Change to Win

Life does not get better by chance, it get’s better by change – Jim Rohn

Let me start with a story that I know. An art teacher assigned a task to two students in her class.

To one student she said “Plan, design and create a perfect artwork and your grade will be assessed by the work that you show.” And to the other student she said, “Create as many art works as you can and your grade will be assessed based on the best work you created.”

The first student spent enough time planning, come up with innovative designs and finally started working on one to make it look perfect.

While the other student started putting together some vague ideas that she had in mind and started creating different art pieces.

At the end of the class, the grades came out and the best artwork came from the person who worked on creating different artworks than the other one who was concentrating just on one on a quest for making it look perfect.

We often want to change something in life, but get discouraged too early not waiting until what the end result would finally look like. But let’s take the above story into consideration, it is a proven fact that when we start working on something new we are always enthusiastic but as time goes by our interest fades and our energy wears off and we end up achieving nothing. That is what happened with the first student, her approach of making the artwork was driving her only towards one thing. She was only preoccupied with just finishing what she started, never thought of choosing a different path to come up with something creative or different as she lacked vigor.

While the second student was always working on something new, the way she saw things was different each time. She didn’t want to repeat the mistakes she previously did, she grew even more passionate while creating each artwork. That’s because of the “change” in the perspective she had while seeing things and she worked towards getting something extra ordinary rather than just getting an artwork done.

Circumstances will not turn out the way we always want them to and it’s absolutely okay. Embracing our mistakes can help us deal with the change effectively; help us grow as a person. Starting with the toothbrush we use to the career we opt for, in every walk of life change is inevitable, be it good or bad it is always our choice whether to grab an opportunity or to let go. Change becomes our greatest teacher, but only if we give ourselves permission to learn from it.

A little change in everything we do will bring in more zest in life than most of us can even realize. In every day life where we have to deal with numerous issues and multi task on several occasions, our mind cannot be narrowed down in a cage. We might be so burned down sometimes that keeping our mind open to change can actually help us bring some light into our life. Change is awareness about our past and path to future, change is a new hope to something new.