What is your change orientation?

"The hardest thing for people to change is their minds."- DD Jewell
"Static: characterized by lack of movement, animation, or progression." Webster
"Dynamic: marked by continuous productive activity and change." Webster

Life is not static but dynamic and because it is, we too must be dynamic beings. The major ingredient in being dynamic beings is our ability to respond to change and facilitate change. Change is a natural progression that people will encounter in their self-evolution, relationships, and careers. However, everyone does not know how to respond to change.

When you hear the word change, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you attach a positive or pejorative connotation to the word "change"? Do you resist change? Do you embrace change? Not all change is good, and not all change is bad; but change is evitable. If an acorn did not change, it would never become an oak tree and thus be able to reproduce itself.

Let's do some self-inventory to see what areas you are willing to change and which areas you are resistant to change. Are you willing to...

1. change your job or profession, if you knew you were unfulfilled and this change would place you into your passion and/or calling?
2. relocate to another city or state, if it meant a better quality of life?
3. alter your diet and eating habits, if it meant increasing your longevity?
4. to change your listening and communication styles, if it meant preserving and maintaining healthy relationships?
5. change your church or place of worship, if it meant you being where God can better use your talents, time, and tithes?
6. change unfruitful friendships, if it meant you releasing people so you can make room for new mutually beneficial relationships?
7. forgiving others who hurt you in the past, if it meant it would allow both you and them to be released to grow?
8. change pre-conceived notions of others different from you, if it meant that you would broaden your horizon and scope in life?
9. to accept the change in others around you, if it meant you would have to still love and respect regardless?
10. change your stance on an issue, if that made you appear to be a hypocrite yet it was really a healthy part of your self-evolution?