If once in a while I don't push outside my comfort zone I don't feel like I'm living to my true potential. I like to instil this in others through work, Open Source Community, Drupal, social media and Scouting as a leader. You don't have to step far outside to get a sense of achievement. You should try it! Here's the story of one such person that did.

1. @pdjohnson
<b>notCodedIn5years*</b>
Spot the obvious mistake

2. Let go of your fear
AKA believe in yourself

3. When was the last time you took
a step outside your comfort zone?

4. Mike Bell went from poor mental
health to keynote at DrupalCon
Barcelona.
Lots of small steps but a huge
accomplishment

5. My best memories are from
pushing (scaring) myself

6. Sa Calobra in Majorca, a recent
time I went beyond my comfort
zone (on a bike)

7. Have you ever had an opportunity
you wish you had taken?

8. One day I got an invite to interview
Dries on stage at DrupalCon (in front
of 3000+ people). I thought for a few
minutes, whilst it’s not what I do, I
decided I’d be crazy to say no.

9. I was scared stiff

10. Truth is Dries was
bricking it too ;-0
(his keynote was approaching a difficult subject)

11. The bravest people I know are ...

12. … my 8-10 yr old Cub Scouts (I’m a leader)

13. They take small steps on a path to big things

14. Building confidence
one step at a time

16. Remember …
we were all kids once!

17. So what stops us pushing
ourselves?

18. Fear of failure
Complaicancy
Prevarication

19. Life is just a
series of
small steps

20. Meet @henniemartens

22. Pretoria, SA

23. Never met him
Site builder
5 yrs or more?
Works remote

24. Has Zebra in his garden
Too dangerous to drive to
meetups
Dreamt of progressing in
Drupal

25. “All the interesting
stuff happening
elsewhere”

26. Taking things one (small) step
at a time

27. I encouraged him to make
friends on Twitter … and oh boy
has he done this. Look at his
followers (some significant
Drupalists here)

28. Not all steps are scary

29. “Why don’t you learn Omega 4
theme” I said. So he did.

30. “Agencies like ours value people
with Drupal Commerce skills” I
said. So he learnt it.

31. What next?

32. “The hardest thing
when I started
there was imposter
syndrome…”
@henniemartens

33. Everyone is an
imposter. Just some
of us are better at
hiding it, facing it.

34. Freelancing (great
place to start)

35. Lands a job with
Wunderman!
http://www.wunderm
an.co.za

36. “We launched this
site on Friday. My
first site I did all the
frontend on
sitebuilding”

37. Big scary projects
<insert famous client
here/>

38. The best news yet is
Wunderman are
sending Hennie to
DrupalCon, an
impossible dream for
him 5 years ago.

39. What’s your next step?

40. Let go of your fear ;-)

41. Go outside your comfort
zone, see where it leads!