{"id":1888,"date":"2014-03-02T16:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2014-03-02T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T21:29:52","slug":"three-minute-leadership-life-begins-where-your-comfort-zone-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2014\/03\/three-minute-leadership-life-begins-where-your-comfort-zone-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Life Begins Where Your Comfort Zone Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">In his book, <i>A Comfortable Situation<\/i>, Kip Davis writes: &#8220;When we become comfortable, do you know what happens around us? Absolutely nothing. Each day becomes just like the one before. We do what we have always done, therefore we get what we have always gotten.&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">It is seducing and easy to live in a comfort zone. It is the known, the obvious, the protected, the unchallenging, the safe and no failure. It is a stagnant world, a jail that controls us more than we do ourselves. Thomas Edison, inventor, said of it: &#8220;We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.&#8221; <\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">Great leaders embrace the words of author, Neale Donald Walsch: \u201cLife begins at the end of your comfort zone.\u201d Live life to its fullest, a remember Max DePree\u2019s words: \u201cWe cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.\u201d Be more than you ever dreamed you could be\u2026 and more\u2026 so much more.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">Have a beautiful day and an awesome week!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;font-size: small\">Mike<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1480\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-188x188.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-188x188.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning \u00a0 In his book, A Comfortable Situation, Kip Davis writes: &#8220;When we become comfortable, do you know what happens&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}