Elevate yourself and conquer the Greatest Fear

People are comfortable doing what they do best. They make it their comfort zone. This impact their way of life. It is their strength, and they capitalize on it. An identity define characters that reinforce strengths, and indicates weaknesses. We all know who and how we are.

Most people are result-driven and aware of using their identities in what they do, how they are, and even their social lifestyles. So they use their identity to position themselves. We place ourselves where we are mostly comfortable. A person who is social and focus driven can be positioned as a social worker, because he/she put their social skills to practice. Their focus is getting other people to open up to them, making their job easier.

This position normally involve assessing critical information, because they deal with bad home environment. They get the abilities to enhance their risk managerial capabilities when facing unforeseen circumstances like someone in the house harassing them or having violence approach. These experiences – good and bad – makes them experts.

You dedicated your life to makes it your masterpiece, and becoming an expert at it. When problems lead to such person being layoff, one door is closed. Bob Marley once said “When one door closed, don’t you know that another one is open?” This quote is forgotten when experiencing it, because we don’t look beyond it. A worker who gets layoff won’t think about any open door, but see emerging problems.

You worry about keeping financial statements intact, problems, and focus on getting a new job. Critical things make everything look bad, and the longer the problem remains, the more frustrated you feel. This motivates planning a solution to the problem. This leads to multiple effects. One problem – being layoff – leads to other problems.

You start looking for work, and lives on savings. When focusing on lost job, you are looking at a closed door, while opportunity is emerging. They are hard to notice, because of bad timing. Opportunities can come from experience. Spending years working for a company mean discovering opportunity to explore. These can be adding value to clients, or finding a flaw that creates a business idea, but you don’t see it.

In best case, you are already thinking about it. In the best case scenario, you see opportunities, but question it. This analyze it, which is a positive thing. In worst case, you doubt the idea itself. The one that question opportunity ask how things will work, which allow improvement, and those that doubt question the idea itself. This is an opportunity because you are taking your experience to a new level.

But doubting the idea means you are doubting something else relating to it. Doubt is the junior sister to fear. Suzy Kassem said “Doubts kills more dreams than hope ever will”. Dreams doesn’t have to be what you’ve always wanted, it can also be an emerging opportunity. Another thing causing problem is ambiguous future. Nobody knows tomorrow. People have tried to predict tomorrow outcome, which is based on probability.

The best companies are based on tactics and strategic decisions collaborating to best position the business. Ambiguity is the source of excitement and adventure. Ambiguity and doubts turn opportunities to problem, and how things will work doesn’t cause fear.  The main problem is facing the greatest fear – uncertainty.  Misunderstanding is problematic, because when you don’t understand things, fear emerge.

It is not the work itself, but a new thing to master – strategic, tactical, management and leadership. If you don’t know about it, you might fear it. Because it takes you from your comfort zone to a new one that enlarge your area of expertise. You need to learn new things, how to leave comfort zone, and add managerial and leadership, and business management skills that elevate your position.

In conclusion, this walks you from comfort zone to a new one. You add a new experience that turns yours skills into a business. In the process of starting and running a business, you learn what you don’t understand. Start embracing additional skills and enhance capabilities that comes with new opportunities. Face your greatest fear – yourself – and start embracing opportunities.