Overcoming Challenge and Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone.

Print out this page and work through the questions below writing down your answers.

1    What do you want to do? What things  do you regularly speak about, challenges you want to undertake but about which so far you have taken no action?

2    What is holding you back?

The things that are holding you back are your comfort zones, for example, you may want to start a new career abroad but feel a sense of fear about trying something new.
OR
You may want to build a better social life but just don’t seem to get round to getting out and about to new events, groups or social activities.

Select a comfort zone that you are ready to challenge?

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3    How does this hold you back?

What are your fears?

How do you know you are ready to make a change?

4    Clearly list in the space below the actions you are going to take to expand your comfort zones?

5    What are you going to do differently in the next 7 days?

6    Who are you going to tell about your plans?

Research has shown that we are much more likely to carry out our intended actions if we have shared our intentions/plans with someone else.

If you want to you can email your action plan ideas to me email hidden; JavaScript is required and I will hold you accountable by checking in after 7 days to find out what progress you have made.

Source: Arewa, C, S (2009) Toolbox, The Bulletin of the Association of Coaching, October 2009, Issue 20.