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The Pain of Change
By Jonah Mungoshi. For once in your life, I would like you to be honest with yourself. be brutally honest with yourself, because the truth will set you free.
For once in your life, I would like you to be honest with yourself. be brutally honest with yourself, because the truth will set you free. But self deception will lead to your destruction. So here's a question I have for you. What significant change if you made in your life since the beginning of 2022, you may not be aware of this. Today, we are on day 40 out of 365 days in the year 2022. In other words, we have gone through 11% of the year. And I'm asking you, what significant change have you made in your life since the beginning of the year? Why is this important? Stick around, and I'll explain it to you.
Hello, welcome to the half hour with Jonah Mungoshi. And today we are talking about the pain of change code words equation do you see? It is self evident. And without even looking at yourself, think about the people you know, whether they've done well, or whether they have achieved average or mediocre success, or whether they are people you would consider failure using whatever criteria you use. Think about those people.
If you analyze it, you will realize that those people are the sum total of their habits. In other words, what they do on a day to day basis has led to who they are today. But why don't you apply that to yourself? Why is it that when we think about ourselves, we tend to think I am the result of the environment of bad luck that is happened to me of failure to get any opportunities, have misfortune of not being born in the right family. And yet when we are judging other people, we are actually a lot more objective and accurate in identifying how their behavior is led to their success or failure. So this is of utmost importance
If you don't agree with me on this, then don't listen to the rest of the program because it won't make sense to you. If you are brave enough to accept the painful harsh truth that you are the sum total of your habits. In other words, we wouldn't work to get by hearing aids, I wouldn't work because all nighters one is, you know tippers role. So therefore, you are creating you on a day to day basis as a result of the decisions you are making and the actions you are taking. So when I go back to that question, when I said what significant change have you made in your life since the beginning of 2022.
I'm actually saying if you are looking forward to 2022, assuring positive change in your life, quote unquote, pundits, on my opinion . And yet you are not making any change or you have not made any significant change in you, in your habits, in the thoughts that you hold in the actions you are taking. Then my brother or my sister, you are daydreaming come end of year, you will be more or less where you are now, if not worse, you will not have made any significant change in your circumstances. So that's what we're talking about changing yourself. And that is hard. It's extremely hard. Most of us only do significant change.
Important Concepts
- You are creating yourself on a day to day basis as a result of the decisions you are making and the actions you are taking.
- Discarding your old habits and put in instead new habits.
- Why wait for crisis for you to change?
When we encounter serious challenges, what I would call crisis or calamities, I can kind of borrow an embalmer. minyama is equals noble Schreuder although Chinook, but why wait for crisis for us to change? And sometimes the crisis is so massive, it's so dire, it is so serious, that it really doesn't give us much room to change. Right? So let's say we wound up demonetised the river or the yoga backhoe one or you maybe who knows realize that what I'm doing leads to danger when you're maimed what a man's job battery geometry, but I'm not talking about that right now. I'm just talking about you living your life and life where you're saying, I've got a lot of potential. I've got goals I want to accomplish. I've got dreams that I want to achieve.
I have good plans that I want to bring to fruition and yet zerumbone forwards. Perhaps you even talk about it, but you are not making any changes in you. So why aren't you doing that because it's painful change is painful, it is easier for us to learn something new than to unlearn what we have already learnt during your equity can man asin as much data does it matter no as kind of discussion series, because attend is the size with which our panelists at that is change. We are talking of discarding your old habits and putting in instead new habits.
We are talking abandoning old ways of thinking and embracing new ways of thinking, we are talking of moving from the comfort zone isn't so what geranium wasn't as fabulous was a jade into discomfort zone where you have to embrace what is new, where the chances of you looking stupid are very high because you're attempting much of never attempt but tell you what, unless and until you're willing to embrace that change to suffer that pain of change. You remain where you are. So stick around with me. And on the other side. I'll share with you principles that will show lead you to make 2022 your breakthrough year as you enhance embrace the pain of change.