Are you monitoring the gradual changes around and within you?

Sudden changes could be dangerous, but gradual changes can be devastating. Let me explain this.
We easily notice the sudden changes. They catch our attention and we need to take action. However, most of us, completely miss the gradual changes that affect us until it becomes so painful that we are unable to ignore them anymore.

Examples

• Gradual loss of hair
• Erosion of trust
• Slow loss of self-control
• Gradual accumulation of clutter
• Gradual gain of weight
• Slow and steady deterioration of a relationship
• Gradual loss of customers
• Gradual erosion of our values
• Gradual move towards becoming redundant

The list an go on.

How do we combat this?

The only way is to be alert and monitor the changes.

Here are a few steps you can take:

1. Identify areas in your life that is subject to gradual changes;The list can be very long
2. Prioritize the areas you will monitor
3. Assess the extent of erosion
4. Develop action plan to arrest the erosion
5. Develop action plan to reverse the erosion completely, if possible
6. Revisit the list periodically

Do it now before it is too late!

Do it before the change attains a critical mass!

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Habits are formed gradually---. A house gets disorganized gradually---. You get overweight gradually---. Eventhough this is the truth most of us want instant change. A positive change too happens gradually. How about daily, gradual approach to multiple, pre-determined change

If you want to change yourself, you need to take one step at a time. I started exercising today. My goal is to get to my ideal weight. For a while I am going to focus on this one aspect in the physical realm. How many changes can one handle together? Too many can cause stress. How ever we are adding changes to ourselves whether we are realising it or not. We make silent decisions that go unnoticed even to ourselves. Do these changes cause us stress?

We develop bad habits like overeating, lazing around, watching too much TV etc which can cause stress too. But the changes are always downstream with some pay off that keeps us going after the bad habit. Over a period of time the pay offs become addictive. Think about it---