Challenge. Change. Grow. This is the theme at a client conference I’ll be attending next week. I like the theme. It sounds good. In reality, change, deep change – the kind that lasts is really, really, rare. Here’s why.
Change is a good idea, kinda like forgiveness, until there is someone specific to forgive, or someone, something, or some habit to change. Slow down and think. Think about a habit of yours you want to change, need to change, talk about changing, try to change, ask for help changing, and still struggle to change. Yup. Change is hard. Change is hard because deep change, the kind that lasts, hurts acutely. Deep change hurts. Few humans put themselves into the acute pain of changing the relationship, changing their own behavior, or changing their relationship to sugar because it hurts to do so. The vast majority of humans avoid pain. At BTL we teach humans to embrace acute pain.
Challenge, change, grow is good. The truth is deep change is the only kind that lasts and the reason there are so few individuals, teams, and leaders that are deeply changing is because there are few with a pain tolerance for it. My aim is to push myself and all my clients into as much acute stuff as they can take. Not to be sadistic. Instead to serve the aim of their OPUS. Are you getting this? Does this make sense?
Pain is inevitable; misery, is a choice.
Peace, I believe, is found on the other side of acute pain.
What do your behaviors tell you about your beliefs? Kinda hard to look, isn’t it? Now imagine deeply changing that behavior to align with said belief. Does it hurt yet, my friend…
BUILT TO LEAD 