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.
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