Accepting responsibility for change

Change is the only constant thing in life. It starts right from conception, a series of rapid changes up to infancy. We go through changes right up to old age until we take the final bow. Accepting responsibility for change is a challenge most of us have.

For us to grow, or make progress, we have to change. To become better than we are today, we have to make some changes to our current daily routine.

Insanity has been defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. To create the tomorrow of our dreams, we have to change our modus operandi today…

We react to change in different ways. We resist it, embrace it, or try to avoid it. Whichever way we chose to handle change, change is inevitable. We cannot run away from it. We can choose to be agents of change rather than by-products of it. Burying our heads in the sand will not make it go away

If we are to make progress toward the fulfillment of our God-given dreams, we have to make changes constantly, as we adapt to new challenges. It is called continuous improvement.

Leaving your comfort zone

Change is a scary business. It means leaving behind the known for the unknown. It may entail leaving behind our comfort zone to tread uncharted territory. We tend to want to cling to the familiar. Our current circumstances may not be satisfactory. Rather than stepping out, we whine, murmur, and complain about it. Anything but take responsibility for change.

It is easier to apportion blame than take responsibility. We have our excuses ready to explain our current situation. It is everybody else’s fault except ours. We become experts at fixing faults instead of fixing the problem. Since it is not our fault, we don’t have any responsibility to effect the desired change. We are the victims here. Things should simply line up by themselves…

We hope and pray for change in our circumstances. Hope is not a strategy. If we don’t change, nothing changes.

Accepting responsibility for change

We have to take responsibility for change, instead of being the end product of change. That includes where we are going, or hope to go. We simply cannot allow circumstances to dictate our destination, dreams, or possibilities.

We have to take responsibility for our state of affairs. Our present is the consequence of the choices we made in the past. The choices we make today are shaping our tomorrow. Today is the tomorrow you dreamed about yesterday. To shape the tomorrow of our dreams, we have to embrace change. It is our responsibility to initiate change. We cannot remain the same and expect our desired tomorrow to happen.

We have to change our habits, attitudes, routines, mindsets, paradigms, etc. Your daily routine determines your habits. Your habits determine your character, which determines your destiny.

You have to learn new things, do new things, attempt new things, expand your thinking, and throw off self-imposed limitations. Dare to step out of your comfort zone into a world of limitless possibilities.

Say goodbye to yesterday…

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