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Why Change Is Hard To Do.

Guest post by: Keith Hanna

Article Overview: I think most people by now have figured out that making a change is hard.

Why Change Is Hard To Do.

I think most people by now have figured out that making a change is hard. It seems reasonable that if I want to change my results–say lose that last stubborn 10 pounds or earn that last stubborn $100K–I need to do something differently. My results are a derivative of my habits: spending habits, selling habits, eating habits, exercising habits. These are hard to change because, well, they're habits. My behaviors are frozen in place by a complex web of emotions. And will power is at best a short-term solution. Even though I know what I should be doing, I don't always know why I'm not doing it. Just do it? A nice sentiment but not very useful. I think Gandhi had it right when he suggested that we be the change we want to see in the world. Being before feeling. Feeling before doing. Doing before getting. So here is a great clue to what the key to the change is: what trait do I most admire in other people? For me, it's passion. When I'm passionate, I'm not over-eating, over-spending, under-selling and under-exercizing. I've been studying passionate people for a few months now. They tend to do what they love and that energy is so enticing that it spreads and other people want a piece of it, ie, customers bringing money. They also tend to keep active doing what they love and they seem to stay fit and healthy as a result. And because they feel so great about themselves they don't need comfort spending and comfort eating and comfort laying-around-watching-television. Passion. It works.

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