Would you agree that the one thing that is CERTAIN in this life is that CHANGE is always around us? Sometimes change is there whether we like it or not! Grrrr to that!!! The truth is, change is always occurring in our lives. Sometimes change is in the form of a job loss, home loss, relationship loss, loss of a loved one through death, loss of a child through their "leaving the nest", or countless other things. But change IS inevitable! Nothing remains constant in our lives. Sometimes we lull ourselves into a false sense of security by thinking that because everything is "calm" that change won't happen. It can! It does! It will!! A quote out of my book, GOING GREEN WITH YOUR SELF-ESTEEM, "Life is never a straight line from beginning to end Sometimes life gives you interesting twists and turns. It is what you do with the twists and turns that makes life good or not." Melissa Wittenborn So your question is, "Now what?" "How do I move through change and remain true to myself?" I am asked these kinds of questions over and over again. I always tell people to go "back to the basics". Go back to what you know about yourself. List all of your good traits. Read them out loud. Now get out your journal and figure out the steps you need to do to move forward. For example, if you just lost a job, list out what you need to do next. Do NOT focus on the loss of the job. Focus on WHAT NOW! List out items such as updating my resume, get my friend(s) to review my resume, go to on-line job search sites and start e-mailing my resume out. Take the little steps to get the WHAT NOW part done. If you lose your house, make a checklist of how you will pack, start life over, liquidate personal affects, etc. If you lost a loved one through death, write a eulogy for them. Read it out loud to yourself so that you can solidify in your mind why that person was invaluable to you. What traits did that person have that you would like to emulate? If you lost a relationship, do the same thing as you would if you lost a loved one through death. The end of a relationship is a "death" process in some ways, right? Write down all the beautiful things about the relationship that you miss and affirm that the next one will bring you the same....or something better!!! I am good at helping people move through their life's changes. If you need my assistance, don't hesitate to contact me for a one hour consultation. My fees are not expensive and aren't you worth something to yourself? So change IS inevitable....but like all challenges in life, it's not that change is HERE, it's HOW do I move through it quickly to get to the good. Make it an AWESOME day and embrace those changes, because, after all, Change IS inevitable. :) Melissa www.momotivation.com melissa@momotivation.com 630-747-8221 www.winnerswithpositiveattributes@blogspot.com