By N. George
Worth Noting:
- Inventions and innovations are of great importance in a man’s life and society in general. They promote the power of imagination, activate the potential energy in a person and convert it in to kinetic energy, provoke new thoughts and questions, opens up the world of unknown, removes existing barriers, bring new way of living shaping what we do and how we do it.
- Though it lives and acts from a hidden place within us, fear of exploiting our potentials for the longest time ever have been and still is the greatest stealer of dreams and by extension the resources in the world. It have held back human development since time in memorial.
Are you scared of venturing into a new business because of the global impacts of covid-19 which have changed many business models making you to fear that the direction of future business may not be predictable with precision?
Are you afraid to engage in new relationship despite having received several offers the reason being that you were hurt in your previous relationships?
Are you not willing to go back to school on the basis that many schools have opted for e-learning and last time you were in school learning was conducted in the lecture halls with student and lecturer in the same venue facing each other?
What is it that you are scary about in life, what is holding you back from taking the bold steps forging ahead and discovering what is beyond the horizon?
Moving out of comfort zone requires you to be willing to give up all you have to pursue your dreams with the outcome of your adventure not being guaranteed. It requires you to change the lenses which you previously wore while looking in to the world. It opens doors for criticism as those who do not understand you and are unwilling to wait and see the impact of your newly devised ways will start blaming you for disruption of the existing order while the religious ones with associate you with magic and worship of foreign deities.
Inventions and innovations are of great importance in a man’s life and society in general. They promote the power of imagination, activate the potential energy in a person and convert it in to kinetic energy, provoke new thoughts and questions, opens up the world of unknown, removes existing barriers, bring new way of living shaping what we do and how we do it.
Though it lives and acts from a hidden place within us, fear of exploiting our potentials for the longest time ever have been and still is the greatest stealer of dreams and by extension the resources in the world. It have held back human development since time in memorial. Almost everyone in the world at one time or the other have eaten its bitter fruits of regret through asking oneself the question what if I tried, why did I refrain from doing this and that. Fear promotes obedience to the rule of uncertainty and insecurity.
We can conquer our worries through reestablishment of our courage and creation of stories that impact billions of people globally, set bench marks on what future generations would use to launch their abilities to higher heights.
Some of the signals that we are living in comfort zone have been discussed below.
You are good in avoiding conflict. Are you a people pleaser? Do you agree with everything that is done to you without giving it deeper thought? Would you scoop a medal should there be awards for the most contented, tolerant and submissive people in the world? If yes then know that in most cases you are killing your inventive and innovative ability.
Change of horizon comes with resistance as new ways of carrying out businesses are created and the current normal is surpassed or completely eliminated.
Always want to be right Are you afraid of failing? If so you must be afraid of trying and accelerated success is far from you. The lenses that you use to view the world are one sided. A critique may term you as naive owing to the fact that you are unable to differentiate between what works and what do not work. It is hard to establish whether you are a sleeping giant or a sleeping dwarf.
You enjoy mastery in every action you take. Should you find that you are able to take all the tasks allocated to you at ease owing to your good memory of how you have been doing those tasks in the past then be assured that you have not fully exploited your potentials, you are benefiting from the warmth of living in the comfort zone. Challenge yourself to climb into higher heights where you will experience the unknown, scrutinize it and come up with newer and better methodologies of doing things. Unchallenging life leads to unrewarding life.
Ability to project future occurrences with certainty. There is a feel good effect whenever you are able to tell what will happen in the coming days with certainty more so if the enabler of your prediction is masterly of the subject. A deep analysis in to this ability will show that you are not willing to take enough risk and that is the reason behind you not experiencing or expecting uncertainties. You are a pro status quo person who does not think beyond the box and explore the unseen world, create new opportunities and reshape the way people live.
You are a decision taker and not a decision maker. Do you make initiatives or you just react to whatever happens in your life. Failure to take initial steps disempowers you from leaving the comfort zone. You live as a subject throughout the life, comes up with nothing new, loses confidence, exists just as an ordinary person and to your life is just a push. You remain expectant to hear what others will guide you.
Failure to have alternatives. Do you follow just a single line of production and are unaware of what else exists in the world, you never think what else you can do should your current path get turbulent then count yourself as a person who is living in comfort zone and require deeper thinking.
In conclusion failure to fully utilize your energies makes you uncompetitive, leads to regrets at later stages of life when you realize what you have wasted.
Mary Karau Ngethe