Without change, something sleeps
inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank
Herbert.
It often seems to me that people would
rather die than change something in their lives. Any discussion of
different ways of being, eating, exercising, recreating, and just
plain living invariably leads to the proposal of all kinds of
reasons why the new way of doing things is undoubtedly worse than the
old, or at least no better. Sometimes I wonder how it is that we
aren't all still dying of the black plague and thinking disease is
caused by miasmas, our resistance to change is just that strong.
Except, of course, when change means getting the latest i-phone,
smart phone or other piece of electronic junk, and then we are all
over it.
The only people who find change easy
(or at least easier) are people with goals. I don't think it matters
too much what those goals are – getting stronger, climbing better,
reducing your medications, or lowering a golf handicap – as long as
the goal is intrinsically motivated. If you are really driven to
reach your goal you are much less likely to keep banging away doing
the same thing when the same thing is clearly not working. No goal,
no change, however.
Coming into shore on the east side of Hinchinbrook Island
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