Change

You know the feeling when you just don’t want to do something a new way? It’s like you hit a wall of resistance so tall and so wide it hurts just trying to knock it down. It’s funny that tonight on American Idol Adam sang a great Sam Cook song, and I really heard that line, “change is gonna come…”

Change is inevitable. The only thing we can do is decide how we are going to handle it.  A few years ago I noticed I was more resistant to learning new things – this was the same time I was guardian to my aunt who had Alzheimer’s.  I recognized then that if I didn’t exercise my brain’s ability to take on new information I would be on the fast track to this devastating disease. My mother has it too.

One of the ways you fight this kind of brain degeneration is to use your brain, and the best way to use it is to push through that resistance to change and to new information. After a while, the resistance disappears and you discover you can indeed change!  Now I have this rule – if I feel resistance I do it anyway.