Life is an amazing  journey. I say journey because there is a destination I am pursuing but the roads keep changing.

I have always been the type of person that likes things to be consistent. Not to say that I am the best at keeping a schedule and regiment but I do find consistency to be comfortable.

I have found, however, a correlation between comfortable and stagnant. In my own life, when I am comfortable, my life is not really growing a whole lot. Things may be predictable, which is comforting, but the unexpected is really where growth occurs.

I watch a lot of Disney movies with my kids and I am usually impressed at the message. In Ratatouilli, my favorite scene is between the dad rat and his son. The son is looking to do something very different with his life than anyone else in his family. The son is looking to branch out and become more of society while the dad wants him to stay within his rat community. The son has to point out to the dad (don’t kids teach us some big lessons?) that change is nature.

Change is what shows that we are growing.

Change is what keeps us aware of what is going on in our life.

Change is when we make some of our best relationships.

Change is when our lives tend to reveal something about ourselves.

Change is necessary for growth.

But who ever promised it would be comfortable? I have been going through a lot of changes lately with my business. I think something is moving in a certain direction and I am focused on that but then things change and a shift needs to be made. Then that focus is placed and guess what… something else changes.

I am learning to not only become more comfortable with change but to actually embrace it. Change has brought about some amazing things and I believe it will continue to do that.

So share with me how change has affected your life.