Change or Supposed Security

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It is all about choice

To suffer one’s death and be reborn again is not easy. Too bad we have to suffer so many “deaths” in order to see the light. I think that must be related to the healing/growing process of moving from “…preferring the security of known misery, to the supposed misery of unfamiliar insecurity.”

What we are talking about is the risk of change. Here is my definition of change: All men and women regard all change, both good and bad change, with a feeling of loss [example remorse], and that feeling of loss always creates some form of anger. One example of the kind of anger we are talking about is anxiety. There are several others as well.

Why is it so important that we know about and understand change? We humans, and there are no exceptions, are constantly involved in change. Change never stops. It is always constantly going on in us and around us. The truly successful men and women of the business community have a good understanding of change and how you can control change to your advantage. You cannot stop it, but you can control change.

It is true you will not skid in a rut. But, you have no control where that rut will take you. You have lost your freedom. “You are in a rut”. To not change is to lose control. To lose you freedom. Laurence J. Peter states that “A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.” He is talking about life without understanding the importance of change.

Mark Twain put it his way “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.” Many good people refuse to accept the risk and uncertainty that change always brings with it. They force themselves to live in a self-imposed stagnant prison of their own making. They have part of it right. There can be some security in a prison. I would name the prison Opportunity Lost. When it comes to change we really only have two choices. One is to embrace change with gusto. The second is to not admit that change is constant and live in denial.

Someone said, “Life isn’t about how to survive the storm, but how to dance in the rain”. I believe, the happiest people do not necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have. Choose Change. It is the only path to true happiness and business success.

Change is King

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If you have a clear and certain understanding of the emotions change always causes, you will be ahead of 90% of the population.  Here are some interesting truths about change:

  1. Change is constant intended or not.
  2. Most of us will not change until the pain of not changing is greater than the pain of changing.
  3.  All men and women regard all change, both good and bad change, with a feeling of loss and that feeling of loss always causes some form of anger, anxiety, or stress.

Understanding change and understanding how it always makes us feel is one of life’s secrets to a better and more productive life.  Most of us have never really thought of how change makes us feel.  We just endure the change.  If we can understand the “why” of change we will have a leg up on a better and more fulfilling life.

Everything that happens in this world is involved in change.  There are no exceptions to this fact.  In essence change is a part of what we are about every day and every hour.  Based on these facts it seems mandatory that we learn better how to handle change.   It should be a regular part of our education it should be taught in all our schools.  As you know it is not.

Get a head’s up on how change works by reading my new book, Conquer Change and Win.  It is an easy to read fun book about this very important subject that is ignored by most.  It is available at Amazon.com and other outlets.

In the book you will find out how to handle the feelings that positive and negative change always bring.  Once you know how change works in all men and women; and how to control the feelings it presents, you will have a much better opportunity to be the last one standing in any situation.

Let me close with my definition of change:   Change is simply doing something different and that change will always leave you with a feeling of loss and that feeling of loss (that pit of the stomach feeling) will cause some form of fear, stress or other form of anxiety.   It is time to make change a friend.  Change is king.  Long live the king.