Summary: <br> <br> <a href="http://brianjpombo.com/using-discomfort-to-your-advantage/"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="http://DreamBizChat.com">h</a><a href="http://DreamBizChat.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ttp://DreamBizChat.com</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Using discomfort to your advantage. That’s tonight’s topic. <br> <br> <br> <br> Welcome back to the Orange Office, I’m Brian Pombo. We’re here in Grants Pass, Oregon. It is a gorgeous summer night. I’m really enjoying it. <br> <br> <br> <br> It’s a bit too nice actually. It reminds me of one of my favorite places in the world. If I had to live anywhere in the world, it would be Maui, Hawaii. I would totally live on the island of Maui. <br> <br> <br> <br> But if I think hard enough about it, I’ll realize that I could have a place in Maui and I can vacation there and enjoy myself, but I don’t think I can live there long term. <br> <br> <br> <br> And the main reason why is because if I get too comfortable, all my creativity has gone. Every drive that I have to be able to move forward and do something different in my life drains out of my body and I bet you’re the same way and everyone has different things that kind of puts them in that comfort zone, but you have to be really careful about it.<br> <br> <br> <br> Really careful. <br> <br> <br> <br> I’m going to give you a great example because I think it ties back to it, and this was last night, we talked about, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. That’s the name of the show. Jerry Seinfeld show on Netflix. And he just had this episode with Eddie Murphy in it. <br> <br> <br> <br> So I brought up a point yesterday. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://brianjpombo.com/personality-marketing-right-for-you/" target="_blank">Go back and watch that</a>. <br> <br> <br> <br> Today there’s another point that they brought up Eddie Murphy and Jerry Seinfeld talking back and forth about being on stage and how when they did their worse, when they were the most confident and most comfortable. When they just went up there and they didn’t care what happened. That’s actually when they bombed. That’s actually when they didn’t do well. I think this goes across the board. <br> <br> <br> <br> They said that the nervousness, just even just a little bit of nervousness helped keep them on their toes when they were on stage and made sure they performed to their highest level.<br> <br> <br> <br> I think this is true across the board. It’s taken me a long time to come to this view. I always knew that getting caught up in your comfort zone was a bad thing and could completely zap you have all your energy and ability to do anything decent. <br> <br> <br> <br> But when it comes to creativity, a night like tonight, nice warm night where I could just hang out on a hammock outside, it is so demotivating. I didn’t want to come back to the office. I had to go back home, put my kids to bed, everything else. <br> <br> <br> <br> And I have a late night planned up for myself cause we’ve got a lot of things coming forward that I’ll be telling you more about in the future. But I didn’t want to come back because the whole weather pattern put me in a frame of mind of just giving in, just relaxing and just ease off to sleep.<br> <br> <br> <br> Comfort’s great for what it is, but don’t get caught up in it and realize that having a little bit of discomfort, a little bit of hunger makes a huge difference to your creativity. <br> <br> <br> <br> Sometimes a little bit extra, a little bit of extra attention, a little bit of extra nervousness,
