What Stepping Outside of Our Comfort Zone Looks Like
The fear of making a mistake or, worse, failing often paralyzes people into inaction. Great things don't happen by chance, they happen by change and often a heck of a lot of work! I've been stretching myself in so many ways this year. Have I made mistakes, absolutely! Have I had a ton of fun exploring new ways to show up better for my family and clients? More than I could have ever imagined. Stagnation is a terrible place to be. We have to remember that when evaluating our business and planning for the future. I know we all spend a lot of time helping our clients through the anxiety of change, promising them that it will all be worth. So, friends….I'm challenging you to tell yourself the same thing!
What Stepping Outside Looks Like
Messy….it can look messy at first, but who cares? It's way better than being stuck somewhere. It's a bit like spring cleaning. Sometimes it needs to get worse before it gets better.
I've long been a risk taker, but I also know that I've gotten in my own way on plenty of occasions. Maybe it was because I was chasing something to make more money, hit a higher sales volume, or rank better, or maybe it was because I was afraid of failing. I can still hear a manager I had when I was fairly new in real estate. He always used to say, “Kid, you have great ideas. You just need to get out of your own head.”
The photo☝🏻 is from the filming of my new podcast that I'm hosting with another local badass real estate broker, Kim Borcherding. Did we have any idea what we were doing while filming this podcast….nope! Do we both have a lot to say? Definitely. Will we fine-tune the process? Of course. Was it all comfortable? Nope, but I have wanted to do a podcast for 5 years. I was simply getting in my own way, overthinking it, and not prioritizing it. It felt great to bust through that self-imposed roadblock.
When you look around at those in our industry who are blazing trails or making an undeniable impact on the market through video, social media, hosting local events…., or whatever it may be, I bet none of them began comfortably with what they are now excelling at.
I'm in this season of my career, where collaboration with those who inspire me is at the forefront of my decision-making. We cannot all be good at everything! I want to learn from those that are doing things better than me, those that have forged paths, I have never even thought of. I am continually focused on collaboration over competition. As the market shifts with commission changes, this is going to be more important than ever.
Let's all make stepping outside of our comfort zone the norm and see where it takes us!
