"If nothing ever changed there'd be no butterflies." Author Unknown
Sometimes changes are difficult, other times they occur with little fanfare and sometimes they are marked by great celebrations. Most life tremors fall somewhere in between.
It seems the uncertainty in the global economy is rippling through most households in one form or another. To reduce the turbulence of whatever change you're going through try implementing a few of these suggestions to ease the disruption of an inevitable change, even if it's a positive one.
1. Start small. For instance, if you're trying to save money break it into categories. Start with one category such as food, and list all the ways you can trim the category.
2. Be creative. A trip to a farmer's market can be fun and easy on the wallet. The colorful array of seasonal fruits and vegetables are worth the trip. Remember, you're eliminating the fat from your budget, not the fun from your life.
3. Be realistic. If you're currently eating out several times each week for dinner and every day for lunch, trim dining out to once a week, and pack your lunch three times a week. You'll save a bundle, but still enjoy lunch with clients or coworkers, and an evening out with friends or family is time and money well spent. This will allow you to embrace the change rather than be imprisoned by it.
4. Master a new art. Take a class in preparing your favorite cuisine. You won't miss those expensive restaurant meals when you're confident in your ability to prepare delicious ones at home, and you'll enjoy showing off your new skills. Your self esteem will grow and so will your savings account.
5. Give yourself time to adapt. Even positive changes may cause a little pain. You're remolding your attitude and behavior and there are bound to be moments of resistance and temptations. Forgive yourself for the slip up, and get back on track.
6. Build in some wiggle room. An impromptu invitation to join friends for a Friday night get together may not be in the budget, but go anyway. Realign the budget by packing your lunch an extra day and exhibiting some creative wizardry in the kitchen with a clean out the crisper soup, or come up with another solution that re-establishes the balance and still lets you enjoy your life.
7. Outsmart the issues. Whether it's finances or relationships, job loss or an impossible boss, you can overcome the obstacle by analyzing the choices you have, and you do have choices. That should make you feel better about the situation. Have a plan, but stay fluid. Be ready to answer the door when opportunity knocks.
8. Make a list of your wins and lose the list of your losses. Keep your focus on the positive and revel in those successes.
9. Stay in the game. Have some fun with the changes you're making. Doubting your ability to do it is setting yourself up to fail. Build in some rewards along the new path you're pursuing, after all, you're playing the big game of life.
10. You have the power. Life is really just a series of changes. Each stage has a beginning and an end. Change is certain, and embracing the adventure with open arms is empowering and life affirming.
Changes are an opportunity to reinvent yourself, your life and the way you choose to live it.
Go ahead, and flirt with change, it may reveal unexpected abilities and accomplishments you never thought possible. Life should be about discovering your gifts, and that upcoming change may unveil more of the masterpiece within.
Life is designed to involve change, and your personal and business plan should not remain static either. After all, a butterfly was once a worm and without change it would have remained one.
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