Embracing change with a smile

This is the third week I've been in my adjusted role, and life is good.

As much as I was looking forward to working out of our main office five days a week instead of being split between our office and working on site with one of our customers, I had some apprehensions. Was this the right move for the company? Would I make a worthwhile difference? How would I find the time to listen to new music without being able to sit in front of a database for hours on end? Would the person taking on my database role do well?

As much as I pushed for this change I still had to make sure it was the right move.

When we made the decision to go for it, I was excited. Except it took up most of my time for over a month, between hiring new people for our office as we grew, a new person for our database work, and then training all these people. I smiled the whole time, though. I knew the tough part was temporary, the reward on the other side was worth it, and I could do this. I just had to neglect my Internet world for a short while.

By knowing how things would likely be on the other side of this shift, I had enough purpose to keep pushing.

Not all change is as easy on the mind. What you have to remember is change is inevitable because it's always happening. Everything that seems constant is you tricking yourself into believing it's constant. If you look at the world around you, you can see change every day. Most of the time we don't notice these things because we're not keeping track of them, or when we do they're not large enough changes for us to care.

Take some time every day to notice these changes. Understand why the change is happening, if you can. It will put the changes which affect your life into an simpler perspective - change is inevitable, change is right now, go with it.