life change

Why does it take something major to convince a person that their life could be better?

Living easily without having to deal with change is what comes naturally to us. We resist change, we like things the way they are even if we don't really like things the way they are. Do you know what I mean?

No matter where you work or live it is easy to find people who don't care for the situation but do nothing about it, except complain of course.

Even when a major event does spark change many people slip right back to their old habits with all due haste. People quit smoking when they get sick from it and pick up the cigarettes again in a few short months.

I have no answers. I struggle everyday with who I am versus who I want to be, with what I have versus what I want to have, with what I do versus what I want to do. With that thought I think I see part of the answer.

It is the known versus the unknown. Even if the path you are on leads you to disaster you know it step by step and perhaps, you think, you can fend off that disaster the next time it shows up. More likely than not that disaster will happen anyway, even if you see it coming.

Fear of the unknown then is an obstacle to change. You know, that is a pretty easy fix, just make the unknown into the known.

How do you do that?

Create a concise vision of who you want to be, what you want to have and what you want to do.

Then just do it.