A Little Pain Can Help You Grow – 3 Steps to Make it Worth Your While

Learning can sometimes be a bit painful. Often you have to stretch yourself beyond your comfort zone to improve. Areas in which you feel somewhat out of control and challenged are the areas in which you have an opportunity to expand your horizons and experience something entirely new and exciting.

It is the same when you are trying out a new behavior at work. You have learned some new skills but they are not easy to apply. In fact, it takes longer to do it the new way…at least at first.


Rarely are the advantages of the new way of doing things obvious at first. This is what the “learning curve” is all about. It will be easier if you:

1.     Are clear about the benefits of applying the new behavior
2.     Set up a realistic plan to take one small step at a time
3.     Get immediate and consistent feedback from a trusted source on your progress