did everything people asked of me. I ticked things off my lists, and felt good doing it. But I felt that I wasn’t achieving anything. I was, but I didn’t FEEL like I was.

As I’m updating my goals, after a motivational session with Emma Wimhurst, as part of her BOOM! programme, I realise that I HAVE to take steps out of my comfort zone and into that risky area to be able to move forward. I was prompted again today by Seth Godin’s blog Disaster Tolerance, which talks about how we can plan for disasters, or at least reduce the risk to ourselves and our business of crises taking us down. And by getting used to this way of working, we become more tolerant and our comfort zone expands. (more…)