How to Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone - for Virtual Assistants

Your comfort zone is comfortable, but you aren't moving when you stay in your comfort zone. Your Virtual Assistant business can not grow when you stay comfortable.

Doing the same thing every day yields the same results.

So if you aren't happy with your results right now, you need to change what you do.

Building new paths will take you to where you have not been before. Even if it's uncomfortable, you know are growing.

How to get out of your comfort zone?

We don't like feeling uncomfortable, but we can recognize that when that feeling hits, it is time to get out of it.

Without any action, you won't get what you want.

Anything you are doing now in your VA business, maybe you weren't that great at it. But with practice you got better, more efficient, more proficient.

What to do to get out of your comfort zone.

Know where you want to go. Be definitive about that. How can you go somewhere if you aren't sure where that is?

Know what you need to get there. If you haven't been there, it can be challenging to figure it out. Hint: Google is your friend. Google your question!

Have a plan. Create your plan and make sure that you have an idea of what steps you need to take to get there. What is your timeline? How can you fit doing it into your schedule? Hint: make your action steps small enough to be able to do a little bit every day.

Get support to help you start moving. We aren't meant to do it all ourselves. Even if we are support professionals, we need to ask others to help us when we need it to. Don't get stuck in a research phase.

Take a step, even when it's hard. Daily action steps really help with this.

Here are some tips that can help you get moving:

Believe in yourself, and get others to support you help you. You have to believe that you can do what you want to do, even if you're not quite sure how. Then you can tell others who will also believe in you. But you have to believe in you first!

Change your daily routine. What you are doing now that is getting you the results that you don't want is not working. it's time to change it up.

Learn what you don't know. Get out of research phase and learn the bits that will move you forward.

Help people every day. It's our job to support them, but we need to reframe making sales as simply helping people. When you just look for the people that you can help, the sale will follow. You don't need to sell anyone something they don't need.

Face your fears. Do things that you don't do well or don't like – but get help with it. Everything we don't like to do, someone else loves to do. So line that up.

Get yourself out there. If you are struggling with clients that are not ideal, you should be focusing completely on finding better clients. Get in front of great clients.

Take daily actions to help you move forward one step at a time. Practice makes perfect.

What are you afraid of?

Identify what is the scary thing – and expand on it. When you dive deeper into it, you can help solve it and move through it.

If you don't like to walk up to someone and introduce yourself, why is that?

Are you afraid of saying the wrong thing? You think you don't know what to say? You don't like the sound of your voice? You don't like how how you look?

How can you change those things so that they don't make you afraid anymore?

What is the worst thing that can happen? You get the client or you don't. But right now you don't have the client either. So if that's the worst thing that can happen, it already has. We can only move up.

What don't you like?

What do you do really well? Something you don't even think about and people comment that you do really well. Why do you do that well? How did you get good at it? How can you do the same thing for what it is that you fear?

Just think about it: What is the worst thing that can happen? What is the best thing that can happen?

When you start to walk that path, you may have to push, but it will end up pulling you when you start to move. You will get momentum. And it's so cool! The better you get at something, the more confident you feel. And it comes through in your voice, your demeanor, and your conversations with potential clients.

I bet what is weighing you down is the anxiety that we described above. It's not the actual action – it's the uncertainty.

Lastly, it is essential to put yourself around people who are doing what you want to do, and who are working towards it. The support is exceptional and worth its weight in gold. Ask questions to help yourself grow.

Need Some Help?

If I can help you get out of your comfort zone, reach out to me at tracey@yourvamentor.com. I've helped hundreds of VAs through their challenges and got them on their way to the next thing. I'd love to do the same for you. I do private coaching, and registration for my new mastermind group The Virtual Circle is open now. Maybe one of those is right for you!

That's all I've got for you this week, thanks for tuning in to learn to become a ridiculously good Virtual Assistant.