Do you want to jump out of bed every morning excited to tackle the day ahead? Would you like to embrace adventure and explore new opportunities? Do you want to find more balance and less insanity in your career and life? There’s one thing you must do: step out of your comfort zone. Communications consultant and founder of the Get Gutsy blog, Jessica Lawlor, believes that getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is the key to reaching your goals, discovering your potential and living a life that makes you truly happy. In this session, she shared stories, tricks and tools for for finding more balance and purpose in your career and life. Learn more about Jessica Lawlor and stepping outside your comfort zone at JessicaLawlor.com.

1. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
and into a More Balanced,
Purposeful Career & Life
Jessica Lawlor
@jesslaw

4. A Little About Me
● Background in public relations- six years in healthcare
& tourism industries
● Blogging -----> Freelancing
● Quit job in December
● Started business!
○ Communications consulting

6. Enough about me...let’s
talk about you

7. How do you FEEL on a
daily basis?

9. How would you LIKE to
feel on a daily basis?

11. Getting gutsy means stepping
outside your comfort zone to live
a life that makes you truly happy.

13. Let’s Get
Science-y

14. A study in 1908 said that
relative comfort created a
steady level of
performance.

15. Source: https://open.buffer.com/uncomfortable/
Searching
for “Optimal
Anxiety”

16. So, let me ask you a
few questions….

17. ● Do you want to be more productive?
● Do you want to be able to deal with
change in a better way?
● Do you want to be more creative?
Source: http://lifehacker.com/the-science-of-breaking-out-of-your-comfort-zone-and-w-656426705

18. Scientifically, stepping outside your
comfort zone...
● Makes you more productive.
● Makes it easier to deal with new & unexpected
changes.
● Makes it easier to push boundaries in the future.
● Makes it easier to brainstorm & harness
Source: http://lifehacker.com/the-science-of-breaking-out-of-your-comfort-zone-and-w-656426705

19. 5 things you need to know about
stepping outside your comfort
zone...

20. 1.It means getting
uncomfortable.

21. 2. It doesn’t have to mean
doing something crazy.

23. 3. You need support.

24. 4. You have to get out of
your own way.

26. 5. It’s not easy.

27. What might stepping
outside your comfort zone
look like for you?

29. 10 Tips for
Stepping Outside
Your Comfort Zone

30. 1.Be present.

32. 2. Big goals, small steps.
(Work backwards)

34. 3. Develop a beginner’s
mindset.

35. 4. Practice energy
management.

36. ● Experiment to discover the times you’re
most productive.
● Accept that you only have so much energy in
a given day.
● Be strict with your schedule.
Energy Management Tips

37. 5. Create and maintain
habits.

38. How long do you think it
takes to form a habit?

39. It actually takes 66 days to
form a habit...keep going.

40. 6. SAY NO.
(Create a reverse to-do list)

42. 7. Find someone to hold
you accountable.

43. ● Accountability buddy
● Mastermind group

44. 8. Let go of what no longer
serves you.

45. I’m letting go of...
● Doing things the way they’ve always been
done.
● Feeling like I need to follow a certain path
just because that’s what’s expected of me.
● Overscheduling myself.
● Being a slave to my inbox.

46. 9. Trust your instincts and
LISTEN.

47. 10. Celebrate your wins.

48. Take in the view...

49. Here’s the hard truth...

51. Further Resources & Reading
Big Goals, Small Steps: http://jessicalawlor.com/2015/05/make-your-goals-a-reality/
Energy Management: http://jessicalawlor.com/2014/04/energy-management/
Forming Habits: http://jessicalawlor.com/2013/10/practice-makes-permanent/
Reverse To-Do List: http://jessicalawlor.com/2015/02/reverse-to-do-list/
Instincts and Listening: http://jessicalawlor.com/2016/08/okay-universe/
Beginner’s Mindset: http://jessicalawlor.com/2016/07/the-beauty-of-being-a-beginner/
Celebrating Wins: http://jessicalawlor.com/2016/06/why-dont-we-celebrate-our-wins/
Accountability: http://jessicalawlor.com/2015/10/accountability-arrangement/
Letting Go: http://jessicalawlor.com/2014/04/letting-go/
Present Moment: http://jessicalawlor.com/2015/06/welcome-the-present-moment/

52. Questions?
jessica@jessicalawlor.com
http://jessicalawlor.com
@jesslaw