MESSY in the Middle: Why Change is so Hard

While most people love adventure (in varying degrees), we all also crave a degree of certainty.  We love to rest in the familiar – to stay in our comfort zones.  The ability to sink into what we know and let it form around us like memory foam brings us a sense of peace and well-being.  I call this “memory thought”, and while we would all love to drift off in our memory thoughts and dwell there, change happens.  It is inevitable.  It is also, in fact, often necessary.

Sometimes the changes we...