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What’s Wrong With Staying In Your Comfort Zone?

April 8, 2024 John Uncategorized No comments

What’s Wrong With Staying In Your Comfort Zone?

Why do you stay in your comfort zone? Let’s see.

It’s stress-free. You’re not really challenged.

It’s familiar.

It’s also the place where you’re likely the most dissatisfied with your life. When we stay in our comfort zone, we’re forcing ourselves to stay stagnant.

We’re afraid to change for fear of what could happen. Through habit our brains keep us safe so we stay in our comfort zone instead of facing the unknown.

Staying in our comfort zone though can cause problems as well. GenuLines brings you 8 reasons to question staying in your comfort zone.

Not reaching your goals

If you stay in your comfort zone, you’re less likely to follow through on reaching your goals. You’re procrastinating,

You’re making excuses that keep you from taking action toward your goal.

Lack of growth

Staying in your comfort zone will probably keep you from growing into more than you are right now. You’ll always be stuck, never going forward and never growing and changing.

You might end up not achieving your goals because you’re stuck. You’re doing things the same way you’ve always done them, even when you’re not seeing any results.

You don’t step out of your comfort zone to explore what you’re capable of doing or what you can do.

No or lost passion

Staying in your comfort zone makes it harder for you to discover your path. Expect to find your path outside your comfort zone.

Feeling left behind

Your colleagues and others you relate to seem to race ahead of you. They might have been behind you as far as your life or career.

But because they stepped out of their comfort zones, they’ve passed you by.

Settling for less

By continuing to live in your comfort zone you push yourself to settle for less than you desire. You put your passions or things you love aside.

Your self-confidence lags

While you’re stuck in your comfort zone, you don’t build the confidence you need to grow and take on new challenges.

Your health suffers

Sometimes when you’re not getting out of your comfort zone you aren’t taking care of your health either. It can be from fear of going to the doctor, or not wanting to change your routines.

Do you avoid going to the gym for some reason such as appearing or trying something different?

You’ll be unprepared for changes

You’re inflexible and set in your ways when you stick to your comfort zone. Life can be difficult, throwing all kinds of things at you.

Things can happen that will pull you out of your comfort zone even if you don’t want to. Staying in your comfort zone keeps you from being open to new possibilities.

The reasons we stay in our comfort zone are the same ones that we should be using to step out of our comfort zone. Staying in your zone may feel comfortable.

But don’t limit yourself to settling for mediocrity.

JohnK 4-8-2024
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “By leaving your comfort zone behind and taking a leap of faith into something new, you find out who you are truly capable of becoming.”

~Unknown

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Do You Believe You Deserve Success?

February 26, 2024 John Uncategorized No comments

Do You Believe You Deserve Success?

Many people in this world have a very low opinion of themselves. Often they have low opinions and beliefs about the rest of humanity.

They’re trapped in self-destructive, self-limiting views. And like a disease these views can affect people the holder encounters.

So, what can we do about this? As far as a large-scale approach, there’s not much we can do for the rest of the world.

But as individuals there are a lot of of things we can do.

Today GenuLines looks at the possibilities.

Know Thyself

The fundamental approach that we have to take is to know ourselves at the deepest possible level. What does this mean?

This doesn’t mean knowing the kind of person that we are, or knowing the things we like and the things we don’t like.

Rather it’s understanding the aspects of our lives. Like our capabilities, our strengths, and our weaknesses. And it means our capacity to improve.

The question is whether you believe you deserve success or not. Take the time to go deep into yourself.

You’re here, and you have something to bring to us. But it can be tough to self-reflect.

If you work through the hesitation you’ll be off to a good start.

So, my final question to you is this:

Do You Want To Believe That You Deserve Success?

If you said no, then there’s no sense reading the rest of this post. If your answer is yes, we can move on to today’s key point.

UNLIMIT YOURSELF!

How do you do that? Careful and continuous self-exploration and honest, sincere, and dedicated hard work.

Couple that with effort in the application of self-awareness and self-discovery.

A path of “breadcrumbs” is in front of you. All you have to do is pick them up and follow the trail.

JohnK 2-26-2024

chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve”

– Wilfred Peterson

Doing Anything is Easy (To Excel At It Is Something Else)

January 29, 2024 John Uncategorized No comments

Doing Anything is Easy (Being Good At It Is Something Else)

Many of us have big dreams that we try not to think about. Some people want to be astronauts. some people want to be rock stars.

Yet few people will admit it at a social gathering.
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Problem is, it seems a bit silly to admit to our ambitious dreams and hopes. We figure they have a small chance of becoming real.

We let a fear of failure prevent us from speaking them. What’s worse,, they prevent us from acknowledging them!

Anything Goes?

So can you achieve anything you want to? And can you be whatever you want to be – like the teachers told you at school?

Read on as GenuLines looks at how and why this can be the case.

How to be a Rock Musician
If you want to be a rock musician, what do you do? The first step is to start playing rock.

What you could do next though is to start recording that playing. Then upload it to YouTube.

Do this enough and in time you’ll get a following as people start to add you and subscribe.

Over the course of a few years, you could end up with a list of subscribers. One that’s long enough to make you something of a minor celebrity…

Want to be a novelist?

Then you can write a book and publish it on a self publishing site to be able to say you’re a ‘published author’.

The point is that in some ways it’s easy to become the thing you want to be. Getting to the level where you’re professional is harder,but you don’t need to make your job the thing that defines you.

So in other words, if you want to say you’re a ‘writer’ all you have to do is to ‘write’.

When you look at your goals and dreams like this, it allows you to forget the idea of failure. Failure is no longer an issue and so you can attack your goals with vigor.

You can’t fail when you ‘write regularly’.

You’ll enjoy the things you’re passionate about. And you won’t think you have to lie or downplay your hopes and objectives.

Take your shot at being what you want to be. But remember that getting to the highest levels will take time!

JohnK 1-29-2024
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Ability is active power”

~ Noah Webster

How to Find And Begin Your One Goal

January 1, 2024 John Uncategorized No comments

If you break New Year resolutions try making goals instead. In fact, aim for one goal.

There’s a way to do this and GenuLines has a plan that can help you.

How to Find And Begin Your One Goal

When you sleep, you dream. Even if you don’t remember those dreams when you wake up, you do still have them.

The thing about dreams is that we have them one at a time. They don’t overlap.

They’re okay with waiting in line and taking their turn.

Think about making your goals like your dreams—one at a time. Here are a few ideas from GenuLines on how you can decide on your next goal.

1. Find the ONE goal
It might be that the reason people make vague resolutions instead of New Year’s Goals is that a goal is a big thing. And it can be overwhelming.

But losing the big picture means losing the prize.

Ask yourself these questions:
· Why are you doing what you’re doing? The why provides motivation even when you’re discouraged.

Knowing the why will also help clarify your goal.

· Next year, what achievement from this year will have the most significant impact on your life. Would it get you closest to achieving your goals?

If you’re looking to become healthier, this might be becoming a non-smoker. If you’re looking to change careers, it might be going back to school for more training.

Attention Please

· What takes your full attention while you’re doing it? Where does your passion lie?

Are you consumed by cars? Does being a mechanic sound like something to look into?

· What do you believe is worth doing that other people might not? That’s a question designed to give insight into your personality.

In the 1960s Rosey Grier played pro football for the New York Giants and later for the LA Rams.

He was 6’5” and 300 pounds.

He also spent off field time knitting. It was his passion.

What makes you so passionate that you don’t mind standing alone to do it? What drives you or from what do you take comfort?

How can that be a part of the goal? Or can it become the goal?

2. Translate your goal into a number

Numbers are easier to remember. What number?

For example, your goal is to become an ex-smoker. If you smoke a pack per day at $5 per pack, that’s 5 X 365 or $1,825 spent each year on cigarettes.

That’s a good number

Call it $2,000 by the time you factor in all those trips to the gas station for cigarettes. Does that number make the goal real?

3. Keep your eyes on the prize

Get out a sheet of paper. Write down that $2,000 number in big, bold, colorful numbers.

Use crayon if you like.

Post that number where you can see it. Often.

Learn to rank your goals. By doing this you’ll find it easier to pick the one that means the most to you right now.

Then put your laser like focus on that particular goal until you get to where you want to go.

JohnK 1-1-2024
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.”

~ Elbert Hubbard

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Are You Even Capable of Personal Transformation?

December 25, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

You may have some sort of transformation on the list of changes to make in the New Year. Maybe you’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

Let’s pause for a moment as GenuLines asks if you have what it takes.

Are You Even Capable of Personal Transformation?

People seem to want changes in their lives. They might want a new career.

Or they want to lose weight. Some want to do something different that nobody’s done before.

They want to go through some personal transformation.

But is it even possible for us to transform?

Think about the number of times you’ve made New Year’s resolutions. Did any of them last?

Many people give up because they know it’s an exercise in futility. Then, you have those who try over and over again to lose weight.

They try one diet after another and after a few months gain most of the pounds back.

On the other end of the spectrum are people who have overcome major obstacles. They’ve thrived, often never looking back from their new situations.

Do some of us have different wiring?

Most people are capable of transforming their lives. If that weren’t true, you’d have way fewer success stories in the world.

It depends on how badly people want to make changes. Sometimes, people aren’t ready for a change.

Your environment also plays a huge role in determining success in implementing changes. Being with negative-thinkers who discourage change is going to make succeeding difficult.

If you’re looking to transform, align yourself with people who want to help you succeed.

People are different. Some are naturals at making transformations.

And they don’t need help or encouragement from others.

They have strong wills and keep going until the change becomes part of their lives. Others need more help and encouragement.

Look to the past

Your upbringing could be a factor in how well you adapt to change. Let’s say your parents preferred the status quo.

Your first reaction to change might be hard, at least in the beginning.

Bear in mind, there are plenty of people who break away from the mold of their families. They make changes in spite of their family backgrounds.

Don’t give up. If something doesn’t work out, try something else or look at the situation in a different way.

Learn from your mistakes and failures and continue until you’re where you want to be. Determination and persistence are your biggest allies when making your transformations.

Granted, it’s never easy. If it were, everyone would make the necessary changes and change would not be scary.

Never let anyone stand in the way of something you must do.

JohnK 12-25-2023
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “In order to save myself, I must destroy first the me I was told to be.”

~Anonymous

How Being On Time And Organized Helps You Succeed

December 18, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

How Being On Time And Organized Helps You Succeed

There are a lot of different factors that come into play when it comes to being successful. Today, GenuLines looks at two of them (organization and punctuality)

These can make a huge difference in your day-to-day life.

Think back to some of the most successful people you’ve ever met. Chances are they were good at both of these – organized and on time.

There’s a reason why both of these factors will make such a big difference when it comes to being successful.

Both being on time and organized can help you make the best possible use of your time and energy. When referring to energy, it includes both mental and physical energy.

We have a limited supply of both. Plus, we’re restricted to 24 hours a day.

In other words, both time and energy are limited resources.

Being on time and staying organized help with making the most of those resources. They focus those resources on the things that help you reach the goals that define success.

There are two different ways in which being both on time and organized will help you succeed. Let’s look at both of them.

Then we’ll take a quick look at how to get better at them.

Saving Time

How much time have you wasted this week looking for a misplaced item or file? How about your car keys?

Did you waste time by missing an appointment and then having to wait? Making an effort to be on time and staying organized helps you save precious time and energy.

Being on time is all about time management and awareness. Work will always stretch out into however much time you give it.

Better awareness, time management, and organization will make your work more effective.

Looking Professional

Showing up late for an appointment or interview is bad form. So is poor preparation or having to dig around for a few minutes to find something you need.

This is particularly true when it comes to first impressions.

You want to get the chances you deserve, and people see you as the respected person or expert in your field that you are.

How To Get Better At Both

You now know why it’s important to work on getting organized and being on time. So, let’s look at how you can improve both those skills.

What it comes down to is getting into the habit of being conscious of time. Add to that staying on top of organizational tasks.

Yes, if you’re VERY disorganized, it’ll take some up-front work to clear things up. Once completed though, you have to make a daily effort to put things back in their place and stay organized.

This is true for physical items, digital items, and even thoughts and ideas.

The short answer then is to practice both being on time and staying organized. Work them in to your life every day until they become habits.

JohnK 12-18-2023

chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at”

~Stephen Hawking

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You Can Create Self-Supporting Habits For Success

October 9, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

Your success can be built on a dream. But you’ll need the right tools to do it.

The builders at GenuLines show you how your habits can get the job done.

You Can Create Self-Supporting Habits For Success
Have you ever wondered how successful people get where they are? And often, so young?

Okay, we can’t all be Steve Jobs.

But there is untold potential within you.

You need to learn to create self-supporting habits that will help you achieve success. Your behaviors are determined by your habits, so everything that you’ve achieved so far and everything that you will… is down to your habits.

Self-Supporting Habits For Success:

• Pursue Your Passions

We humans generally seek stability, especially when it comes to a career. But those people who go big are willing to pursue the things that interest them.

People work harder when they love what they’re doing.

• Find A Mentor

Having a mentor is one smart way to steer your way to success. There are different types of people you can turn to for mentorship.

They may be a parent, teacher, or someone within your career. Or a famous person whose books you turn to for advice or guidance. yourself.

What successful people are able to do is learn from the mistakes they make. The latter is powerful, what greater motivation than turning failure around.

• Dreams Become Goals

Yes it’s important for you to pursue your passions. But don’t forget that you can use your dreams to set your goals.

• Make Lists

What good is having goals if you don’t have an action plan to achieve them? The key is breaking your goals down into the steps it will take to achieve them.

Creating processes is the key to creating success.

• Be Health Conscious

This might not seem like something of great importance, but… without your health you are nothing. So, eat the right types of food and be mindful of your portions.

Regular exercise a good night’s sleep are very important, too.

• Be Honest

You may think of successful people as ruthless and maybe even underhanded, but in all honesty… honesty is vital. Show principle in every action,

Be fair (not only with the world, but also with yourself),. This allows you to create a vision for your life that will be consistent with your values and ideals.

Don’t compromise when it comes to integrity,. Don’t sacrifice your peace of mind for anything (or anyone).

Honesty is the key here. And it underscores the rest of the self-supporting habits on your list.

• Self-Discipline

When you come right down to it, the list above is useless without self-discipline. The ability to control yourself is one of the most important qualities that you will develop.

And it’s a habit that goes hand in hand with every success in every aspect of your life.

Each of these habits will help you develop as a person and grow the desired results. The habits that you have as of now are what got you where you are today.

But if you want to keep growing and improving then it’s time to build on those habits. So become more focused and driven.

Your success is in your hands.

JohnK 10-9-2023
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Habit is stronger than reason”

~George Santayana

5 Signs You Need to Improve Your Resilience

October 2, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

Need a little more resilience in your life? It could come in handy during tough times. Today we’re offering you some “tough love.” from GenuLines.

5 Signs You Need to Improve Your Resilience

Successful people are resilient in some shape or form. If not they would never overcome failure.

You might see yourself as resilient, and in many ways, you could be right.

But if the following descriptions fit you, then your resilience may be falling short . Here are five signs that mean you need to improve your resilience.

1. You’re afraid of failure
Failure is a natural part of success. You may fail several times before you succeed in something.

In fact it may even be necessary before you see that success.

Being able to face your failures is a part of being resilient. If you let all your unsuccessful attempts keep you down you may never try again.

Being afraid of failure may be a sign that your resilience is not as strong as you think

2. You let negative thoughts keep you down
Resilience is a sign of mental fortitude. You can survive challenges without pervasive thoughts discouraging you from trying.

Negative thoughts also impact your mental health. And they can lower your perception of self-worth.

If you’re prone to constant negativity you need to work on your positivity. Positive thinking is a tenet of resilience and can help you find success.

3. You don’t learn from your mistakes
Growth is an important factor in resilience. Improving your skills and abilities will lead you to success.

How can you ever grow as a person if you keep making the same mistakes over and over?

Take a clear look at your mistakes. Don’t place blame.

You’ll improve yourself. And, you’ll grow.

Don’t pretend your mistakes never happened or you’ll be unable to avoid them the next time.

4. You lack confidence
Resilient people are confident in their abilities. even without success on the first try. Confidence gives you the willpower to try new and intimidating things.

If you’re too afraid to try, you’ll never succeed.

5. You don’t take responsibility for your failure
It’s easy to place blame on outside factors that you have no control over. You won’t always have power over everything, so you have to take every situation for what it is.

By acknowledging what you can control and change, you take agency in your life. Admit it if something didn’t go right because of something you did.

Don’t always blame others for your mistakes.

Resilience gives you the power to overcome challenges. Without it, you’ll be more prone to give up.

If you find that some of these signs describe you, then you may need to take steps to improve your resilience.

JohnK 10-2-2023
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Fall seven times, stand up eight”

~Japanese Proverb

Finding Success Helps You Build Confidence

September 25, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

You’re expecting great success in whatever you’re doing. But, when it comes to confidence that’s something else again.

Today we look at a GenuLines yardstick to help you measure up.

Finding Success Helps You Build Confidence
We’ve all experienced a time in our lives when our self-esteem was on the skids. The common thread in these experiences is a lack of confidence.

Think about a job you didn’t like. I’m guessing it wasn’t about your lack of knowledge.

A more likely reason is that you didn’t have the confidence in your ability to do the given tasks.

A strong sense of self and self esteem is essential to overcoming adversity. Success in this area builds your self-confidence.

Success Strengthens Your Self-Love
When you reach a goal, you’re proud of your accomplishment. You know your story and you’ve experienced the challenges firsthand.

You’re better able to endure. And this strength fuels your confidence that you’ll do what you intended to do.

Success Makes You Self-Reliant
Let’s use the life versus lemons example. You take lemons and create, say, a profitable lemonade stand.

You understand that you have power and the capability to overcome most anything.

Success Means Taking Risks
Success forces you venture out of your comfort zone. You act on opportunities that you may have passed on before.

Walking into new ventures despite the fears and the unknown requires absolute confidence. You have no idea if you’ll sink or swim.

Yet, taking that first step into the ocean is a brave move.

Failure
Many people shy away from taking on new tasks because they’re afraid of failure. They believe they’re unable to overcome a challenge.

Get into the mindset that no challenge is too difficult to overcome. Over time, this mentality will lead to ultimate self-confidence and power.

The journey of finding success in itself requires confidence. Sure, it’s easy to take what’s given to you, but is that building your inner strength?

Successful people fight for what they have and go out and get what they want. Through your efforts, wins and accomplishments, you develop a heightened sense of awareness.

This will enable you to continue reaching ever higher levels of success.

John K. 9-25/2023
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out”

~ Robert Collier

Fear Setting – How to Remove Your Fear of Failure

July 17, 2023 John Uncategorized No comments

Your fear of failure could be holding you back. So what should you do?

Today GenuLines offers some ideas that turn the tables on fear and make it serve you.

Fear Setting – How to Remove Your Fear of Failure

Many of us have an innate fear of failure. We say that if we let things go wrong, we won’t have the means to carry on.

But real success actually requires failure.

And that’s why the world’s most successful people are actually not at all afraid of failing. They’re quite happy to put themselves out on a limb taking regular risks.

So how do you remove a fear of failure?

What is Fear Setting?

One option is to try fear setting. This is a technique that was first popularized by Tim Ferris in his book The Four Hour Workweek.

The general idea is to ‘set’ your fears in the same way that you would ‘set’ your goals.

This way you turn those abstract and vague fears into things that are more concrete and real. To do this, make a list of those fears and contingencies.

Planning on trying something new? Then write down everything that could go wrong and why you’re afraid of it.

Next, write down all the ways you might deal with those things going wrong. And write down how likely each of those things is to go wrong in the first place.

On the face of it, that might sound like it would make matters worse but in fact the opposite is true. That’s because, writing down your fears and making them ‘real’ often robs them of their power.

More so when you have a plan in place for how you would deal with them. And you realize that they’re actually quite unlikely to be a problem in the first place.

An Example

If you were thinking of finding a new job you might have the following fears:

You will:

*lose your current job and end up with no money
*not enjoy your new job
*end up leaving your family without a steady income

But how likely are each of these things and how could you make them less of a problem? For instance, could you not survive on savings for a little while?

Would you not be able to get help from parents if it came down to it? Couldn’t you look for work without leaving your current job?

And isn’t it quite likely that you’d actually be able to get work back with your old employer if things went wrong?

The fears tend to be somewhat unfounded. Fear setting allows us to see that and as a result makes things a lot less scary.

JohnK 7-17-2023
chiforyourself.com

Overheard: “There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them”

~Andre Gide

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What’s Wrong With Staying In Your Comfort Zone?

Not reaching your goals

Lack of growth

No or lost passion

Feeling left behind

Settling for less

Your self-confidence lags

Your health suffers

You’ll be unprepared for changes

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Do You Believe You Deserve Success?

Know Thyself

UNLIMIT YOURSELF!

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Doing Anything is Easy (Being Good At It Is Something Else)

Anything Goes?

Want to be a novelist?

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How to Find And Begin Your One Goal

Attention Please

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Are You Even Capable of Personal Transformation?

Do some of us have different wiring?

Look to the past

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How Being On Time And Organized Helps You Succeed

Saving Time

Looking Professional

How To Get Better At Both

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• Pursue Your Passions

• Find A Mentor

• Dreams Become Goals

• Make Lists

• Be Health Conscious

• Be Honest

• Self-Discipline

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