3 Important Benefits of Change
Change we choose is exciting and exhilarating. Change chosen for us can feel terrifying and destructive, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Change allows us to...
Shift focus
Perhaps change has been dumped on your lap today. Perhaps it’s loss or heartache. Forced change makes it necessary to shift our focus. When I recently suffered loss, it made me shift my focus to deep gratitude for the people around me and shared experiences at a deeper level. I shifted my focus as best I could from grief to deeper connection with the people still around me.
New Growth Opportunities
Nothing will make us level up faster than necessity. When we're thrown in the deep end of disaster, we figure it out. It always amazes me how masterful we can become at something in a short amount of time when we have no other choice! What growth opportunity have you been avoiding or delaying that you could develop now and choose to change before it's forced on you?
New Beginnings
Our minds crave novelty, but first they crave safety and peace in the comfortable here and now. This then creates conflict which we must reconcile with new adventure!
Yes loss, disaster or disappointment can force us to have new beginnings, but we can also design challenge into our lives to facilitate growth spurts!
The highest performers I coach design a life with pre-determined discomfort and challenge. They push harder at the gym, sign up for that endurance race that's well outside of their current training level, they say "yes" to the speaking engagement that terrifies them!!
They survive and even thrive during these events because they have sought out novelty, stretched their courage muscle, chosen their change and grown in an exhilarating way!
Change is inevitable and a rich life is created when we shift our perspective during difficult times, level up and start anew!
What challenge are you facing today where you can shift your focus, decide to grow in the heartache and design a life of courageously seeking novelty and growth?
