It’s every parent’s nightmare: your child is not answering their cell phone and they have not returned home as scheduled. You call their friends but they don’t where they are either. Frantically, you call the police in an effort to track them down, when all of a sudden your call waiting kicks in. It is your child, who decided to go the movies without telling you first. They are safe and sound, but your heart won’t stop beating fast.
This article outlines the issues that make changing yourself difficult and challenging. The reader is also given suggestions for addressing those issues in order to help themselves.
Sometime in our youth we come to understand the issue and challenge of making personal changes. We carry that understanding with us forever, yet many people never decide to become its master. We avoid change like the plague. We do everything we can to “make it NOT happen”. Don’t you find that interesting? Change is the only constant we have in life yet we dread it and react with panic. We also don’t pass down much wisdom about dealing with it from one generation to the next.