“Change always comes bearing gifts.” – Price Pritchett

You have heard it said that “the only constant in life is change.” But are you creating the change you need to become who you want to be in your life and business, or simply reacting to the external events that are happening?

We must do both to step fully into our Conscious Calling.™ When unexpected change happens to us – sudden job loss, health diagnosis, or a shift in a relationship – Shunryu Suzuki, in Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, recommends that we embrace this reality rather than resisting it. “When we realize the everlasting truth of ‘everything changes’ and find our composure in it, we find ourselves in Nirvana…Because we cannot accept the truths of transiency, we suffer. So the cause of suffering is our non-acceptance of this truth.”

It is the season for New Year’s resolutions…and the experts tell us that by January 14 more than two-thirds of people have already abandoned the new behaviors they said they committed to January 1. Why does this happen?

I find there are two primary reasons:

1. Our subconscious rears its head and the momentum of our past, very familiar habits drags us back down to that way of being. To “do” different, we are really being called to “be” different…and that means shifting our mindset, our activities, our language, our surroundings – anything that would get in the way of the person we say we want to be.

One way we can change our surroundings is to create support systems for ourselves – whether we join a structured training program, hire a mentor, meet with like-minded friends on a regular basis, or post intention statements or a vision board where we can see it. These are reminders of what we have committed to, which we can use to reinforce the person we are becoming.

2. The second reason people abandon their resolutions is they would rather play small than really step into who they are. Perhaps others are doubting – or even directly ridiculing – their efforts to change. Or perhaps it just seems too hard to do things differently than most people around you. Knowing that less than 6% of the population reaches a $100,000 or higher income, you will definitely need to do things differently than the majority to reach ambitious income and impact goals for yourself!

What are you being called to shift today that will support you in becoming the person you want to be? Do you need to surround yourself with new support systems or structures to reinforce your new way of being?

Please feel free to share your responses as comments to this blog post, and we’ll look forward to reading them! Our series will continue next week.

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