High 5 Weekly Career Transitions Roundup: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

This is our weekly roundup of some of the best career-related articles, interviews, blogs, etc., we've read during the week. We share them so you have some great resources to prepare you for the coming week. Enjoy!

• How to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable: "Choosing courage, in all its forms, challenges our preconceived notions and expands our comfort circle. As your comfort circle increases, so does your willingness to tackle bigger risks."

• 10 Ways to Cultivate Fearlessness: "When you’ve cut calamities off at the pass, you can let go of your fears about them, and you’ll redirect your focus and power to the task at hand."

• Why You Should Start a Weekly Planning Session: "I recommend doing this on Friday afternoons around 2 p.m. when your brain is done bringing its intellectual/creative A game for the week."

• Why Likable Leaders Seem More Effective: "teams who like their leaders will be happier at work, go above and beyond what is required of them, experience greater well-being, and perform at a higher level."
• How to Impress the New CEO in Your First Meeting:"Reading the CEO’s book, essays or published papers will give you an edge in your career—whether you’re interviewing for a job or meeting the new chief executive for the first time."

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: 10 Uncomfortable Deeds That Will Make You More Successful

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career and life development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below from Entrepreneur, learn how the act of stepping outside of your comfort zone contributes to your success and well-being.

3 Things a Good Mentor Will Do For You

A mentor can help you at any stage in your career but not all mentors are created equal. You don't want a mentor that simply listens to you complain about your job, or your supervisor, or the dream job that got away. You could, after all, simply see a counselor if you just want someone to listen to you talk.

An effective and useful mentor will do the following:

1. Make you uncomfortable. Your mentor will inspire and challenge you to move outside of your comfort zone and do something you might find difficult, such as accept that public speaking request or taking on that assignment you feel unqualified for. A good mentor knows that doing the thing you fear will produce incredible growth in you as a person and will bring great benefits to your career.

2. Challenge you to act. An insightful mentor will allow you to share the things that are bothering you or frustrating you about your work and career. However, your mentor will move you to take some course of action rather than being immobilized by fear or anxiety. Simply taking one step can go a long way toward becoming unstuck in a difficult situation.

3. Encourage you to think differently. Not only will your mentor encourage you to step outside your comfort zone and do something, he or she will also help you disrupt unhelpful or harmful ways of thinking and challenge you to consider things from a new perspective.

A mentor who can help you challenge you in the above three ways is definitely one worth keeping, or seeking out.

Daily Leap Career Video of the Week: Be Willing to Be Uncomfortable

Each week we present our Daily Leap Career Video of the Week. The video we share presents news or advice related to career development, searching for a job, the economy and employment, and other career-related topics.

In the video below Evan Carmichael and T. Harv Eker, author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, discuss the importance of taking risks and being willing to be uncomfortable for success in life and in your career.