Christian Little

If you look up synonyms for ‘changeable’ you will find words such as: ‘volatile’, ‘uncertain’, ‘unstable, ‘unsettled’. All of those can make us feel ‘vunerable’, ‘unsure’ and / or ‘insecure’.

There is a small corner in all of us which likes to feel safe and secure and change clearly goes against that. However, after change has taken places, we often refer to it as ‘evolution’, ‘progress’, ‘expansion’, ‘growth’ or ‘advancement’, and this throws up a far more positive set of emotions.

So, it appears that it is not change itself which scares us so much as the transition process that it entails – that step into the unknown. We like the stability of things as they presently are. Now feels safe because we know what to expect; yet our ‘now’ is changing every day.

Maybe it is not change that we fear, rather it is the loss of control that we associate with change. Change, on whatever level, inherently carries an element of risk. Sometimes that perceived risk is so daunting that it prevents us making changes that we need to despite the current discomforts.

At the other end of the scale, there are times when we have probably all been guilty of change for change’s sake. We change our hair color, we change the layout of the living room furniture, we may even change jobs.

Why do we do that? We do it to distract ourselves from making the changes that really matter in our lives. In reality, it might be our choice of career that is making us unhappy, but we will change our hair color ‘just to make ourselves feel better’, because that is an ‘easy change’.

Seeing as change is inevitable, why not embrace it? Use change as an opportunity to measure what your life, and course correct. Seize change as your master key to success. That’s what successful people do, so why not you too?

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This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. Read On : Success Strategies