To Change, To Grow & To Live

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
-- Gail Sheehy

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To change is to grow, and to grow is to live. If you are not growing, then you simply exist.
When you simply exist you are living your life at an inferior level; inferior because you are not living to your full potential. Why don’t we live to our full potential? It is because we become comfortable with our existence. Challenges and risks make us uncomfortable and it is so much easier to stay where we are at in life. The problem is just that; we stay exactly where we are at. How much more could we become, if we were willing to change, to grow, to live?

Erma Bombeck said, “When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say,‘I used everything you gave me.’” You will never be able to use every bit of talent you have until you actually discover every bit of talent that you possess. The discovery comes about from a willingness to change, to grow and to live. .
A New Years resolution is about change – it is doing something different, it is doing something in a different way, or it is not doing something any longer. Nonetheless, it is about change; it is about growing and living

I wonder how many talents you have that have yet to have been discovered. Mark Twain once said, ” "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

I encourage you to make 2011 a year where you are no longer content to just exist. Make 2011 a year where you are willing to change, to grow, to live.

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It's Your Life: Live it, Love it, Celebrate it
MJD