et daily we live with change.

Another favorite myth is “This is a bad thing!” You can use anything you want to replace the word “this.”

Even out of what begins as a tragic change, there usually is a pot of gold at the end. I have a friend whose husband was a tugboat operator for 25 years. One evening rather than d

It’s interesting how we intellectually know that tomorrow will be different from yesterday, or even different from today. We know this based on experience. Wasn’t it only yesterday computers started appearing on people’s office desks? And now today, some of those people who cursed the wretched new things, rage when theirs or anyone else’s computer is down! Tomorrow will not be the same as yesterday. We know it. And yet, many of us go through change and feel battle fatigue, look worn out, whine loudly.

As part of this intellectualizing let’s challenge some myths of change. Let’s take charge of our thinking about living with change. After all, within these myths are the thorns that cause some of our discomfort with the change process.

One myth, people resist change, is almost as a rally cry in corporations and organizations.

It even echoes in families. People don’t resist change as much as we fear uncertainty and the unknown. People don’t resist change but shriek, “Just don’t try to change me!” Most of us WANT change. We want to change from being stressed to feeling more relaxed. We want to free ourselves from limited choices and have a greater number of options. If we get sick, we do whatever we can to get ourselves feeling well. Many of us get stuck in yesterday and yet daily we live with change.

Another favorite myth is “This is a bad thing!” You can use anything you want to replace the word “this.”

Even out of what begins as a tragic change, there usually is a pot of gold at the end. I have a friend whose husband was a tugboat operator for 25 years. One evening rather than de

r anyone else’s computer is down! Tomorrow will not be the same as yesterday. We know it. And yet, many of us go through change and feel battle fatigue, look worn out, whine loudly.

As part of this intellectualizing let’s challenge some myths of change. Let’s take charge of our thinking about living with change. After all, within these myths are the thorns that cause some of our discomfort with the change process.

One myth, people resist change, is almost as a rally cry in corporations and organizations.

It even echoes in families. People don’t resist change as much as we fear uncertainty and the unknown. People don’t resist change but shriek, “Just don’t try to change me!” Most of us WANT change. We want to change from being stressed to feeling more relaxed. We want to free ourselves from limited choices and have a greater number of options. If we get sick, we do whatever we can to get ourselves feeling well. Many of us get stuck in yesterday and yet daily we live with change.

Another favorite myth is “This is a bad thing!” You can use anything you want to replace the word “this.”

Even out of what begins as a tragic change, there usually is a pot of gold at the end. I have a friend whose husband was a tugboat operator for 25 years. One evening rather than d

l, within these myths are the thorns that cause some of our discomfort with the change process.

One myth, people resist change, is almost as a rally cry in corporations and organizations.

It even echoes in families. People don’t resist change as much as we fear uncertainty and the unknown. People don’t resist change but shriek, “Just don’t try to change me!” Most of us WANT change. We want to change from being stressed to feeling more relaxed. We want to free ourselves from limited choices and have a greater number of options. If we get sick, we do whatever we can to get ourselves feeling well. Many of us get stuck in yesterday and yet daily we live with change.

Another favorite myth is “This is a bad thing!” You can use anything you want to replace the word “this.”

Even out of what begins as a tragic change, there usually is a pot of gold at the end. I have a friend whose husband was a tugboat operator for 25 years. One evening rather than d

ge but shriek, “Just don’t try to change me!” Most of us WANT change. We want to change from being stressed to feeling more relaxed. We want to free ourselves from limited choices and have a greater number of options. If we get sick, we do whatever we can to get ourselves feeling well. Many of us get stuck in yesterday and yet daily we live with change.

Another favorite myth is “This is a bad thing!” You can use anything you want to replace the word “this.”

Even out of what begins as a tragic change, there usually is a pot of gold at the end. I have a friend whose husband was a tugboat operator for 25 years. One evening rather than d

et daily we live with change.

Another favorite myth is “This is a bad thing!” You can use anything you want to replace the word “this.”

Even out of what begins as a tragic change, there usually is a pot of gold at the end. I have a friend whose husband was a tugboat operator for 25 years. One evening rather than delegating the task of going into town to buy groceries, for whatever reason, he went in himself. Apparently, putting together clues at the site, he must have slipped, lost his balance or somehow fell off the docks. He hit his head and snapped his neck, dead in that instant. A tragic, needless accident. An unsettling, life-changing event. Yet nearly a year later, my friend who lost her husband, has lost 50 pounds, and is having more success than ever in her work, and very recently there have been some new men in her life.

Most of us go through the process of change similar to experiences we have in grieving the death of someone we love. We are after all, human. For a while we grasp on to the way things “were” yesterday. In our own time, in our own way, we stay stuck until we are ready to let go of yesterday. Then when this release frees us, we move forward. We move on, go new directions, and meet new challenges.

Finally, there’s the myth that change is an event.

Change is constant. Change always is, it never isn’t! What we do live with are life- changing events. Getting married, having a baby, open heart surgery, fatal accident, different job. Maybe snapshots of life similar to these give us the view that change is an event. The image of change is more like a continually