Chapter 1. Choose to Change
Sure, it hurt, but I didn’t throw gas on the fire. I didn’t feed the emotion. As a result, it went away. Our youth can sometimes teach us our greatest lessons. I was too young to know to fear change, so I moved on without serious side effects. But as an adult, change got tougher and tougher until I learned to embrace it. That is when my life changed forever. Most change seems to work this
If we embrace change, we are on the way to a Totally Fulfilled life.
way. When we move from one situation to another, initially it’s scary or challeng- ing, and ultimately our condition gets better if we’re willing to detach ourselves
from the situation. It isn’t always easy, but it’s worth it. If we embrace change, we are on the way to a Totally Fulfilled life. If change was not a factor, or you had no fears in your life, where would you be today? More important, where would you go from here? When a business associate of mine found out I was writing this book, he emailed me this story from author and business expert Brian Tracy. “A woman in her mid-thirties was married with
three kids. Like so many people, she had grown up in a home where her family ridiculed, constantly criticized, and treated her unfairly. She developed a deep feeling of insecu- rity and low self-esteem. She was shy, quiet, and self- conscious. She detached from any goals and from most people, and had minimal, if any, talent to speak of. She was destined for a life of mediocrity because that was all she was taught and all she expected of herself. “One day as she was driving to the store, a car went through a red light and smashed into her. When she awoke, she was in the hospital with a concussion andmemory loss. She could speak, but had no memory of her past. She suffered from complete amnesia. At first, the doctors thought it was tempo- rary.Weeks went by, though, and her memory did not return.
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