How to Embrace Change 🍂

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Damon Brown
September 11, 2024

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Hi reader,

How we navigate change often reflects our view of the world.

If the world is a dangerous place, then change is a threat.

If the world is a generous place, then change is an opportunity.

If the world is a judgmental place, then change is avoided.

It is amazing that every single one of us is looking at the same world. 

We’re just living in a different one based on our mindset 👀

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Change has become a friend of mine this year.

I’m in a new office in a new location.

I’m seeing a beard in the mirror with more salt than pepper.

I’m experiencing my boys, now in middle school and late elementary school, needing me less.

How much of my identity is based on external factors?

And what parts of my identity did I believe were fixed in character, but were actually fixed in habit?

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Throughout nature, growth involves periodic accelerations and transformations: Things go slowly for a time and nothing seems to happen - until suddenly the eggshell cracks, the branch blossoms, the tadpole’s tail shrinks away, the leaf falls, the bird molts, or the hibernation begins. With us it is the same. Although the signs are less clear than in the world of feather and leaf, the functions of transition times are the same. They are key times in the natural process of development and self-renewal. Without an understanding of such natural times of transition, we are left impossibly hoping that change will bypass us and let us go on with our lives as before.

-William Bridges, Transitions

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