Why Growth Is Hard

Today I want to explore with you why growth, meaning your personal growth as a leader or business owner as well as growing your team and growing your business, can feel so hard at times. 

You see, we as human beings are naturally wired to want to stay and feel safe. We typically don’t like to feel uncomfortable and we typically don’t like to get outside of our comfort zone. 

However, all human beings have what I call a 'growth urge'. Meaning the innate or inbuilt urge to want to grow, to want to do better, to want to be better, to want to be more successful, to grow a really profitable team or business etc. - you get me. 

And so, as human beings, we are constantly battling this internal struggle and this internal conflict between wanting to feel comfortable and staying safe versus getting uncomfortable and growing, learning and evolving. 

So, as we go to learn a new skill, as we go to chase new and bigger better clients, as we go to grow our team or grow our business or in general get uncomfortable - we will always meet these parts of our personality that complain to us or hold us back or tell us all the reasons why getting uncomfortable and getting outside of our comfort zone isn’t a good idea. 

So, the reason why growth can feel hard, is because you’re constantly battling this internal dialogue and this internal dynamic between opposing parts of your personality. 

It’s the same for everyone. Everyone who is learning and growing and stepping outside of their comfort zone will be experiencing the same thing. 

However, if you can learn to navigate this internal conflict and become aware of the dialogue that happens within you as you go to step outside of your comfort zone, with awareness comes the ability to make this process so much easier. 

Because a lot of the time we hold ourselves back or don’t take the action because we are unaware of all the internal dialogue is happening within us. 

So, if we can become aware that we have these different parts of our personality that want different things, then we can much more easily navigate the growth process.  We can then actually look forward to getting outside of our comfort zone and learning and growing because we know it’s the path to the success that we are looking for. 

Josh 'Always Growing' Stone

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