Not settling

Part of growth is the making room for change.

I don't have to make room. I could just pile the newness on top of the old and in a way this is what happens, but it's cleaner when I make a new room for a fresh new idea.

Making room. Cleaning house. Purging. All of these fit -- at different times and this time I am purging. Opening new places for new ideas. Trying out new ways. Considering new life styles.

It goes back to the idea that if I keep on doing the same old things then I should expect the same old results and I want new results. I would like to say that is easier when one is young, but I'm not sure that is true. People like to think it could be easier if . . . and it is the if where, if I am honest, it might actually turn out to be easier now that I am older and have found similar things worked in the past, so I take no extra credit for doing it now.

The older people become, the easier it becomes to settle in, to accept the status quo no matter how unsatisfying it might be.

It takes courage to change, because different doesn't always turn out to be good -- but it usually is not irreparably bad either. When something doesn't work out the way I imagine then the road just becomes longer. There is no reason to believe it is a dead end. Unless I quit and quitting assumes I am ready to settle.

I have settled too many times in the past. It's time to make a change.