How can you shift your mindset to welcome discomfort as growth?
Thank you for making me uncomfortable.”
This was a comment from one of my clients this week. I paused for a second before responding with a grin and, “That’s what I promised!”
As this client and I originally contracted, he agreed that discomfort equals growth. It means answering the tough questions he usually avoids. It means powering through his knee-jerk response of, “I don’t know” and digging into the root of an issue. It means arriving at answers that, more often than not, are hard but 100% right. An added bonus? It has meant an increased level of confidence in his own intuition and leadership.
Pretty cool, right?
Growth and development are, by necessity, intimate partners. We shouldn’t aspire to stop feeling awkward once we grow older in age and more experienced in life. Why not? Because that’s called stagnation. The discomfort – and exhilaration – of change is growth.
When was the last time you were uncomfortable?
How did you react?
How might you respond differently in the future?
