Are you one of those people that change totally knocks you off your track? I am such a creature of habit that change in my life can totally cause my train to come to a complete stop! I mean lock the brakes this train isn’t moving! I am such a creature of habit that my days could totally look the same, I get up at the same time, I go to the gym at the same time, I eat the same thing, you get the picture. Major change can shake me to the core if I let it. Change can stop me from following through on habits I have formed, and cause me to stop doing them if my schedule is interrupted, or changed in some way.
I saw a quote recently that said “Don’t be afraid to start over. It’s a new chance to rebuild what you want.” So why do we fight change so bad? We fight change because it’s uncomfortable. We fight change because we’re entering the unknown and we don’t like that. We fight change because it’s scary. Something I have learned throughout my life; however, is that sometimes God has to make things uncomfortable for us to get us to move because we need to grow, and where we’re planted at that particular moment isn’t conducive to that growth. Sometimes it has to get so uncomfortable that it forces us to make a change to something new.
Comfort makes us stay in abusive relationships. Comfort causes us to stay in a job that doesn’t fulfill us or push us forward. Comfort causes us to stay in our own little world, with the same people, and do nothing to make a difference in the world. Comfort causes us not to go on and get the education we started out to get because we think we’re too old and it will take too long. Comfort causes us to sit on the couch and not get the exercise that we need, especially as we age. Comfort causes us to never travel and see this big, beautiful world we live in.
What do you have to gain by getting out of your comfort zone and stop fearing change?? That dream job? A loving relationship that makes you better? A healthy body? New friends? That amazing company that you’ve been wanting to start? Too many stamps on your passport? A happy and exciting life? I mean the possibilities are endless, and I don’t care how old we are, or are getting, we are not too old to go out and make life what we want it. We are not too old for change! We are not too old to learn something new!
So I urge you, if something is happening in your life that is uncomfortable and is pushing you to do something, shake off those excuses and get out there and do it! If you want something bad enough, you will make it happen! This is where I found myself lately and then I was forced to make some life changes. Yes, I may have to change my schedule and find my new normal. Yes I have to learn something new and although it seems daunting at times, I will get it. Yes I may have to get up earlier to get my morning routine in and some of it may have to be done at night, but it’s okay. I trust that all the changes that seem to be happening in and around my life are setting up greater things in my future. So, I am choosing to embrace these new changes.
What can you choose to embrace right now? Can you trust the path and trust that the change is pushing you in a positive direction? I urge you to trust that these changes are going to bring about a pretty amazing future for you! You are not too old and you deserve an amazing life so if change is what it will take to make that happen, then embrace this change!!
With love for you all!
Shauna
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