Our only security is our ability to change.
— John Lilly
Whether you want a better car, a better paying job, a bigger house, or a fluffier cat, you will have to face one big ugly spiky scary thing: change. It’s not that scary though.
As living beings, we are constantly changing in order to adapt to our environment and live good thriving lives in it. Some changes are massive and difficult to make, while others are small and simple. But no matter the size of the change, there is a common pool of factors affecting almost all individual changes:
- age
- education
- environment
- demonstrations
- trialability
- perception of usefulness
- perception of value
- economic benefit
- importance of advantages
- importance of disadvantages
- perception of ease of use
- time
- effort
- economic costs
- opinions of important people
- influential peers
- goals
- temporal effects
- organizational support
- support mechanisms
- self-efficacy
- fear of the change
- fear of failure
- beliefs and values
- attitude
- innovativeness
Each time you want a change in your life, all (or most) of the above factors play a role in the outcome, in deciding if that change will happen or not. Of course, some of them have more influence than others.
Now I want to change the hours I go to sleep… I have to change something in my life to get out of the insomnia, and I think I know what is it, but it’s too hard to do this step forward.
Cheers
Yes, that change can be very difficult. But with the right motivation (i.e. knowing what you want from your life) it can be done!