This weekend we’re celebrating Halloween and if I’m not mistaken, I should write something scary!!
So I will…
CHANGE…
…and UNCERTAINTY!!
Nothing can create fear, in even the bravest of men and women, like the evidence of these two words can!
Many of us would sooner choose to fight a gremlin, goon or goblin, if it meant we could be exempt from CHANGE and UNCERTAINTY!!
You can’t run…
You can’t hide…
No matter where you go…
CHANGE and UNCERTAINTY will catch you!
And if that’s not scary to you…
I’m not sure what else will be.
So what do we do when the ghosts of CHANGE and UNCERTAINTY seem to float in and out of our lives at its unpredictable, yet frequent pace?
To answer, I’ll use the quote we all know, “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
Especially when it comes to CHANGE…
Consider this…
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” ~ John Wooden
Sometimes…we just have to embrace the scary…
Embrace CHANGE…
Embrace UNCERTAINTY…
In The Unfolding, Price Pritchett wrote, “Uncertainty typically makes its threat prior to revealing its opportunities.”
In the chapter he named, “Embrace uncertainty.”, he went on to say, “This uncertainty that we too easily curse would soon be seen in totally different light. We would quickly discover that it’s a precious condition, a catalyst for meaning in life, a force for shaping our individual destinies.”
On Halloween the scary stuff is fairly obvious…
The other 364 days of the year, the scary we may face is uncertain, but hopefully we’ll learn to begin to just walk up to it…arms open wide…for a welcoming embrace!
And…
“Let it be; it will anyway.” ~ unknown
This Halloween, stay inspired…it’s a lifestyle choice!