About
Welcome to Grow Your Comfort Zone (gYOURcz), a starting place for people who are looking to do one thing every day to grow their comfort zone.
I’m happy you’ve found it.
This page includes more detail about the Grow Your Comfort Zone site, myself, and a list of Frequently Asked Questions
Topics I write on
- Life (with a focus on Personal & Professional Development)
- Work (with a focus on Entre/Intra/Micropreneurship)
Primary Theme
Growing Your Comfort Zone (gYOURcz)
The theme isn’t to reinvent yourself or find a “new” you – I like the current you!
The focus here is to do small things each and every day to move us towards where we want to be.
Our comfort zone is our most productive zone – where we work the best, where we’re the most focused.
So this isn’t about bungee jumping or doing “extreme” things?
No, not unless that’s what you’re into.
The focus here is taking enjoyment in small, meaningful improvements towards your goal.
Daily Reminder
In order to track my progress, and document my own growth, I’ve set up a daily reminder.
You can join at twitter.com/gYOURcz
On Twitter, once per day the account @gYOURcz asks the question “wdy #gYOURcz YY/MM/DD” (short for “where did you grow YOUR comfort zone (with the date)).
I then reply back with my personal Twitter account of what it is I’ve done that day.
Why the Daily Reminder?
I have determined that in order for me to succeed personally, I need to be accountable to myself by growing my comfort zone.
As well, I hope to hear about other people who have made improvements in their lives, and that others can use this service as a similar tool.
If you’re interested, I hope to give you the opportunity to connect with others who have made large improvements in their lives, and learn from their experiences.
About Ed
Thanks for coming to grow YOUR comfort zone.
So far, I have been an entrepreneur, writer, learner, software developer, photocopier salesman, and banker.
My mission with this site is to help people who would like to grow their comfort zone and make their own future
I am focused on writing about my personal experiences, as well as those of others, covering both failures and successes.
Background
I come from 5 years of the sales world from 2004 – 2009. It was one of the most exciting and challenging times of my life – all fantastic experiences with wonderful companies, co-workers, and customers.
I worked with A level companies, achieved income goals that I never thought I would see in my life, let alone at such a young age, and learned new things on a daily basis.
I am, at heart, a left-brained introvert, yet with a few changes was able to survive and thrive as a salesperson in an industry where 100% employee turnover in a year was considered “normal”.
I have made a decision to embark on a “self-made” MBA – with about the same time and budget it would take to do an actual MBA, taking 2 years to develop self-sustaining streams of income.
I hope to share in my experiences, and to help you share you experiences with the world as a whole.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does “wdy #gYOURcz YY/MM/DD?” mean?
Where did you grow YOUR comfort zone (today’s date)?
It’s a question that I ask with a daily reminder on twitter with the account @gYOURcz.
I’ve put it up as a reminder to do one thing every day to grow my comfort zone.
If you’d like to join, please follow along and reply or retweet whenever you grow your comfort zone!
What is the message of gYOURcz?
Do one thing every day to grow your comfort zone.
You don’t have to live life in stagnation, and you can have big adventures in the little things.
Life’s too short to sit at home and dwell on maybes.
The future is yours to make, go out and make it.
How does the business side of gYOURcz work?
At this moment in time, 100% of the content on gYOURcz is free.
See the disclosure policy on this page for more detail on any other compensation.
Do you offer advertising or site sponsorships?
No.
Do you offer personal consulting?
At this point in time, not normally If it’s an area I have direct experience and success in, I may consider it, however be prepared for my hourly rate. More often than not, you’re best to find somebody who has done an awesome job with what you want to do, and work with them. Can I link to gYOURcz from my site?
YES – please.
Linking to this site helps my rankings in search engines like google and bing, as well as certain web directories. You can link directly to growYOURcomfortzone.com, the gYOURcz twitter feed, or any of the articles in the blog you enjoy. Will you trade links or link back to my site?
Like many bloggers, I don’t trade links on a one-to-one basis.
Instead I regularly share great resources with my readers without expecting anything in return from the sites I link to.
Can I write a guest post for you? / Do you have a forum?
Because of the level of moderation required, I don’t currently offer guest posts or a forum, as well only a small percentage of the readers participate.
If you would like to get involved in the conversion, follow my daily twitter reminder along with me, and do one thing every day to grow your comfort zone
Alternatively, write about growing your comfort zone on your own material – I do not intend to somehow try to limit the term to this blog – as my objective is to encourage people do to one thing every day to grow their comfort zone, any way you can do it in your own space is encouraged.
What market did you have a career in business to business sales in?
According to the Industry: The document management, imaging, and printing sector, providing document solutions through every phase of the document lifecycle – from input to archive
In laymans terms: I sold photocopiers and document management software
How I like to think of it: I helped people get money out of their paperwork
Did you enjoy it?
I loved it
What is your Disclosure Policy?
My primary goal with this site is to help people do one thing every day to grow their comfort zone.
Any products or service I recommend may result in this site being compensated if you purchase them.
If you click on a link from my site (or any site for that matter) to somewhere else, assume that the link could somehow result in this site gaining compensation.
If for some reason, you see value in purchasing something I recommend, but don’t want to see this site to be compensated for it, then clear cookies in your browser, then revisit the product’s page through directly typing in the URL, searching for it through Google, or any other method you use to find websites.
Quite frankly, I’m rather indifferent on whether you purchase an item through my site or not – the priority is to have you working with programs and products that will help you first, and this site gaining revenue second.
I’d rather see lots of people get actual use out of this site, and make a small amount of revenue really helping a small portion of them by recommending things that I think would be a great help to them.
I believe that the people are smart enough that if I constantly recommend products that are basically garbage, yet pay this site high levels of compensation, people will ignore this site and over the long term there will be less benefit for both me and the public as a whole.
Any results or anecdotes are not typical of the “typical” person (I think that the “typical” person who purchases any product or service often doesn’t even use it – if we include those, often the “typical” result is no result)
What is Seneca Labs?
Grow Your Comfort Zone is a project of Seneca Labs
For more information on Seneca Labs, please visit the Seneca Labs website
