Posts Tagged ‘Change’

‘When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.’ Viktor Frankl

Situations come. Situations go. But no matter what situation we find ourselves in, we are given the wonderful opportunity to not always change the situation or even how others respond to that situation, but rather to change the way we think, the way we respond, and the very way we live.

Someone recently told me that if you’re standing still you’re actually going backwards. However, if we create an environment within which we are constantly challenged to change, we will ever more forward.

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If you want to change your future, and yet continue to do what you have done in the past – right up to your present – you are sadly mistaken.

In order to jolt yourself out of your complacency, and a future that will simply be a replay of your past and present – except for one thing – you’re older, you must take your present by the scruff of the neck, in fact take your future by the throat, and change your habits that have brought you to where you are today.

So if you are not fully satisfied with the results of your life to this point, then you need to take drastic action.

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Every one of us has a strength. And it is by tapping that strength and by strengthening that strength that we can produce the most productive life possible.

Strong people are those who have identified their strengths and use them on a daily basis to add value to their lives and to the lives of those around them.

There was a skinny little kid showing off to some of his little friends the muscles that were developing in his skinny forearm.

One of the bigger kids mocked him saying, ‘Hey Robbo, are you trying to break the record for the muscle that hangs down the lowest?’

All the kid’s laughed.

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Change is necessary if we are to ever grow to the height and stature that I believe all of us have been created for.

Is change always comfortable? No. Is change always convenient? No. Is change necessary? Yes.

Why? Because without change we remain stunted and then a most unpleasant thing will start to happen. And what is that? Decay.

For the fact is that if you’re not growing, you’re not flowing and and as a direct result of that you’re not going to fulfil your GREATEST potential.

That is why I constantly surround myself with people who are ‘moving and shaking’. Am I challenged? You bet. Am I stretched? So much so that I think I have started to develop stretch marks. But it’s a good stretch. It’s a necessary stretch. Because at the opposite end of the spectrum, to not stretch is to stagnate.

It is a healthy thing to be stretched, for it is in an atmosphere of growth and of vision that our own vison will be enhanced and clarified. And as we operate in an attitude of giving and service we will find an even greater fulfillment.

And as one entrepreneur once said, ‘I hire people smarter than myself and then take notes furiously.’

So it is by faith that we must plunge ourselves into environments that may at times be daunting. But because we have chosen that path, it won’t be long before we find ourselves surfing on top of the waters that we may just have thought, in that moment where we decided to change, that they were certainly going to drown us.