Stop leaving your comfort zone

Why your exit strategy is not a strategy

I work with a lot of lateral thinkers and creatives who want to transform their career and business.

Many of them come to me with a statement like this:

I want to exit my current profession but I can't seem to leave my comfort zone!

Here's the issue with that statement:

If you are talking about change in a way that makes it only about ?leaving the comfort zone“, no wonder you don’t pursue it.

You have to move from a fear "fight or flight" operating model into a growth-based "creating" one.

Let me help you to see your two blind spots that are keeping you stuck so you can move on:

The Sunk Cost Fallacy

You most likely frame change as something to avoid because you've built your current self up, either consciously or unconsciously, over the span of your entire life. It's what you've always known.

"What if I'm worse off through change?"

"Is a mediocre but known life not better than an exhilerating but unforseeable one?"

To override this pattern and change, ask yourself:

"-If I were to arrive on this earth empty, without my history, would I actively seek out the career/partnership/lifestyle I am living right now?"

If not, what would you rather love to do?

At any moment you can create your life anew.

You don't have to make your past your future.

The Opportunity Cost

Understand that you're making a decision by keeping your current career or relationship. You're actively choosing to stay stuck, even if you say you want to change. A reason for this is opportunity cost:

• When you make a decision, you give up all other options and their potential benefits.
• So there is a clear cost to choosing your current path. You're blocking yourself from new opportunities.

The alternative is to change.

Understanding opportunity cost helps in decision-making by considering not only the benefits of your current option but also what you're missing out on.

Ponder these questions, in the order they appear here:

1. What are the consequences of maintaining the status quo and not making any changes?
2. What do you envision gaining by changing? What's the ideal outcome?
3. What benefits are you currently experiencing by staying on your current path? How is it serving you?
4. What are some of the challenges or obstacles you foresee on the path to your ideal state through change?

By reflecting on these questions, you can assess both the potential gains and losses, as well as your readiness and commitment to change.

You might choose to stay on your current path. That's fine, but do so consciously!

Move into your Growth Zone

After you’ve explored these two blindspots above for yourself, approach the new you're neglecting with a sense of excitement.

After all, you're not only leaving the old behind and creating a vacuum.

You're moving from the comfort zone into your growth zone.

If you want to change your creative career, join me in my mission to help creatives not only working on what they love but also creating energy and time for all the other aspects of their life.

DM me "Opportunity" to talk through your transformation.

Stay creative!