Change
“Change is as good as a holiday!” so the saying goes! When my husband uttered this sentence 5 years ago he didn’t realise the implications of his statement or the ‘real’ changes it would make in his life. For 12 months I had been feeling the urge for a “sea change” or should I call it a “state change”. I was born in Queensland but had lived most of my life in WA, whilst my husband had lived “ALL” of his life in WA. In earlier years it was a massive change just moving houses from the Southern suburbs of WA where my husband grew up to the Northern suburbs of WA to be near the ocean. As you can imagine it took some convincing not only of my husband but my children to move from Sunny (which is not always true I might add) Western Australia to the other side of Australia to Melbourne where the weather is let’s say unpredictable, sometimes 4 seasons in one day! I can quite confidently say that we are now quite settled and loving it although we do miss having our extended families close and my husband is still not happy about the weather. As they say the advantages far outway the disadvantages.
So the story goes…..I had lost all hope of moving to Melbourne when the agent who was selling the house we had looked at some months prior, to say….. “Offers were being presented to the vendor and were we still interested?” I ask my husband and when he uttered those words “A Change is as good as a holiday” I truly believe in the back of his mind he thought our offer would not be successful. Seems fate was on my side or should I say “Law of Attraction” of which I knew nothing about at that stage and the offer was accepted. Then you start to ask yourself the question have I done the right thing etc etc. In the beginning it was not easy as our children did not move with us straight away having jobs, university and being away travelling. Now 5 years on we have embraced the change and it is now a part of our lives.
You may be asking yourself what is the point I am trying to make? We are creatures of habit and the longer the habit has been formed the harder it makes it to change. Examples of this are smoking, diet, health, career, opinions etc etc.
This is not to say we don’t want to make the change, we think about it, we talk about it and sometimes make attempts to make the changes. Then it all gets too hard and it is easier to stay where we are than make the change. Some people don’t want to put in the effort they want someone to do it for them, but alas only you can make the changes within yourself after all you are in charge of your life, you have the remote control!
When someone starts a new diet or gives up smoking they start to feel and see the benefits that these changes are making in their life. Ah! but to sustain these changes is not so easy. Sabotage comes into the picture, you may think it is ‘will power’ that let’s them down but more often than not it is the limiting ‘belief’ that they can’t do it! These limiting beliefs they have collected in their past are telling them that they “can’t do it” or “don’t deserve it.” The key is getting to the point of believing in yourself, how do others know what you are capable of? Only you know what you are capable of doing. More often than not you are capable of more than you believe… or is that your are or were lead to believe!
Getting back to the “Change is as good as holiday!”
You go on holidays the anticipation and organisation beforehand is exciting but exhausting. The holiday is never long enough…….For most people when you get home you get the ‘blues’ wanting to be back on holidays. On a recent 6 day break to sunny North QLD in Port Douglas I would have liked to stay longer as it was good weather, good company and good times. Saying this I was still happy to go home and looked forward to being home and doing what I love doing. The reason for this is I made the decision some months ago, “Life is too short to not to be doing what you love doing.” You spend more hours in your career or job than anything else so why not enjoy it! Holidays are great wouldn’t it be nice to come home from a holiday and be saying “Looking forward to work tomorrow” than “I don’t want to go back to work”. This would put a whole new meaning on “A Change is as good as a holiday”. Are you willing to make the change and live the life you choose!???
