I’m right now listening to some incredibly fascinating material from Eben Pagan as David DeAngelo.
He’s talking about breaking out of your comfort zone… and how most people spend their entire lives trapped in a box.
As an entrepreneur, as a business person, you absolutely MUST continually get out of your comfort zone. That’s why being an entrepreneur is so hard.
One interesting thing he mentioned was that when we are actively engaging in new behaviors, do new things, and keep pushing ourselves, we form new brain pathways. Neurogenesis.
When we do, we feel young.
When we don’t… when we get “stuck in a rut” – that means we’re getting trapped by our habits, and keep doing the same thing over and over… and that’s when we start feeling old.
This makes a lot of sense to me.
Picture a typical, healthy 5-year-old kid. EVERYTHING is new. Everything is a discovery… everything is an adventure.
What happens is that after a while, things stop being new… and if we want to continue evolving, we must go out of our way to find new things.
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When we approach the edges of our comfort zone… fear sets in. We get scared. “If I do this, that might happen!”
This is what Seth Godin and Steven Pressfield talk about a lot.
This is the law. Happens every time. When we are about to cross the boundaries of our comfort zone… when we’re right there, just before actually undergoing development and growth as a human being… we get scared.
Fear. The fire under the ass of humanity.
What this means, is that if there’s something you’re scared shitless of doing, that is a good indicator that you should do it immediately.
I used to be scared, for a number of reasons, of doing my own continuity programs. “will I be able to come up with new content each month?” “will my customers like it?”
All moot. Redundant objections. Really, just fear being rationalized.
Every reason you come up with to stop yourself from doing something, is you rationalizing your fear. Or as some like to call it, being a wussy.
If you can put yourself in a state of being perpetually scared shitless… your results will skyrocket in every area of life.
(provided that you’re always scared by NEW THINGS, as opposed to being trapped into being afraid of the same thing for a long period of time… which would have the opposite effect)
These were some of my own recent insights, I hope you find them valuable as well.
Talk soon,
Linus
P.S. Next week I’m releasing some training on an extremely interesting, low-stress business model designed around lifestyle. A model that will support your ideal lifestyle (as opposed to just making a bunch of money for the sake of having a bunch of money). Stay tuned. If you’re not on my list, sign up on the right.
