CHANGE CAN BE RISKY

Put a snow globe on a shelf and look at it. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of little individual pieces of fake snow. If you never move that globe nothing inside it will ever be different.

But imagine for a moment that all the places inside the globe are not equal. The ones on the bottom might be starved for air and feeling the weight of those above them. Maybe a few are facing the sun, happy and prefer not to move but there are others who face the dark and are getting tired of it.

Well as I said if you leave the globe alone everything remains the same. But if lots of those little pieces wanted to change their positions you would have to pick up the globe and shake it, vigorously. Now lay it down again and all the pieces will be in different positions. Some will be happy with the new positions, others not so. But a change has occurred.

There in lies the key to understanding change and why so many people shy away from it. To effect change there will be a period of chaos, risk, uncertainty and in the case of the globe, if you are inside it, violence.

After the enormity of a hurricane, a tornado an unnatural storm there is always a calm.  The next day invariably the sun is out, bright and the day appears as if is nothing just took place last night.

That is the key to understanding change. It will be hard to deal with, will involve risk, will cause apprehension, confusion and uncertainly.  But, and this is the single most important part of it, is that nothing will change without the turmoil. If the globe stays on the shelf, if you stay at the desk of your unhappy job or stay with the mate you know you should give up on, then you will remain forever unhappy about the situation you are in.

But if you are willing to take the chance, accept that change requires risk and maybe something far worse then you will have the chance to make a better something else for your self.

In the end it will be better to go for it. There is always a good chance it will work out for you. Plan for it correctly and embrace what is about to happen.