Do you fear change?
Susan Elford
I help multi-passionate women build the career or business they dream of so they can feel fulfilled at work and at home. Founder, The Aligned Leader and the Aligned Business Collective.
I learned a new word this week: Metathesiophobia - meaning the fear of change. It's a phobia that causes people to avoid changing their circumstances due to being extremely afraid of the unknown. Can you imagine being so afraid of the unknown that you didn’t try walking a new way to work, or trying a new food, or visiting a new place on holiday??
I also recently learned that one of the top regrets people have as they get closer to the end of their earthly lives is to not have tried something they always wanted to do. The path not taken, the road not crossed, the journey not tried…. These are the regrets people carry with them to the end - the dreams not attempted.?
For me, that was seeing what it was like to live and work in another country. This is something I had hoped to do immediately upon graduating from university. But then... There were student loans to pay, rent and car payments larger than life, and my eagerness to get on with my career. It was a dream I was still carrying around – unfulfilled – until now – 30 years later. And I’ll be honest, it hasn’t turned out exactly as I had hoped. It turns out that making friends is harder as you get older, that the creature comforts I took for granted in my warm and cozy Canadian home are not that easy to come by other places, and that my friends and community back in Canada are relationships I cherish and are, quite frankly, irreplaceable.
But what if I hadn’t tried? What if we hadn’t tried??
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I contend the same for dreams, for “what if’s”, “should haves” and what I’d “love to try…”
Do you have a whisper that’s calling you for more, for something different, towards a “I wish I’d….?”?
I have two things for you to consider:
More info and links to both below. And in the meantime, I encourage you to keep dreaming your dreams, inspiring action when you didn’t think it possible and living your life ON purpose.?
This Month's Blog Post
UNCERTAIN ABOUT YOUR NEXT CAREER OR BUSINESS MOVE? TRY THIS!
The topic of your next career move has been coming up a lot lately in my world. Many of my friends and colleagues are entering a phase of life with children in their later years of Grade School or choosing their first course of post-secondary education. It’s an exciting time for our young people, as they embark on the world with fresh eyes and eager hearts to explore what awaits them and start earning a living. Similarly, their parents, at this stage, sometimes choose to point that lens inwards to question if they are still on the right path for their career, if they have a “next” in them and if not, what is next for them......
While we watch our young people bravely enter their new found freedom post High School, fear is often not the first thought on the agenda. So what is it about the passage of time that makes the thought of change so daunting, or surrounded by fear even?
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