Change Something Before Change Beats You To It

Have you noticed that change does not make adjustments “for” you—it makes adjustments “to” you? It makes adjustments “in” you. Change does not respond to you—it demands that you respond to it.

Unexpected changes throws most people off and distracts them from their progress. Just when you figure out how to manage that difficult task, get everything figured out, and start making progress, something gets introduced into the mix that messes up everything. You’ve experienced having all the pieces of the proverbial puzzle together when something comes along and scrambles all the pieces requiring you to start completely over.

Change has one of the loudest voices and is one of the most powerful influences of the current age. It seems to come out of nowhere. Sometimes it presents itself as an enemy to your progress.   There are numerous changes that produce nothing but frustration. Just when you begin to find your flow, something unexpected walks in your life that interrupts your momentum.

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What if you learned the art of discerning what is “about” to change before it actually changes? If you are ever blindsided by change you are already at a disadvantage. It places you in a position where you are reacting to the change that threw you off. It forces you to play from behind.   Here’s 3-ways to get an advantage over change:

1.  Live Alert.

  • Something is about to change. What is it?
  • Don’t wait until you are shocked by change. Begin to ask yourself, “What is most likely to change next year, six months from now, next month?”
  • What is already on shaky ground? What is reaching the end to its useful life?
  • Discern the things in your life that you’re depending on right now that are not sustainable long-term.

2.  Live in Today While Thinking in Tomorrow.

  • Beat Change to the Punch.
  • Change something before change does.
  • If you are active at making changes in your thinking, your preparation, your daily patterns, and your disciplines, when change comes it simply becomes a part of what you’re already doing—changing.

3.  Initiate and institute change into your life-flow.

  • There are too many layers to you for you to remain the same anyway.
  • Each change you make is simply a new reflection of the amazing “you” that you are.
  • Change a pattern of thought. Forgive quickly, release daily, love freely.
  • Change your disciplines. Get up early, do things correctly, refuse to be ordinary.
  • Change your environment. Go where you’re inspired. If it doesn’t inspire, let it expire.

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6 thoughts on “Change Something Before Change Beats You To It”

  1. Excellent insight. I resist change when it involves something I set in motion, but not when it involves someone else’s plans. That’s how I know a change is needed within me.

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    • Understandable. It’s natural to resist change. However, when you begin to pursue change, it can no longer intimidate you. Just start looking for areas in your life that you need to change. Start taking steps towards changing in those areas. The whole thought of change is to improve or enhance the current experience. If you’re in the habit of changing personally, change will eventually become something that you welcome.

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  2. I agree, change is always hard but often needed. We have to change to grow and we must grow to change. At this stage of life I take the aggressive approach of attacking change before it sneaks up on me. Just like change, at times we must be unpredictable!

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