Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Life by Design

Summary

In this episode of the Life By Design podcast, Jessilyn and Brian Persson discuss the importance of embracing discomfort as a pathway to growth. They highlight both personal and financial development, emphasizing that true progress often happens outside of our comfort zones. The conversation touches on networking, financial decisions, and the role of fear in pointing us toward necessary challenges. Jessilyn and Brian share personal anecdotes and practical tips, encouraging listeners to see discomfort as a learning opportunity and to build resilience in the face of challenges.
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Chapters

00:00 Embracing Discomfort for Growth

06:51 The Power of Networking

11:04 Choosing Your Hard

19:15 Understanding Debt and Wealth

25:24 Adaptability and Resilience

27:28 Practical Tips for Getting Uncomfortable
Transcripts

Jessilyn Persson (00:00)

Welcome to the Life By Design podcast we're Jessilyn and Brian Pearson, struggling to align your financial goals or confidently invest in real estate as a couple,

Brian Persson (00:09)

That's why we created this podcast and the Riches, Relationships and Real Estate program to help you build wealth and strengthen your relationship. Visit weekendwealth.ca to take our quiz and discover your real estate investor type. Let's create the life you deserve together.

Jessilyn Persson (00:26)

Today we're going to be talking about being comfortable being uncomfortable. ⁓ It's a powerful mindset principle. means embracing growth, challenge and uncertainty. Knowing that discomfort often signals progress. So today we're going to share some insights and stories on how to apply this in your life. So let's talk about why it matters. I mean, we got different concepts here to share, but

We've learned from experience that growth lives outside of comfort.

Brian Persson (00:58)

Yep. Yeah, just think about working out. That's the simplest example of where growth really matters. You will never grow muscle. You'll never get faster, better, stronger if you don't work out and cause those muscles a little bit of aches and pains, right?

Same thing goes with financial, emotional, ⁓ physical growth. They all require just that little bit of stretch zone, just some kind of stretch, some kind of pressure on them to go a little bit further than where you've gone before. And often that can be very uncomfortable for most people. We're creatures of habit. We like to stay exactly where we are, what's known, what's safe, what's convenient.

and growth doesn't really live in safe and convenient all the time.

Jessilyn Persson (01:49)

Yeah, I know we talk often about networking. That's how we built our business, is how we built our real estate, even our, ⁓ just our source of connections. But networking is really uncomfortable for many people, especially if you don't do it often or you're new to it.

And I know that being in the nonprofit that I'm the president of currently where we work with business owners, women in business specifically, and so many women just talk about how they're uncomfortable networking. They won't make eye contact, they'll stand in a corner by themselves, some of them will even buy a ticket to an event and then they don't actually...

because they don't think they know anyone there and it's an interesting dynamic. I I can appreciate it, but I've been networking for over 20 years now. I kind of was thrown into it straight out of university with one of the companies I worked with. I was out working 50 to 90 hours a week, mostly networking at events. That was just the job. So I guess I'm fortunate that I got trained young enough and early enough to carry it forward, but it can be daunting to enter a room of

Unknown and people you don't know and not sure what to say and what can get kind of caught in our heads, right? On what to what to what are people gonna say? What are people gonna think? I don't know what you're right and opposed to just stepping in and saying hi, I'm just land

Brian Persson (03:24)

You're never going to get it right the first networking time. Like it's interesting you said you started young because I think that's key. And that's key not just with networking but just anything you do in life. The earlier you can start, the more you're going to grow and the bigger you're going to be into the future. So if you started networking at 40, well, you now you're 50 by the time you have experienced networking, like and you're kind of the master of it. You started at 20, well, guess what? You're 30 when you're...

now you're in the master of networking. I was having that conversation with our kids the other day. ⁓ Our oldest, Jackson, he was like, you know, I go to these camps because it's summertime right now and we send them to a whole bunch of camps. And he's like, I never know what to ask the other kids. then the week goes by and then everybody's leaving and he's like, I feel like I haven't made any friends. ⁓

Yeah, but he's just not experienced in networking, right? And he's maybe nervous to ask the wrong questions or say the wrong thing. But the reality is, that if he just gets out there and says something or asks something, you know, what's your favorite color? It doesn't really matter. Yeah. Then he's out there connecting with other kids. And same thing with an adult networking room or a business networking room. You just got to get out there and you're going to bomb some questions and you're going to win some questions.

You just figure it out through the practice of it. But if you're too uncomfortable and you just don't go, then you're never gonna get there. So, sweat some bullets, get into those networking rooms, because I know I used to sweat bullets years and years ago. Now, almost any networking room I go into, new, old, like first time I've ever been in there, no nervousness, I just kind of go in and immediately go to some people and start chatting and there's no qualms about it in my head.

no uncomfortableness, that uncomfortableness has kind of gone away.

Jessilyn Persson (05:19)

Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, I've stepped up into a president role, like I said, for a nonprofit. And so it's not I don't really have a choice. I'm at every event that's part of my mandate being in that role. And I also am speaking to the entire crowd every time at these. I'm at these events, but I don't go into it with nerves about who am I going to meet now? I have a different perspective going in, so I'm like, now I've got to make sure my board set up. Everyone's got what they need. Right. But in that.

way I'm still meeting individuals all the time and I'm now getting to see it kind of from a different perspective of watching these new people come in or even my board if they're newer and having t...