Comments on: I want things to change but I don’t want to have to change to get it http://jim1537.com/blog/i-want-things-to-change-but-i-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-have-to-change-to-get-it/ Practical Guidance for the Inner You Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:38:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Lifeismagic http://jim1537.com/blog/i-want-things-to-change-but-i-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-have-to-change-to-get-it/#comment-113 Lifeismagic Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:03:08 +0000 http://jim1537.com/blog/i-want-things-to-change-but-i-don%e2%80%99t-want-to-have-to-change-to-get-it/#comment-113 Some of us are extremely versatile when it comes to our careers & professions, adapting & making change with great ease & much success in several jobs - And yet when it comes to personal change it is a skill that needs learning from the ABCs up. I will have to liken change to learning to drive a stick shift - If you get impatient & slam on the gas - all that happens is that you rev up & spin your wheels..the more you struggle with rushing it, the worse you sink your tires into the ground. Once you calm down enough to ease up on the clutch and push the gas with a degree of grace you start moving forward....and with skill, it/making change/growth actually gets better & faster....To change myself feels to me exactly like that (whatever the area of life, change is required in - e.g. I work hard at trusting people & letting them genuinely care about me & my feelings, without interfering, which will allow friends & love come into my life & stay). Ease into change, keep it steady & don't push/rush it around. As for the folks who grasp this in 2 days..hats off to them. :) Some of us are extremely versatile when it comes to our careers & professions, adapting & making change with great ease & much success in several jobs - And yet when it comes to personal change it is a skill that needs learning from the ABCs up.
I will have to liken change to learning to drive a stick shift - If you get impatient & slam on the gas - all that happens is that you rev up & spin your wheels..the more you struggle with rushing it, the worse you sink your tires into the ground. Once you calm down enough to ease up on the clutch and push the gas with a degree of grace you start moving forward….and with skill, it/making change/growth actually gets better & faster….To change myself feels to me exactly like that (whatever the area of life, change is required in - e.g. I work hard at trusting people & letting them genuinely care about me & my feelings, without interfering, which will allow friends & love come into my life & stay).

Ease into change, keep it steady & don’t push/rush it around. As for the folks who grasp this in 2 days..hats off to them. :)

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