The moment before change

The moments before a long trip away from the house can make me feel pretty twitchy unless I have got into the habit of travelling out of my home space regularly. Stress hormones seem to rage through my system as circumstance and preparations tell my being that we are about to be made homeless. It does not understand the impermanence of this state insisting the it needs to prepare for every eventuality by taking everything includimg the kitchen sink. Feelings of terror that something crucial is bound to have been forgotten keep me awake for most of e night before too which of course exacerbates the whole situation. Ludicrous considering what a connected world that we live in unlike the cave man life where nearest clans would be several days, weeks or even months away. But human nature is what it is and the primal instincts kick in particularly when things are about to change.

The same is true when it comes to personal change. A change in career or in business is bound to trigger something within us that sets off every alarm bell ringing. For some change is exciting. The thrill of the chase of new opportunities gives a kick of adrenalin that any 'extreme' junkie would strive to achieve. For others change marks the end of the world and the shutters are closed on any bright new world that might emerge from having gone through that change,

This makes me think that particularly when we struggle with succeeding in business that one of the problems might be that we are not failing because of being a faikure but in fact we are not succeeding because there is a part of us that cannot bear to expeerience the unstabke shifting sands of thigns being different to whqt we know. Tthere must be subtle signals that speak to that inner knowing telling it that if you succeed that massive change might ensue. If change is scary then there will be a part of us that will seek to sabotage the very things that we need to do to make good things happen. Better the devils we know than face the demons of the unknown.

If taking increasing longer trips away from home can help to allay the anxieties that happily railroad us into submission when we go on the scarier longer trips then perhaps we can find a way of getting into training for success by introducing incremental changes to the way in which we do things? Perhaps then we can tackle the really big hurdles a bite at a time?