Facing CHANGE

Facing CHANGE
Twelve Resources To Guide You
Dr. Mary Jo Bulbrook, RN, President Akamai University
 
Change is inevitable. We all know that. Of course, it is hard to accept and manage the demands required by the change no matter what the topic is such as personal,  professional, organizational, cultural, racial, climate, environmental, national, or worldwide. Change can include health challenges, money challenges, and life challenges as well. So, take time to face the music. Stand before the orchestra and “direct the musicians” to “play with the instruments that now make up the band” that are part of playing the “new song needed” to be played with the “new musicians in the band” to address the “music” needed or wanted by those you are “playing for.”

Change has hit everyone, everywhere and on all fronts affecting ALL. So, buckle up. Notice what the journey is to meet the change. In essence face head on the physical, mental, heart and soul of CHANGE.

Explore options. Weigh consequences of different roads to take. Decide and walk your path after calling on a Higher Power to accompany you on the journey.

Here are 12 resources to call on to help you.

1. Breathe and take in the CHANGE coming or CHANGE that is here.
2. Pause for an appropriate amount of time to take in what is before you.
3. Call on a Higher Power or Resource to guide and walk with you.
4. Open your heart to examine what is important to you that can map your course of action.
5. Listen and speak to others either directly or through books, tapes, dialogue and or invisible clues that point to a direction.
6. Open wide your portal of inspiration and visioning possibilities.
7. Check in with Divine Inspiration that comes forward in many ways both direct and obvious and or indirect through subtle clues.
8. Start building possibilities and paths to explore.
9. Take steps to “visit” the different paths that are drafted.
10. Breathe in again and let go of doubt you will find a solution or solutions.
11. Take one, two and three steps forward on the path of your choice.
12. Examine the light that comes from those initial steps and choices to verify your direction to keep on going or not.

Revisiting the 12 resources for another go around the journey the Change(s) required.