Einstein is famously quoted as saying, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results (apparently it’s not an Einstein quote). The quote is true and powerful even if it’s not by the genius. There is a level of insanity to doing the same thing constantly and expecting a suddenly different outcome.
We want to be healthy but we wont change our eating habits or start exercising. We want our partner to know what’s going on in our heads but we wont communicate then end up completely angry cause by now they should just “get it”.
Nothing changes if we don’t change. At times the situation we are in seems extremely daunting and overwhelming that we don’t know where to start. So much pressure from the world that one step out of our current position in our box could send our life into a spiral. All the external pressure keeps us neatly folded in our box.
So what I’ve found I usually do is I try to change the external pressure. I just need to be in a new house for this to work, or I need a gym that’s affordable and close to home if I’m going to get on this diet and start getting into shape. Or even waiting for external validation before doing something I am passionate about.
Unless I build a gym close to home I have no control over where gyms are found and how much they cost. So I put on my work out gear and started working out from outside. I’ve done a variation of exercises from running, to tread mills and gym, I even started trying calisthenics but I truly fell in love with Yoga. This has been a 10 plus year journey to finally settle into something this liberating. It wouldn’t have worked out so well had I given up on gym life and workouts altogether 10 odd years ago.
I didn’t have the money or facilities but I wanted to keep fit. So I started using what I had, my body. I decided if I couldn’t go to the gym or trainer I would become my own trainer. I DECIDED. That generally tends to be the difference between nothing changing and change happening. A choice.
No one should force a choice upon another because the minds ability to choose and the free will to do that sends literal shocks through the body and mind that require us to be accountable to our choice. I didn’t work out daily or even weekly. At times I got lazy or busy and I just couldn’t make time. My mind would constantly claw at my being reminding me of how I was wasting my word.
Nothing will change, if we don’t change. At times we will be blessed to change the situation or we will be blessed to change our perception of the situation.
Nothing will change, if we don’t change isn’t a war cry to restructure our entire life but it is a cry to change one thing in our lives that could lead us to the eventual snowball effect.
Seems like such common place knowledge, but in the world of today common sense isn’t common. But in retrospect we can all agree that nothing will change if we keep doing the same thing.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself
– Rumi
Change doesn’t have to be all at once, its gradual just as a journey is, step by step, building to the thousand miles we hope to reach. How we see the world will affect how we see change and life in general.
Take a deep breath, no pressure, and finding one small thing you’ve been meaning to switch up and start there. Remember Nothing changes, if Nothing changes.
Until tomorrow take care, be patient with yourself and change 1 step at a time as you transform into the beautiful butterfly you have always been.
Be you fully.
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