BREAKING THE COMFORT ZONE: Change Your Habits, Build Confidence & Start Your Own Business While Keeping Your Job

You do not need to change your life tomorrow. You need one habit, one idea and 90 days. Breaking the Comfort Zone is a short, practical guide for employees who want to build confidence and start a small business on the side without quitting their job. In twelve chapters it shows how to understand your comfort zone, change the habits that keep you in it, find time around a full-time job, choose and test a business idea cheaply, manage money while starting, handle fear and failure, and build a simple personal operating system that keeps you going. Inside: A comfort-zone self-assessment and a habit-replacement method that works without willpower How to find 5–10 usable hours a week and protect sleep, health and family A business-idea scorecard and the "minimum viable version" approach to testing A 90-day side-business roadmap: preparation, testing, improvement Sixteen guided examples — habit audit, time audit, weekly schedule, idea scorecard, expense and revenue tracking, weekly and monthly reviews, fear analysis, progress tracker — each shown completed for one fictional reader through his first 90 days A 30-day "Take Action" challenge of small daily steps The paperback edition also includes blank, write-in versions of the sixteen tools and trackers. Book 1 of the Breaking the Comfort Zone Series from Bright Planner.