Change Management
by Damien Clarke
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3 Steps to Effectively Deal With
Change
Many people feel insecure when they
consider the thought of making changes, whether it is for
work or personal reasons. Change triggers both the
conscious and sub-conscious minds of most people. The
triggers have often hindered many people from growing and
developing their full potential to living a successful
life. Change is merely our ability to modify our habits
in order to make constructive changes. To transform our
personal characteristics a number of techniques can be
used. Change is modifications within ourselves that
help us to improve our life.
We amend beliefs, behaviours, habits and
thinking by altering our ways. Ultimately, we can
transform our self, which leads one to success. The fear
of change then is a state of mind. Many people fail to
challenge their fears, which hinders, making it difficult
to get through the day. Making positive transformations
is rewarding, since it builds self-esteem and strength of
character.
Here are three effective ways to overcome the fear of
change.
1. Use visualization to
make constructive transformations. Start with
visualizing yourself not as you currently are but as you
will be after the change has taken place. What are
the positive outcomes that have been made? What new
skills and qualities do you now possess? Visualize
the new more confident you and feel the emotion that
comes with visualizing.
2. Stick to your plan
while working through the change process. For
instance, if your aim is to lose weight, then you must
stick with an exercise routine and diet and remain
patient. Research has shown that it takes an
average of 21 days for a new change of some sort to
become a new ingrained habit. Change is the
development of adjusting to something new and stretching
your comfort zone. When you develop new behaviors,
habits and thinking to produce positive outcomes, it
brings you greater rewards and
satisfaction.
3. You must accept that change is a
daily constant in your life and needs to be
accepted as such. When you stay stagnant in unchanged
patterns, routines or thinking it restricts you from
achieving success. You must face your fear of change
directly and make productive changes that guide you to
building strength of character and maintaining high
self-esteem. As people with low self-esteem are
often more afraid of change, which is obviously linked to
the fear of accepting difference.
In order to grow and enrich our lives, change is a daily event
and should be encouraged and looked upon with enthusiasm and
excitement.
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