Hey guys! Are you feeling that your current job sucks and a change of job would do you good?

Or maybe, you are feeling that, in your current job, the amount of hard work you are putting in, if devoted to your own venture would give you greater returns? Or maybe the HR is telling you, your next growth would come only when you shift from marketing to purchase. You have always been a marketing guy and don’t know the P of purchase! Or you feel you have a great product or app or maybe a great idea and that you would like to become an entrepreneur. All the above basically involve you coming out of your comfort zone and entering the zone of uncertainty.

Your mom or wife would probably be telling you: stay in the comfort zone. The basic needs are being met, why even venture out. And there would be another set of people, including the little voice in your head, pestering you “ atta boy, jump”

But as the mountain dew advertisement says “dar sabhi ko lagta hai”. Change is difficult and it’s scary!

It’s built into our cellular structure deeply embedded “ avoid anxiety, tread the familiar”. Its what made the human species survive “ it is not the fittest that survived but the one who sensed danger and avoided it.” But human race wouldn’t have progressed had it remained in its risk avoidance mode. Growth, development, new discoveries, progress, change in the plans of Lord Rama from vanvas to Ravan badh came only when Sitaji stepped out of the Laxman Rekha. Ravan abducted Sitaji and similarly, unforeseen circumstances can lead to failure when you step out of your comfort zone. Within the Laxman Rekha you are in control and you feel safe. Age khai hai gala sukhta hai. So stay where you are. But, what’s wrong with that approach? Problem is, over period of time, in a no-stress situation, your performance starts deteriorating. Personality disorder creeps in. Boredom sets in and research has shown that, maybe, probably even our brain shrinks.

I don’t think any one of us would want that.

As much as staying in the safe zone is part of our cellular structure, achieving something more than what you are today is also in our nature and part of our evolution. Just a little stimulus and the urge to move out of the safe zone gets triggered.

Now your brain can either label that stimulus as good or bad. If the brain labels the stimulus as bad then lack of self-confidence, affected by others opinion, finding excuses become the dominant behaviour and you get over whelmed. But if you have to kill the demons and rakhshasas, then train your brain to label the stimulus as good stimulus. Is it possible? Yes, it is possible and this is how:

• Paint the goal in your mind of the positive consequence of taking that jump. When you do that, you develop positive stress also called eu stress which helps you to think of solutions. This EU STRESS help you to deal with Kumbkarna and inderjeet , acquire new skills or astras and bring them in your own ramayan.

• Build a support system of your friends, relatives, clients, bankers – your risk so, you know who should be your Hanuman, Bali, Jamvant, Sugrib and Angad among the banar sena.

• Document both 1 and 2, otherwise, it will be all wishy washy and when things don’t work out, which is a distinct possibility, and time comes to find solutions, all the plans in your head would evaporate. But once documented, you would have already anticipated and analysed the risks.

At the end: darr apka hai, gala apka hi sukhega, mountain dew to apko hi peena hai aur akhir mein, jump to apko hi lagana hai. Live your dream, realise yiour aspirations, create more dreams to achieve.