While I was in Dallas, I had the opportunity to connect with my aunt Harriett. Recently retired, she's been struggling with her life. She goes from being too busy to not being busy enough. She's searching for that fulfilling, ideal, post-career thing to do. She does some consulting and other work and is very involved with helping out her kids and grandkids.
As we talked about her struggle, she noted, "I wanted change, but not a diet of change."
It was a great metaphor, and one that I had never thought of before. A diet of change - meaning that change is all we get, day in and day out. Change for breakfast, change for lunch, and change again for dinner. Oh, and if you want dessert, guess what we've got?! Change!
Just like the phoenix, we need to change to evolve and develop. But how helpful is it if we experience constant change? At some point, we need to stop and assimilate what's changed. Figure out how it's affected us. Try on our new skin.
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