BACK IN MY DAYS OF WORKING A RECOVERY PROGRAM this cliche filled the mouths of many a candidate. In fact, hearing it mentioned was like Groundhog Day (the 1993 movie). Life gets many of us to a point where frankly we're sick 'n' tired of being sick 'n' tired - we seek to change.
There are, of course, massive variations of change required.
From full-on drug addiction and alcoholism to eating disorders to continual relational upsets to you-name-it, the one constant is that behavioral problems are the same desperate place, at the end. This is the "Enough!" Place.
I often see people in their eyes and see the kind of rustic life is a life issue and miracles for her, "You're not sick tail threading from the rat race of life with you?"
And then I am asked to reflect on my own variations of madness, and although in general I read in those days, back to shape their ugly heads from time to time, although usuallyfairly harmless ways. To stay well though still requires awareness and vigilance.
The funny - or not-so-funny - nature of life is we often have to get a little sick before there is sufficient tension of dissatisfaction, causing us to plan for and then finally decide to change; the drive to get well. Some people's tolerance is little, fortunately for them, and so they decide early, and change they do.
Others who're more stubbornly resilient resist longer and get sicker. Some never get better.
Where do you fit on this 'tolerance continuum?'
Are you sick of that problematic issue in your life?
Everything, of course, rests on the initial decision to change and all the decisions that follow. If we can, by the will of our decisions, control what we do, we can do anything.
If you're sick 'n' tired of being sick 'n' tired bear in mind that you can change and you can succeed - it's all up to you. No matter how many times you've tried and failed, you can finally succeeds. Possibly.
Think about your strategy in all the wisdom available, including - only the wisdom of others. I love this word, and it fits perfectly:
Plans fail for lack of consultation;
but with many advisers they succeed.
~ Proverbs 15:22 (NIV).
Get a trusted advisor. Seek help.
You can change. You can get. Do not give up and eventually fail.
© 2010, SJ Wickham.
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