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“A leopard cannot change its spots.”  -  Biblical origin

“Change is inevitable.  Progress is optional.”  -  Tony Robbins

     The New Year will be upon us in three weeks – the time of year that the word “change” is most bandied about.  Change is defined as to make or become different.  Much traditional wisdom leads us to believe that people cannot inherently change – and of course there are many physical characteristics we cannot change about ourselves.  But what of our nature, our habits, our outlook and the way we treat others?  History books are full of examples of radical changes in people, both for the better and for the worse. 

     Of course, there are many ways we can change for the worse without putting any thought or effort into it.  But positive change requires the acknowledgment that doing or being different would be beneficial and the formulation of a plan to alter our behaviors.  All too often this comes to us as a “bottom” of some sort – having to reach a point that the pain of continuing our current behavior is greater than our fear of change.  It is interesting to note that the changes we fear the most are the ones we take on ourselves – somehow changes forced on us by our environment are often easier to take – perhaps because we have something to “blame it on.”

     There is only one way that I have been able to change – and that is to do something different right now.  All of my grand schemes and plots to change do not seem to come to anything unless I continue to make the decision that in this moment I am going to do this or avoid that – and then stick with that in the moments to come.  Perhaps in retrospect change appears to have happened at a specific time, but when we are going through it it feels like thousands of decisions to do something unfamiliar –one after the other.  Like a big ship at sea, we have momentum and the only way to change course is one degree at a time.  If we continue to make the new choices one moment at a time, before long we will look up and realize we are heading in a completely different direction.  And then we wonder what the big deal was – but that is another story.

Today, may I be persistent.

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David