Say Goodbye to your Comfort Zone

An inspirational piece from our Digital Designer, Byron.

The Comfort Zone

The hardest thing to acknowledge, is that you have a set of behaviours that you gravitate towards. You have a level of understanding or confidence with what you know, not what you don’t (after all ignorance is bliss). Rather than settling for what you know to be ‘OK’ or ‘fine’, acknowledge things that bug, annoy and interest you. Become aware of what you see, taste, hear and do. Suddenly you will find you have a sizeable to-do list. Change happens when you’re trying to solve a problem.

Testing the Water (Do It Yourself)

Remember that amazing sourdough bread that you had with breakfast the other morning? Find out what the recipe is, make a batch. If it’s not quite as good, try again, and adjust the ingredients slightly. Keep doing it until you can consistently make great tasting bread. Then try and see if there is a way of improving it, or modifying it, to suit your tastes. Share it with your friends and family. If someone is intolerant to gluten, try and find a way to make a gluten-free version. It’s easy to stay motivated with things you enjoy, and that are relatively straight forward to do. Innovation occurs when new problems present themselves.

Jumping into the Deep End, Feet First

Sometimes making a dramatic change can be just what the doctor ordered. There is nothing like trying something new, eating something exotic or experiencing something for the first time. Excitement, fear of the unknown, and anticipation are great motivators and can help you achieve wonderful things. We have an amazing capacity to learn, but as we get older, our assumptions start to guide our behaviour more than new experiences, which may be detrimental to making positive changes. Don’t dismiss something new, if you have had a negative experience of something similar. You could be pleasantly surprised by what you find.

Routinely Break your Routine

Go to the coffee shop across the street, order the guest blend, try filtered and really get to know the full scope of what’s on offer. You will then be able to make an informed decision based on your personal experience, not what you perceive the experience to be. You will know that a certain Barista at the coffee shop, at the end of your road, on a Wednesday will more than likely make the perfect flat white for your caffeine craving, as opposed to settling for the inexperienced one, across the road, that will burn the milk and leave the espresso so long that it becomes bitter. Remember there is always more than one way of doing something!

In with the Old, Out with the New

We all need to start somewhere, so it is important to acknowledge that pre-existing practices and solutions exist because once upon a time, they too were created to solve a problem. The context in which the problem is trying to be solved may be different, but essentially the problem remains the same. Understanding how others identified the solutions that they found, will help inform the process you go through to reach your own conclusion. By standing on the shoulders of giants, we may see new directions to take.

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