Daily Inspiration: “Your comfort zone will quickly become uncomfortable if you don’t align to faster change!”

All of this came about in a time span of less than 15 years. One day, a market exists – and then, it does not.

How can you possibly have a comfort zone with your business strategy when products appear and disappear at a blistering pace? How can you have a comfort zone with the skills that you have when those very skills are becoming irrelevant and out of date almost overnight? How can you be happy with the current customer and market dynamics when Amazon continues to challenge every single strategy you might ever pursue?

How can you even have a comfort zone when the actual longevity of that zone becomes shorter and shorter, each and every moment?

Abandon any sense of comfort – innovate from your discomfort instead. Don’t become complacent – be relentlessly vigilant. A pretext of invisibility should instead be a mindset of continual reinvention.

One of my main tag lines on stage – and the title of one of my books – is that the ‘future belongs to those who are fast.’ If that is the reality, then the very idea of a comfort zone is out of date.

Some months back I wrote this: “Find the thing that makes you the most uncomfortable. Now, do that thing!”

And previous to that, I wrote: “Get comfortable with the uncomfortable, familiar with the unfamiliar, decisive with the indecisive, active with the inactive, and bold with the timid. These are not normal times – step out of your zone, and with both eyes open, jump into the unknown!”