Don’t Get Comfortable | Jack Welch's Advice on Growth and Entrepreneurship | #Entspresso

Good morning, Believe Nation! Today's message is: Don't get comfortable. Over to you, Jack Welch.

If you're sitting there comfortable in what you're doing, you can be sure with your nice awards of number one here, number one here, number one The zag hat and number one, this one, number one, that one. Somebody's out there waiting to pluck you and you can't get comfortable. And at that rate of change, if you start seeing stuff, you gotta move. So what do you think?

I love this. I think it's really great to always challenge yourself. And like, for example, I love to take dance classes and I like to take new dance classes that challenge where I'm at, not just do the ones that are comfortable. I love to do those too because they're fun, but I also want to do ones that are really hard and Sometimes I go to the end of class feeling like I sucked, but it's good because I challenged myself, right? So don't get comfortable. Keep improving yourself.

Yeah, I think as human beings we like learning, we like growth, and the minute you stop learning and stop growing as a person, you lose happiness. And I think it happens to a lot of entrepreneurs. It's super common. Once you've gotten started in business, and then at the start you're all excited, you got tons of ideas, maybe you're bringing on some customers, and then at some point you just fall into the pattern of doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, and you got uncomfortable, and it gets boring, and you need to continue to challenge yourself to do something new and exciting and scary. And I know it's especially hard, I think, for entrepreneurs because we don't have a boss. There's nobody pushing us to go say, "Hey, I believe in you. I think you can go be a public speaker. I think you can go create this new product." You're pushing yourself, and when you do that, you tend not to push yourself as far as somebody else could push you. And so I think that holds a lot of entrepreneurs back, where you do— we do what we're comfortable with, we do what we know, and then we just fall into this habit for the rest of our lives. Where you want to make sure you have resources, people, ideas that shake you out of your comfort zone, out of your habit, to do something a little bit scary every now and then.

I agree. Do things that you would tell your friends to do. If you would tell your friends to try something new, then you should do it too.

I like it. I like it. Good advice.

The question of the day today is: When was the last time you tried something new and challenged yourself?

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