A change can only be termed as one if it led to a novel cascade of events, decisions, situations or circumstances.
Letʼs look at some of them:
# 1. Personal growth
You grow and learn new things every time something changes. You discover new insights about different aspects of your life. You learn lessons even from changes that did not lead you to where you wanted to be.
# 2. Flexibility
Frequent changes make you easily adapt to new situations, new environments, and new people. As a result, you do not freak out or lose your momentum when something unexpectedly shifts.
# 3. Improvements
We all have things in our lives we would like to improve—finances, job, partner, house, etc. All of us know that nothing will improve by itself. We need to do things differently to make that happen. Without change, there would be no improvements.
# 4. Life values
From time to time, changes make you reevaluate your life by taking a step back or a pause so as to look at certain things from a different perspective. Depending on what the change is, it may also reinforce your life values.
# 5. The snowball effect
Often we give up because we cannot accomplish the difficult task of making a huge and immediate change. That is when small changes become extremely valuable. One shift at a time, small changes will eventually lead you to the desired big one.
# 6. Strength
Not all changes lead you to pleasant periods of life. Unfortunately, we do not live in fairy tales and bad and sad things happen, too. Overcoming the tough periods will make you stronger.
# 7. Progress
Changes trigger progress. Things move forward and develop because of the them.
# 8. Opportunities
One never knows what each change may bring. When you turn from your usual path there will be plenty of different opportunities waiting for you. Changes will bring new choices for happiness and fulfillment.
# 9. Trauma
According to two decades of research, 50 to 80 percent of people who have lived through trauma, whether it was physical, mental or emotional, say theyʼve grown in some way. The trick is to be open to and embrace these new choices, to notice them even in the midst of suffering.
# 10. New beginnings
Each change is a turning page. It is about closing one chapter and opening another one. Changes bring new beginnings and excitement to life. So next time you get the temptation to avoid or resist the change, aim instead to initiate the ones that will lead you to where you want be.
In general, when looking back, I realize that all the good things in my life are the results of changes that occurred in the past.
People usually avoid changes and prefer to stay in their comfort zones, but I am true believer that once you get the courage and take the first step to change, your life will become much better.
When we look at the situation with our eyes fully open, we are able to see the potential for other possibilities.
That gives all of us, when we encounter crises in our own lives, the opportunity to not merely bounce back, but to bounce forward, changing our lives in ways we might never have thought possible.
And remember —if there were no change, there would be no butterflies!
