The Discomfort Zone: How Taking Risks Can Lead To A Fulfilling Career
Mar 4, 2024
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Explore how stepping out of your comfort zone can lead to a fulfilling career, as Stephanie doubles her salary after facing burnout. Learn about the importance of discomfort, deep reflection, and incremental steps to navigate personal growth in career transitions.
Facing fears and seeking fulfilling work can lead to salary increases and career growth.
Prioritizing personal growth and values can open doors to new career opportunities.
Deep dives
The Importance of Taking Risks in Career Changes
Many find making career changes daunting due to fear of losing current benefits or stability. However, the real risk lies in staying in an unfulfilling job. Stephanie's experience illustrates the rewards of facing fears and seeking fulfilling work, even surpassing salary expectations.
Embracing Intentionality and Reflection in Career Evolution
Stephanie's career journey highlighted the significance of intentionality and reflection. Transitioning from incremental pivots to deeper self-exploration transformed her mindset. Engaging in meditative practices and reflecting on personal values led her to unearth a passion for organizational culture beyond traditional roles.
The Value of Building Relationships and Making Deposits
Stephanie's advice emphasizes the importance of relationship-building without immediate expectations. By making 'deposits' in connections, she paved the way for job opportunities. Prioritizing long-term strategies over short-term fixes, such as leveraging personal networks and engaging in genuine interactions, proved vital in her career change.
Navigating Multiple Job Offers and Honesty in Decision-Making
Stephanie's experience with multiple job offers underscored the importance of transparency and honesty. Handling the discomfort of turning down opportunities required respectful communication and clarity. Maintaining genuine excitement while expressing understanding contributed to a smoother transition amidst offers and rejections.
Career change can be uncomfortable. You’ll likely have to break out of your comfort zone to progress down a new path that may be full of unknowns 👻
Feeling safe and at ease is great and all, but think about it, what goals have you ever achieved by staying in your comfort zone? We’re willing to bet on not many at all.
Stephanie had an aversion to risk, and was "comfortably unhappy" in her marketing career until she reached burnout and decided she needed to make a change.
Now if we fast forward to what happened at the end of her change, she ended up receiving multiple offers and negotiated with those companies (talk about getting out of her comfort zone) and almost doubled her salary!
Hear how she shifted her mindset to allow herself to go after what she never thought was possible!
What you’ll learn
How to take small steps to ease your way out of your comfort zones
How to use the “5 Whys” exercise as a career change breakthrough
How figuring out what you want gives you more confidence in nerve-racking situations