After asking my friend Brittany to blog about why change scares her and reading her post, I figured I'll blog about the other side of the coin, my side isn't scary. Let me start by saying that before I read Britt's blog I didn't think I encountered too many changes. However, now I see that I over look a lot of the changes in my life without giving it a second thought. I don't over think things. I like to paint my nails a different color every week. Whenever I have the chance to change my running route, I take it! Trying new places and things excites me. My health changes pretty frequently, but I expect it and accept it. For the past six years, I've had a new school schedule every semester with new material, new professors, new classmates.
I think the biggest change in my life is happening right now with me getting a new job. This change excites me! Sure, I may have some nervous jitters, but I'm not afraid of it. I wanted this, so I chased the change I wanted to see. Perhaps I'm optimistic in that I believe I can control most of the changes in my life without letting them control me.
I recognize that not all change is good. When Steve Jobs got fired from Apple, he went on to create Pixar. Being fired from Apple seems like the worst thing that could happen to the founder of the company, but Mr. Jobs made the best of it and didn't let it stop him from chasing his dreams.
I wrote a poem many years ago titled: Chance to Chase:
Quitting isn't a bad thing
If it gets us closer
to our dreams
Might be hard to turn
the page
If we never take the
chance to chase
But if we chase the
change we want to see
We might get the
chance to chase our dreams
Strangely enough, I use this poem as a rule of thumb when deciding to quit. I've thought about quitting school many times when health issues bogged me down, but quitting would not get me closer to my dreams so I always decided to stick with it. When deciding to quit my current job and take the job with Mazda, I quit because I believe the job with Mazda will get me closer to my dreams.
