A Change Will Do Us Good

After two days of euphoria and the sort of planning and organizing that fulfills our Type A personalities, the panic has set in.

We woke up to it this morning, like a cloud over the bed:  Anxiety, Dismay, and CHANGE.  The unknown is right there, standing on our doorstep.  (Would you like me to continue with the mixed metaphors?  See how stressed I am?!)

"It's easy to want change, but it's hard to actually change.  Very, really hard.

You have to be willing to be uncomfortable, enter the unknown, do things your ego doesn't want to do.  You have to value being true to what you glimpse as possible - to the heart of your heart - more than you want to be right or get your own way or be comfortable.

...Many of us are inspired to change, but few of us are willing to be as uncomfortable as is required to actually change.  In the cascade of daily moments when you want to eat or withdraw, when you don't want to think about where your money is going or make financial choices based on your values, where do you turn for refuge?  Do you return to the safety of familiar patterns?  Do you convince yourself that you have so much to do that taking responsibility for your own choices is too much of a burden?  Or do you undertake the time-consuming and intense work of change?"

{from Lost and Found by Geneen Roth}