How You Handle Change

June 15, 2012

Interview with Ariane de Bonvoisin, author of the book The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More)

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Mike Carruthers:
No matter how much you resist it, big changes are coming in your life - good ones and bad ones. Change is inevitable.

Ariane de Bonvoisin:
Going through change, we're always asked whether we want to be the victim or whether we actually want to stand back up and get strong in our power. And that is a choice that we all get given.
 

Ariane de Bonvoisin, author of the book The First 30 Days: Your Guide to Any Change (and Loving Your Life More), says being able to accept a change, no matter how unwanted, is crucial if you are going to get through it.

You know if you argue with reality, you will lose 100% of the time. So when people get that and just go, " I need to just accept…" On the other side of accepting is where those open doors are - where the possibilities of something else showing up are.

And even change that we think is bad at first - may not be.

85% of the people who have lost their jobs - hated the jobs that they were fired from. That's the latest research. So part of the experience of going through change is getting honest…."Well was that working for me anyway?" It might have been comfortable.

Ariane says big changes are always easier with support.

And people who get stuck are often those who feel alone and don't reach out. The reality is that during change there is always someone who can help, there's always someone there who can close the gap. Get a change support team.