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Is Change Scary or An Opportunity?
Yes. However, whether the former or the latter is a choice you get to make.
Change is opportunity.
Since change is inevitable, and we can choose to embrace change or not, we get to decide if it’s unfortunate or an opportunity.
How does this work? Change is an opportunity because it’s a chance for something new and different. It might be a fresh start, a new beginning, a shift either great or small, that can be used to take on a new direction or do different things.
I believe that if more people saw change as an opportunity rather than as something awful, we’d live in a more proactive — rather than reactive — world. What’s more, I think our fear-based society would shift to a more reason-based approach.
While I’m not afraid of change, and often am seeking to make conscious changes, I tend not to embrace it, either. I like my familiar surroundings, and though it is not my intent, I tend to be loath to change them.
Change is opportunity. When what you have going is not entirely what you desire, change is the chance to alter it. We get to make new decisions, different choices, and experience new things.
