Synonyms for the word ‘changeable’ include: ‘uncertain’, ‘volatile’, ‘unstable, ‘unsettled’. All of those can make us feel ‘vunerable’, ‘unsure’ and / or ‘insecure’.

There is a small corner in all of us which likes to feel secure and safe and change clearly goes against that. However, after change has occurred, we very often call it ‘progress’, ‘evolution’, ‘advancement’ or ‘growth’, and this throws up a far more positive set of emotions.

So, it seems that it is not change itself which makes us anxious so much as the transition process that it entails – that step into the unknown. We feel comfortable with the stability of things as they presently are. Now is somehow comforting because we know what to expect; yet our ‘now’ is changing every day.

Maybe it is not change that we fear, rather it is the loss of control that we associate with it. Change always carries an element of risk. Sometimes that fear, that perceived risk, is so big that it keeps us where we are now despite our unhappiness with our current situation.

Then, there are times when we have all been guilty of making changes just for the sake it. We change the color of our hair, we change the layout of the living room furniture, we may even change where we work.

Why? We do it to avoid making the changes in our life that really matter. Deep down, it may be our choice of career which is the cause of our unhappiness, but we will change the color of our hair ‘just to cheer ourselves up’, because that is an ‘easy change’.

Seeing as change is inevitable, why not embrace it, analyze it and use it? Use it as an opportunity to evaluate what your life, and course correct. Seize change as your key to success. How else are we going to grow?

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This article was edited and distributed by Mark Walters on behalf of Mandy Swift, who was the original author. Learn More : Success Strategies