Dear Friends,

If you want to improve your life, athletic performance, leadership or sales please consider…

Get comfortable being uncomfortable …

If you are always comfortable, you are probably stagnant. Your comfort zone is where you are competent and use to being. Your comfort zone is where you get your current results. If you want different results, new or better results, you have to get out of your comfort zone and do something different.

Would it make sense for an athlete to be comfortable while strength training? Of course not! How do you get stronger unless you work your muscles until they begin to hurt?

This week, what if you did something out of your comfort zone … it will take courage … you will experience both excitement and fear. You will feel very alive. What if you did something out of your comfort zone every week … how big would your comfort zone become? Pretty soon, those things you did that use to be courageous acts, are now in your comfort zone and you are confident doing them. Remember your firsts, first kiss, first big win, first sale, first mortgage. How did your feel with these experiences?

When I was teaching my daughter to cross country ski, she proudly said, “Daddy, I haven’t fallen” (she had walked on her skies about 10 feet in 10 minutes). I said, “I’m sorry, I need to teach you how to go faster, it’s much more fun and you will fall once in a while learning, and that’s a good thing.” So, I taught her how to go faster and she fell many times that day, but ended up cruising along on her skis having a blast by the end of the day.

Personally, being outside of my comfort zone is where I feel most alive and energized … please consider, “Get comfortable being uncomfortable”.

With Self-Discipline
Comes Freedom … and Success

Discipline gets a bad rap because it’s often thought of as abusive, something to fear. However, there are different types of discipline. There’s abusive discipline (think beaten with a stick) and self-abusive discipline (remember the EnCOURAGEment of the self-berating woman who looked in the mirror everyday and said, “You are fat and ugly!”).

But there’s also self-discipline: doing what you commit to do, when you say you will do it. Self-discipline is critical to make your goals your reality. Some entrepreneurs, salespeople, athletes and network marketers have wonderful goals but not much self-discipline — they don’t become high performers. Goals without self-discipline is a wish list.

Every Olympic athlete, elite entrepreneur and top salesperson I know has very high self-discipline. One former Olympic athlete turned real estate agent was earning about $500,000 a year when he asked me to help him “…clean out anything that is blocking my success.” He was so devoted to this that he committed to driving four hours to my office, working deeply for five hours and then driving home again. That’s 13 hours he committed to spend each time we worked together! This man’s self-discipline allowed him to easily create emotional and financial freedom and success.

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.”
— Jim Rohn, author and motivational speaker

- TC North, Ph.D. High Performance Expert