“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Dan Millman
Change can be tough. There will be uncertainty and the unknown lurking just over the horizon. Staying the same is always the easier choice, though it is only very rarely more beneficial. Every great discovery and adventure story starts with, as it’s basic premise, uncertainty, the unknown, great risk and only the potential for reward. Frodo Baggins certainly defied all Hobbit traits by setting out on his great adventure. It would have been much easier for him to stay home, bury his head in the sand like an ostrich and ignore the burning world around him. But that isn’t the choice that he made, and if you are as much of a fan of J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic as I am you know how that turned out…
Building something new takes energy, but it is an investment in new experiences that creates the person you were born to become. We all have a FINITE amount of energy to spend. Do you invest it in the future or spend it trying to hang on to the past? For example, think of how much money has been spent by people trying to look younger than they are. Money well spent fighting the perception of the aged or would it be money better spent embracing new life experiences or helping others? That’s a very personal choice, but it represents the choices we make when we are fighting to stay the same instead of investing in becoming a new and better self.
What investments are you going to make today?
