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Success Tip From Jack Canfield via Coach Kathy Santini
By arbutuscoaching | December 15, 2009
I had the great pleasure recently of listening to Jack Canfield, best selling New York Times author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series talk at a speakers’ boot camp I attended in Los Angeles.
When Jack Canfield talks, I’m all ears. Why? Because for years he’s been a student of success, worked with W. Clement Stone, has built a successful speaking, writing and coaching business and is the author of another bestselling book, called The Successful Principles.
In future blogs, I’ll outline more of Jack’s pearls, boy that man can pack a lot of incredibly valuable information into a one-hour presentation.
One of the biggest takeaways was his statement that everything we want is just outside of our comfort zone. That’s so true, isn’t it? What’s also true is that most of us don’t want to feel uncomfortable, so we stay inside that zone. And that doesn’t serve us well in the long run.
Remember back to when you were 12 months old and just learning to walk? What if you hadn’t liked the fact that when you let go of the coffee table and tried to walk to your Mom, you fell down after taking your first shaky step? If you hadn’t gotten over feeling uncomfortable, your parents would still be lugging you around in a car seat, which is awfully hard on your back when your child is 32 and weighs 160 pounds.
The point is this. For very few of us – think Hubbel Gardner in The Way We Were –things come easily and we don’t need to leave our comfort zone. Not so much for the rest of us. If you want to be successful, you have to allow yourself to feel uncomfortable, with the knowledge that whatever you’re doing will become easier over time.
As Jane Fonda was fond of saying, no pain, no gain. Or as the Nike ad says, “Just do it.”
Kathy SantiniArbutus Coaching – Growing People and Possibilities
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Kathy@ArbutusCoaching.com
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