GHCL Digest JUNE 2018

Moving On:
David's next step of moving on involves making small, deliberate and purposeful tweaks to your mind set,
mo va on, and habits to align them with your core values. In doing so, she says you can make a
significant difference in your life. You should never be complacent, but should always seek change that
will further develop and improve your being.
This book examines adapta on and advocates for consistent values as the core of who we are – the only
transient point for values is to refine them when necessary, in order to evolve. We can never s ck too
strongly to an emo on, thought or feeling, and learn to accept these as flee ng and allow them to move
on. Only when we do this, can we catalyse and bring about healthy change.
Why This Method Is So Important
As humans, we go through constant change, from our faces changing as we age and our changing
financial situa ons as we go from students to adults in the 'real world', to perhaps having children and
learning to priori se another human life before our own. In order to embrace these changes and cherish
and u lise them to the maximum, we need to be able to be adapt.
We cannot be impeded by our old beliefs, as these old mentali es do not inspire growth and
adaptability. We cannot expect the same rules or ac ons to be applicable across the mul tude of
experiences and circumstances that we go through in our lives. Therefore, in order to embrace change
posi vely and experience posi ve emo ons surrounding these changes, we must be emo onally agile,
shi ing our mind set to the new situa on at hand.
scared of, but the change in themselves – in case they don't like the new person that they become. Many
people claim they are scared of change, due to its existen al, environmental implica ons. Yet, perhaps it
is not the changing of the world around them that they are
Change confronts us during significant, inescapable life events such as death, causing us to face these
inevitabili es, despite that we may want to hold on to a par cular me or state. In these moments we
cannot do this, we are not frozen, but instead we are in constant evolu on and we must use our
emo onal agility to facilitate a healthy transi on from one state to the next.
“Be slow to criticize
And fast to appreciate.”
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