Knowing that we need to change is one thing, how to do it is another. For some people change is simply a choice of "Yesterday I reacted to everything...from today I will respond professionally"..its that simple..a choice. Yet for others it is a long, long climb to the top of the change hill where the barrier points of change confront us at every level.
Charles Darwin who was born 200 years ago new much about change when he said "It's not the strongest of the species who survive, not the most intelligent, but those who are the most adaptive to change".
Marty Wilson is an author and speaker and he talks about three facts of change that are worthy of note.
1. Life is change. Take a look in the mirror. Consider your first day at school, at work, living with someone, children, mortgages, responsibility, failures, successes and it goes on. Please don't tell me you are not adaptable. The issue is in your choice. Not your ability to change, but the poor choice not to change, when change is the right thing to do.
2. When you chose not to change, you lose the future. I like this one. People get all emotional about not wanting to let go. They want to hold on to what is safe, comfortable...the past. Yet they have no idea how great their future could be and so they lose their future.
3. You can't put change in your diary. There is no right time for change. There will always be barrier points and reasons not to change as life throws stuff at us and the black dog in our heads barks at us not to change because it will be dangerous. Just suck it up and do it.
The Philosopher, Wittgenstein said that "The limits of one's language are the limits of one's world".
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