A Change For the Better

Ever notice that lots of people have dreams and goals, especially when they are young but then they seem to ‘settle’ for something else, something less than what they really want?

Today I share two quotes;

You pay the price of discipline or you pay the price of regret but either way you gotta pay. Jim Rohn

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. Raymond Holliwell

Now, logically we can all understand & agree with these statements but emotionally? Not necessarily because we let ‘life’ get in our way. We get caught up in the small picture and let go of the big picture because we have our feelings in the moment. But at the heart of every dream, of every goal, of every wish, is the desire to be happy and we think we know how we can find that happiness but if that doesn’t work out the way we planned we tend to still try to hang onto it, long past when we should move on. The universe has a way of letting us know when we need to make some changes & sometimes we don’t even see it coming & we might resist it when it happens.

So how does a person let go of something, that might not be right for us, that might not make us happy anymore, that might not be right for us anymore? By finding something bigger than what we want (or maybe need) to leave behind.

If you had a job, a good job that you enjoyed doing but he company wasn’t great or a great company doing a job you maybe didn’t love or a similar scenario at work and for whatever reason you needed to find a different job; you would have to leave the security or familiarity of that old job in order to find a better job. You would have to let go of what was ‘comfortable’ to move onto what was better. At first, it wouldn’t be very comfortable but if you wanted something better from your career, that would be the price you paid for getting something better. And once you got busy with that new job you would give very little thought to the old job so the new job became bigger than the old.

It’s the same for relationships, for habits or for anything really; you have to let go of the lesser to move to the better.