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11/9/2020 0 Comments

Is Your Comfort Zone Your Hide-away?

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What makes us the most comfortable may be what stands in the way of our progress. Our comfort zones are our habits that help us reduce stress in the moment. When overused, our comfort zones contribute to loss of productivity. They become our extended or habitual escapes from our realities.
 
When we engage in many of the activities listed below too often or for too long, we feel good about ourselves, we seem busy, we enjoy our mental get-away, and in some cases we avoid conflict. However, we miss opportunities to meet our goals, become more self-motivated, enhance our emotional growth, and make ourselves accountable.
 
If you find a comfort zone activity in this list that you overuse, perhaps this is an opportunity for self-improvement and accountability. Take a look. See if you have an opportunity to improve your use of time.
 
Task-related
  • Accepting tasks when saying "No” is more appropriate
  • Seeking the opinions of others to slow down your decision-making
  • Postponing your work by allowing interruptions
  • Creating elaborate to-do-lists with color-coding and complex tables
  • Lack of delegation to others
  • Multitasking – stalling progress by incorporating an additional task into the same time slot
  • Working on an enjoyable but low priority task when there are important deadlines
 
 
Time Management-related
  • No established routines for daily or repeated activities
  • Perfectionism, checking and rechecking making timely submission difficult
  • Postponing difficult and unpleasant tasks while opting to focus attention on easier and enjoyable tasks
  • Procrastinating in order to create a crisis requiring you to drop everything and put out fires
  • Wasted time with disorganization -- and inadequate preparation, prioritization, and planning
 
Personal Escapes-related
  • Socializing
  • Snacking
  • Planning an imaginary get-away
  • Daydreaming
  • Watching television
  • Streaming videos
  • Taking a nap
  • Tidying up your office, home, etc.
 
Relationship-related
  • Welcoming drop-in visitors and dropping-in to visit others
  • Taking every telephone call and making unnecessary phone calls
  • Volunteering to “help” others
  • Unnecessary meetings, telephone calls, text-messaging, and drop-in visits
 
Technology-related
  • Checking voicemail and e-mail when you don’t have time to reply
  • Checking emails and social media too often throughout the day
  • Procrastinating with social media browsing, posting, sharing, commenting, liking, and updating
  • Playing games on your laptop, tablet, or cell phone
 
You may have a comfort zone that’s not included on the list. Add it to the list and make a decision about how you will use each of your comfort zones. Perhaps they can be used as rewards for a job well done and not an escape from doing a job.
 
Best wishes!
 
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Until then…


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    Donna Coles
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    My Transition From Psychotherapist to Personal Development Coach...

    I was a successful psychotherapist for 30-plus years and I’m still licensed in my home state of Ohio. Two years ago, I made significant adjustments to my life and career and focused my work solely on Coaching.

    Since then, I’ve been asked “how does that fit?”.

    Truth is, some people participate in psychotherapy to help “clarify some things” in their lives and to find direction. For them. it’s a wonderful revelation to know that finding their inner strengths in times of trouble and gaining clarity about current life situations is not a sign of weakness at all. It's a sign of strength.

    It has been said that the most effective coaches draw heavily on theories in psychology and skills-building methods. Both coaching and psychotherapy deal with behavior, emotions and thoughts.

    I have learned that an important key to living an effective life is self-awareness. For this to occur, it often means a journey beyond our current life events and a focus on "why" those events occur. In coaching, I help identify “why” and support my clients’ development of skills to live the life they would like.

    I encourage you to consider working with a professional who provides experience, wisdom and support -- and who also provides you with agreed upon methods of accountability to help encourage you to get things done.

    And, of course, I’d like for you to contact me.

    Would you like more information about my Personal Development Coaching? Or how about a brief, confidential, no-judgement discussion of your current situation? We’ll see if our working together is a good fit.

    Contact my offices at (336) 999-4533 during regular business hours (Eastern Time) or email me at DonnaColes.Coach@gmail.com and we’ll schedule our “getting to know you” conversation.

    Or, Click the following link to schedule a time to talk with me.
    https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18102228  

    Until then…

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