My inspiring and courageous AdvoCare coach and good friend, Melanie Churchwell, signs her emails with the phrase, “If nothing changes, nothing changes.” I find it just another way of defining insanity—the expectation that if you keep doing the same thing over and over again, you’ll get a different result. Something has to give. Wishing or hoping that things in your life are going to change but not actually doing anything to change it is futile, and to be blunt, senseless.
Belief Statement #10:
“Although change may be difficult, I am willing to persevere.
I choose to change so that my life and the lives of my friends and family can be different.
I impact others’ lives (and generations to come!) with every choice I make.”
Change must first happen in the mind. I had to retrain my brain to believe that change was worth the end result, no matter how difficult it might be. After I started repeating this thought to myself day in and day out, I truly believed that change was also possible. Perhaps I have believed it all along; something in my core had to believe that the “70 in 7” project was possible when I agreed to it. Otherwise I would have been setting myself up to fail. Yet I wrote about how I believed at the start that God was setting me up to win! Low and behold, I was right, too.
I have never heard anyone say that change is easy. Most of the time we all grumble and complain in the process. Many of us fight change tooth and nail. But why? Is everything so perfect in our lives that even the smallest change is going to mess that up? The fact is, if we would just choose change, be willing to change, then the process is much smoother, often shorter and yes, typically, easier. You are allowed to cry. You are allowed be uncomfortable. And if you must, go ahead and complain, although it won’t change anything. But know that every choice you make, every word you say, every action you take—it does affect someone else in your life. Someone is watching you, following your example, waiting to see what you’ll do next—if not in your immediate realm, then your descendants, the generations yet to come, will harvest the seeds you plant. You have the power today to alter the course of history for yourself, your family, maybe your friends and their families. Do you want to stand in the way of history? Or be the one who brings it to life?
The Art of Choosing True Life 