Stan Ellis

Change has become more prominent in the last few years than ever before. Change is showing up everywhere. It 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. Many of the changes you experience present themselves almost as if they’re an enemy to your progress.  There are numerous changes that produce nothing but frustration. Just when you begin to find your flow, something unexpected can be introduced into your mix that interrupts your momentum.

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.

It’s likely that something in your life is changing so slowly right now that you are probably not discerning just how much progress it’s making. I’m talking about an unwanted change. It just bodacious shows up on your radar one day and announces that it’s exerting its influence. When you look back in retrospect you realize that this change wasn’t as sudden as it first appeared. It had been slowly approaching you for some time. You just failed to discern that it was headed your way. Or, you were too busy with your life demands to do something about it before it forced itself on you.

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.

What if you learned the art of discerning what is “about” to change before it actually comes? 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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