Out of The Comfort Zone

Being comfortable is one of the best feelings in life. However, in business, comfort may be your enemy. While doing one assignment for a class a came across a great article that presented the idea of working out of our comfort zone.

The article provided me with guidelines of how to work out of my comfort zone when it comes to networking. We have to open our eyes and minds  to be more receptive to ideas that may be different than ours. By doing this we will enrich our work and find new approaches to problems. It is easy to get along with people who are similar to us. But the real challenge comes when we have to interact with those that do not think like us. This is not necessary bad, we have to remember that diversification will always reduce risk.

I will apply this guidelines to my networking meetings from now on. I will try to interact with people that shared a complete different point of view from mine to enrich my own knowledge. It may be hard at the beginning but it is worth the try.