What happens when you live a life that avoids change? You live a life in which you close yourself to new experiences and ideas and fight anyone who encroaches upon the status quo. You feel insecure all the time because that is the price of not being open to change.
In addition to optimism and gratitude, there are other elements of self-esteem that you can cultivate to deal with the range of change that is part and parcel of daily life.
Any change is a challenge to our confidence and our resourcefulness. As I have already indicated, resistance to change is normal. In fact, resistance to change is healthy. Resistance guards against instability, so the first step to effectively deal with change is to respect and embrace your resistance to change. Give thought to the negative things about the change you are resisting and how you might undermine it. This process alone builds your confidence and clears the way for you to make the change.
The next step to build your confidence and effectively deal with change is to frame the challenge as an opportunity. Change is our biggest opportunity for personal and professional growth. This perspective enables us to experience our personal power and enhances our feelings of self worth resulting in the confidence needed to successfully cope with change.
So cultivate optimism and gratitude, respect and embrace your resistance to change, and frame change as a gift for opportunity, for that is what change is if we cultivate the confidence to allow it to be so.
"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
Robert Gallagher
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