Time for a Change?

How do you anticipate change? Sometimes it creeps up on you and other times it stares right at you. We can plan for change and finally we see it so close that we want to change our mind and keep driving the straight and comfortable path. Other times, you are ready to get off that exit because you know your life will never be the same again. 

Many times I am asked to train about something that will be changing. It’s not happening yet but will be- it doesn’t make much sense does it? Then the people in my training give me this blank stare and then start listing all the ways it won’t happen and that’s fine. Because by the time they figure it out, new rules will change everything.

So when someone says they don’t like change, what does that mean? I think it just means they want change to happen on their own terms. Sort of like controlled change- you control it. When I watch early adopters jump so fast to change, they tend to regret it. Yet the ones who move slower, stick to it longer.

I made a big change today and it was a change I resisted for many years. I made every excuse why it would not work and I simply was not ready for it. Today, I took that change exit and it felt right. It was part of my journey and it was the most positive way for me to see this change.