Why Change Is Good

 Did you know that we are programmed to resist change, even when it’s in our best interest? Changing to a larger or a smaller home is a huge change and, for some, quite discouraging.

Chip and Dan Heath, authors of 2 great books, “Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive And Others Die” and “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard,” covers change and why we resist change.

 He states that our analytical, rational side may say,” I want a better beach body,” but our emotional side says, “I want the Oreo cookie.”

 At work, we may want to change how we treat our customers and clients, but our emotional side is in love with the comfort of routine. Heath writes that we need to align those two conflicting sides of ourselves.

  Or in real estate, we may want to move to a one-floor home or a smaller one because the stairs are getting harder to manage, or you are tired of shovelling snow or yard maintenance. Still, our emotional side is comfortable with the neighbourhood and even family memories.

 How?

  He writes that you have to convince your emotional side to change, not just motivate the rational, analytical side.

 Real estate and real estate practitioners face change daily, and some let the difference beat them up. How many times have you heard, “I’ve done it this way for ten years, and that’s the way it is.”?

 “Why did they make those changes at ___________? I liked “the old way,” or my favourite: “I hate this new system, a new phone, a new app, a new manager or whatever new gives you a headache.”

 Well, for me, I welcome change because if I stop learning and growing, I wither away & die.

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