Stuck in Your Comfort Zone

I believe bananas are poisonous. 🍌

If this is your life, it would look pretty specific.

You'd treat the fruit section of the supermarket like a biohazard site.

Freeze at the sight of ice cream Sundays.

Go ape sh*t at the monkey house.

All so you stay safe in your potassium free bubble.

As a lifelong student of the human mind, and a leadership coach trained to help womxn break old habits to assume senior decision-making roles, this is what I've been taught and now observe:

Comfortable Belief (bananas = bad) ➡️Predictable Actions (avoid bananas) ➡️ Desired Results (safety from bananas)

Depending on our experiences, environment, family of origin, identity, culture, our "mental map of the world" leads us to different behaviors and results that conflict with the person we want to become.

Though we say we want to be better, fitter, smarter - we don't always take consistent action. If we did, we'd have to act differently, and that means changing our lives, which, as we know, is often uncomfortable and inconvenient.

However, at any stage, in this chain, we have a choice point.

Old comfortable belief: "I'm never enough."
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New belief: "I am good as I am."


Predictable action: "I will collate this memo within an inch of its life."
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Different action: I show up to the meeting, prepared but not drained.

Then we observe: Did shifting one or the other get different results? **

Or maybe we got the same outcome (the meeting went well) but with less effort and frustration.

Either way, leadership starts between your ears, you have a choice.

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