I just left a comment over at the Small Biz Bee‘s blog, where they said the only piece of advice a business owner may ever need is this:
“Keep doing what you’ve always done and you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.”
In the interest of multitasking my time and content, I’m sharing my comment here:
Thanks for the post. You know, I was just talking to my good friend Lisa Steadman (an amazing author, relationship coach, and solo-preneur in her own right), and we were talking about the comfort zone thing. Lisa and I realized we both “suffer” from a split personality issue that many entrepreneurs likely share. It’s a battle between our BOLD, FEARLESS selves and that squeamish, sulking, other self.
Seems like whenever the cranky, complacent one looks the other way, the BOLD, FEARLESS personality makes all these plans, promises, and proclaimations. They’re all super ambitious, scary, and completely unreasonable to a normal person.
Then that comparatively lazy, ambivilant personality realizes what the other has done, and is forced to step up and fulfill the plans and promises, despite a raging resistence to the whole darn matter.
It’s a constant inner battle between these two personalities — the one who’d be fine doing what she’s always done, and the one who absolutely hails the message you write in your blog post.
The ultimate battle cry from that incorrigible BOLD, FEARLESS persona:
“REACH! GROW! LEAP! TAKE CHANCES! FAIL, FAIL, AND TRY AGAIN! EXPERIMENT! And most importantly…GET OUT OF THAT DANG COMFORT ZONE!!!”
Sometimes she’s exausting, but for the most part, Lisa and I agreed we’re VERY lucky to have her on our team, or we’d never get anywhere.
May you, too, be *blessed* with a similar split personality disorder that shoves you out of your comfort zone and into a fuller, richer, more inspired life. 
