What do you do when you’re faced with the opportunity to change or stay the same?

During the course of your life, you will encounter many opportunities to change or stay the same, and each time you will have to decide which path to follow.

Almost always, the easy answer will be to stay the same. While the answer might be easy, the consequences of staying the same might not be in your long-term best interests.

Change, of course, brings along its own set of challenges. Fear of the unknown, fear of criticisms, fear of failure, and fear of rejection from others are just a few that I can think of.

Just the thought of choosing between changing and staying the same can almost cause you to freeze and do nothing – but of course, you know doing nothing is staying the same in disguise.

Changing can be a long journey both externally and internally. Actually, if you lean in close, I’m going to let you into a little secret. Your internal journey of change never ends. Even if you reach specific externally defined goals and achievements, there will still be a part of you, albeit tiny, that will refuse to believe you’ve changed.

I want to clarify that staying the same is also a valid option. There’s no rule or requirement to change if you don’t’ want to. One warning, though, if you choose the stay the same, you will struggle as the world around you changes because you’ll continue to wish that everyone and everything else stays the same.

So, the choice is yours. Change or stay the same. Or do both. Go on the journey to change the things you don’t like about yourself, and keep aka, stay the same in the areas that are working for you.

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