Magic beyond Comfort Zone!

The logo depicts that in life one always reaches a level of stagnation while engaged in a life activity which could lead to despair and frustration. We must start a new activity before such stagnation could happen and thus maintain a level of excitement in life  . And this has to be an ongoing process. The two branches show that this concept of starting new activity needs to be done on two levels or two domains. Thus eliminating any chance of stagnation and keeping an option for life. This is the key to evolution in one’s life. This logo needs to act as a magic wand to lead one’s life.

Ramesh, Rajeshri

This blog is for those who want to have a life that promises ongoing evolution for self and those connected. And enjoy the magic of life boundlessly.

Our love of comfort is frequently the enemy of evolving. Comfort zone easily leads to stagnation and thus kills any chance of evolution.

We two, co-authors of this blog, have discarded our comfort zones often and have joined hands to create this blog and invite more individuals who accept this concept and share to enjoy the magic.

As a startup we have identified two activities which can help individuals to leave comfort zone, lead to evolution and remove any possibility of stagnation and enjoy life boundary less.

1. Change or disrupt own thought process: In other words change your thinking pattern. Thinking is by habit and repeat thoughts create a habit! So if you want to think not by habit change the thinking pattern. Easy said than done. At the root of thinking is sensing. We use our senses to think. We make sense of things around by a thought associated with sensing .For example seeing assists us in sense making. We see things around and associate a reality with those visuals. We do this by habit and that is pattern of thinking. So reality is by pattern.   Magic is beyond reality. So we must change pattern of thinking. Humans think by asking questions on sensing the things around. We routinely resort to simple questions. Like “how? “ or “what?” when we sense . That is our pattern. But train yourself to ask “How else?” or What else? or What could be? And you sense different visual and different possibilities. Magic is in possibilities!
2. Develop a new skill: When was the last time, you tried something for the first time? And probably the answer would be never. We as human beings put in least effort to learn new things. If you want to genuinely evolve out of your comfort zone and feel the magic beyond it one of the best ways of doing it is developing or learning a new skill. Find your niche, but do not settle down in it, explore skills that you have just heard about or have a very sketchy idea about it. Having saying this, the new skill that you develop need not be related to your field. It can be from an unrelated métier. This would help you to expand your scope, understand new aspects and have experience things before people of your genre have witnessed it. Also new and dynamic skills are amazing to talk about and people with such attributes are definitely given priority and importance over others. So go ahead learn a new skill and feel the magic within and around. Aura

As we mention above, our ideas about starting this blog “ magic beyond one’s comfort zone”,  we would love to hear your views on the same. Our audience would include people who have practiced these two activities in the past and probably they can share their experience on the same. Moreover, there may be audience who are in their comfort zone and want to come out of it, so probably this could act as a motivational blog for them. Be it an encouragement or a platform to share your ideas, our basic motto is to get you out of your comfort zone and create a magical aura around yourself. Remember guys, “ For something magical and majestic to happen, one has to think beyond limits and act beyond boundaries” because both thoughts and actions are limitless and boundary less. It is we who draw lines for them and perform our tasks within those lines and miss the magic. Go ahead, change that thought process and sense the magic begin……..!!!!!!!

 FEEL MAGICAL……!!!!!!

Eight thinking skills for the emerging business scenarios.

This schematic depicts how effective people would use eight  thinking skills to attain own vision and dreams.

At the bottom is Bottom-Line thinking and the top  is Thinking of Big Picture. One uses the Big picture thinking to visualize the future for or dream what could be the future state -for self or for an organization . Bottom line thinking gives one a base and clarity for decision making.

The diagram suggests iteration till you succeed in attaining a vision or dream. A new dream emerges as a big picture thinking -the earlier dream becoming base and the iteration continues.

Look at the diagram as a  big pot and the eight skills need to be churned  Link Bottom line thinking to Big picture thinking all the while through the six skills making up walls of the big pot .

Realizing Dreams

ASK

Realizing your dream is ASK

A: Attitude that is positive and inclined to ask questions. Attitude leads to motivation each time you find options or opportunities thru questioning. Motivation results into initiatives to take up improvements.

S: Skills you acquire as a lifelong process encouraged or prompted by your questions. Acquiring skills is developing own competencies to improve continually to attain your next dream.

K: Knowledge is what you update again lifelong to use skills appropriately for the opportunities you visualize. Attitude, skills and knowledge create a personality to inspire-you and others to improve.

Initiatives, Inspiration and Improvement enable you to attain dreams. Dreams must keep changing as the environment around you changes.

The central idea is that one must ASK questions and be inquisitive to realize dreams. Ask questions to be very clear and specific on what you want to attain as dream. The questions most beneficial are:

• Why? and Why not?
• What? What if? and What else?
• How else? and How much?
  

The answers will give you purpose, perspective, practices, possibilities and proportions leading to options in attaining a dream. Options are opportunities.Use “ASK” again to realize these options and evolve.

ASK is an ongoing process and helps you in adapting and evolving

in time and space.