![]() ![]() Their first ever conference ‘Just Balance’ will be held on the 23rd September, 2016. L4N UK is a ladies networking group which aims to motivate and encourage its members. What seemed frightening 6 months ago, and unachievable, should now seem (and now back, full circle, to the Great British Bake Off) a piece of cake. If we do just one thing every day that scares us, and we are successful, then imagine how, step by step we will be able to take our businesses and our daily lives to a more fulfilling place. By exercising our right to be brave, we are giving ourselves permission to experiment, to learn, to try, and sometimes to fail, but ultimately to surprise ourselves by what we can achieve. If we allow ourselves to stay within our comfort zone, we will never know the exhilaration of over-achievement. The majority of us will not take to the world’s political stage, nor find ourselves on a podium addressing a crowd, but we do have the opportunity to push ourselves and our thinking on a daily basis. It would be impossible to achieve all that without a daily dose of bravery, so that’s really where the need to do one scary thing a day comes from. In 1999, she was ranked as ninth in Gallup’s list of most widely admired people of the 20th Century. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conference, write a syndicated newspaper column and speak at a national convention. She was outspoken, controversial, and a passionate campaigner for racial equality and women’s rights. So why on earth did Anna Eleanor Roosevelt advocate the one-a-day-scary-thing? She hasn’t gone down in history as an adrenaline junkie, but rather as an American politician, diplomat and activist, and, at the time of her death, “one of the most esteemed women in the world”. A place where we can exist relatively stress free in an unchallenging world. The Victoria sponge in a land of pistachio and rose macaroons. If 14.5 million of us sat down to watch the Great British Bake Off finale, then why do we still feel accomplished about turning out our tried and tested Victoria sponge cakes?Ĭomfort zones are exactly that. The average Brit has a recipe repertoire of 4.5 dishes – disturbingly limited given the quantity of recipe books available and our collective love for master chefs. We know what foods we like, what drinks we can drink with impunity, and which ones we have to avoid before memories of teenage experimentation come back to haunt us. We may not have approached the time when we would admit to having a favourite chair, but we probably do favour a particular side of the dining table, a preferred spot on the sofa, and like our pillows to be a certain height and width. Many people have a comfort zone which is cosily small. I’m assuming she isn’t talking about looking at the magnifying side of your vanity mirror, first thing in the morning – although, in my case, it is increasingly terrifying, but more about pushing out of your comfort zone as a matter of form. This quote from the longest-serving First Lady of the United States (b.1894 – d.1962) appeals to me. “Do one thing every day that scares you.”
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