Learning your lessons

I was out with someone today who was complaining about how tough it was to school her own brain “It is just like telling the kids to pick up their things!” she complained “I have to keep telling myself the same things over and over again!”  So why is it that it takes so much effort to learn Life’s lessons?  We are anchored to our own doubts, fears and the little voices that haunt the inside of our heads keep undermining our resolve.  Knowing something at an intellectual level isn’t enough to make us feel good about it or ourselves.  We have to get that knowledge deep into our core so that even in the dark of the night we can believe it.

If intelligent, motivated people face this kind of struggle with change, should we wonder that it is so hard to achieve in a corporate environment, where people can walk away from the ideas at 5 o’clock?  You absolutely have to find a reason why the change you are asking people to make is compelling enough to them to get them to do any more than pay lip-service to it… 

“Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.”   Henry Winkler

Resources: Why Change fails

Tags: fears, inner voice, resistance

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