Comfort Zone … What Comfort Zone? 
The last of my three keys to help you Be Good and Get Better (and succeed in 2013) is going to sound illogical and contradictory. I’m challenging you to get uncomfortable. Yes, get uncomfortable.
Push yourself. Learn new things. Do what you don’t particularly enjoy. You might surprise yourself with what you are able to do! Write a blog. Speak in public. Become an expert and thought leader in your industry.
Be bolder—not in a braggadocios way, but in an authentically helpful way by offering more insights and ideas at work. Concentrate on getting better at your craft each and every day. You might need to step outside your comfort zone to do that (in fact, it’s almost certain you will at some point or another), but you can do it. I strongly encourage you to try.
Thomas Jefferson said, “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”
Now this is entirely up to you. No one else can really push you to extend and surpass your limits, because no one else knows them like you do! You’re going to have to push yourself, and that’s not easy. But it is how you do what you do better.
One final thought … Nicholas Murray Butler said, “People are divided into three groups: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and then those who wonder what happened.”
Get out there and get uncomfortable in some way every day, and you’ll be someone who makes things happen.
How do you plan to get uncomfortable this year? What new skill or endeavor will you try?
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