Comfort or Thriving

Wow been a long time since I have written on my blog.

But good to be back.

Wanted to to share some important development that a lot of you might relate to.

In the distribution business I am apart of we had some really good success in the last two years even in the midst of all that has been going on in the economy.
In truth if the business stayed the same as it has been for the last two years then we are in a comfortable place (Comfort zone). But not sure if you are anything like me I was getting bored.
The reason being I felt like that I had exhausted my challenges and I was just through the motion, to the point I should do what I needed to be done with my eyes closed and without having to really engage my mind. I was also bored of speaking about last year successes

To some this might seem cool but I am of the mindset that if your not going forward your going backwards. No one person, or business standstill it is either moving forwards or backwards and I felt that if I didn't change something soon I and the business would begin to go backwards.
I remember reading Steve Jobs autobiography and he stated "If you don't cannibalism yourself some one will come and eat you instead". To give a example of what he meant was by creating the laptop it was eating at sales of the PC, creating the IPAD was eating sales of the laptop. What Steve understood if he didn't continue to move the business forward and stood still another company would eat them up.

Based on this I decided that we needed to launch a new division (NEW CHALLENGE / MOVING FORWARD). So I presented the idea to management and they agreed. We have just employed a new person who will begin with us in September to help the dream become a reality. BUT in the midst of this comes the FEAR. What if this fails and the idea does not work. The truth is if it does not work we would have to make people redundant which believe me having to do it in the past is not a nice feeling. Having that thought in the back of the mind for me makes me work harder to make it work and realise the dream of building a hugely successful and profitable (And enjoyable)

I will share more over the months how we get on. I can tell you know it will not be easy, but when it works it going to be amazing to look back and see what could be do.

So the question is 'are you in a comfort zone or thriving'?

A saying that I love from Zig Ziglar "See you at the top"