HOW WELL DO YOU HANDLE CHANGE?

'In today's world, if we can't embrace change our wellbeing will suffer'.

A  friend said this to me the other day.  It made me remember a recent situation I was involved in....

I was looking at yet another new technological device and trying to take in all the features and great new things it was capable of. (Anyone else relate to that?) And it came up........that feeling of overwhelm, a little desperation, and feeling 'less than'.  

I physically felt my whole body start to cave in, my shoulders became rounded, my thoughts became scattered, and I felt totally unsure of myself.  I felt unhappy in myself and realized that my un happiness was a signal to me that I would benefit from making a change.

This experience made me realize that if we don't embrace change we could get left behind. Our chance of happiness gets more and more remote as the world in which we navigate becomes smaller and smaller.  (Think how it would be now for someone who cannot use a computer at all!, how small their world has become and how limiting their choices are.).

So....here's a couple of questions for you to think about:

• How comfortable are you with change?
• What kind of change to you handle best - change you have some notice of or instant change where you have to react quickly?
• Do you handle other people's change well but struggle to accept change in your own life?

FINALLY:

A couple of tips about how you think about change:

• Consciously change the way you talk to yourself during change....so, instead of saying to yourself, "This will be hard, brace yourself"........change that to ...."I'm taking action now....I'm living a life that has meaning, inspiration and excitement!" "I might make mistakes and that's all part of the learning curve".
• Another something to say to yourself - "The only thing that's stopping me...is ME!"
• Congratulate yourself for every little step you take.!

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