Being comfortable sounds nice, right? We all like our comforts: comfort foods, a favorite blanket, or a special place we like to go to. However, in the world of work, being comfortable is not a good thing.
Why?
If you’re comfortable, you’re likely stopped:
- Challenging yourself and those around you to be better
- Opening your mind to new ideas and solutions
- Accepting decisions that were previously made without understanding why
- Looking objectively at things like the “health” of your business right now
- Challenging group decision making
Being continually dissatisfied (but always with a positive attitude) is a great way to overcome being comfortable. Being dissatisfied does not mean being pessimistic. Rather, it means always looking at each and every decision you are making, or the decisions those around you are making, and truly asking yourself:
“Is this truly the best decision for our business?”
If you are truly committed to continuous improvement at work, you’ll notice you’re continually dissatisfied. It’s a simple case of “what you focus on you find.” If you focus on always making things better, you’ll always find things to make better!
It’s not easy to be continually dissatisfied. But remember, work that matters is hard. So, embrace the fact that by being dissatisfied, you are making today better than yesterday. Then, go find those things that need to be improved (even if they were decisions you made in the past) and improve them!