Change is normally resisted and not easily accepted. However, it is inevitable and in fact everything is likely to change except change itself. Some people fall in the trap of their wrong assumptions. Rather than motivating themselves. They keep sending the wrong message to their minds. In the process you will see them justifying their lack of interest and willingness to change by any lame excuses.
One day they will say it is too late for me to change after reaching such age or what is the use? and at the top of all that the famous unfulfilled promise of I will do it tomorrow. For them tomorrow never comes simply because there was no true desire to change in the first place. There was a lack of patience to walk on the track of change until they achieve their goals. As a result they end up with constant frustrations.
In fact, they tend to surrender to their frustrations and let it cripple them so they become static and with low morale. They condemn themselves victims of I cannot do it?
Do not we all come across such attitudes? Even in some instances we find ourselves subject to such bleak thoughts. Is not it time to wake up? If others can do it why cannot we? Perhaps we need to revisit our assumptions, fine tune our genuine desire to do it and be aware of what does it take to make it happening? And ensure that we embrace the right attitude in our quest to make the dream come true.
Change is something personal. Something each one has to take ownership of in order to make it effective and transform it to tangible reality.
As we are living the spirit of the Holy Month of Ramadan and enjoying the fruitful lessons out of it, we learn and realize what we could do if we put our minds to it. We learn that the power within us needs to be unleashed.
Let us all reflect on ourselves for a moment. Are not we actually practicing self control? Are not we achieving our goals such as praying all the prayers in the mosque, reading the holy Quran on a daily basis, controlling our desires, refraining from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk. Are not we managing our mouths from gossiping and hurting others with bad words? Do not we all exert maximum care in selecting the most appropriate ones instead in the process of our daily communication? Why are we able to control our anger in Ramadan? And why can we now embrace forget and forgive spirit and fail afterwards?
These examples and score of others should provoke our thoughts and make us indulge in dialogue with ourselves, resume a true reflection and take that checks and balances. Let us start to ask ourselves where are going right and maintain it? and what loopholes need to be rectified and focused on? What aspect of our life do we need to change. This will definitely vary from one person to another and hence, the road map to reach the goal will vary as well.
Let us all set the right strategy for our personal change and in the process we must realize that change is not likely to take place in a blink of an eye. It takes a true desire, consistency, patience and of course adequate time to achieve our dreams.
I am sure with such ingredients we can make our change programs results driven. After all we owe it to ourselves to be the change we want to see.
