Today’s Transformation – The Change It’s Not

Transformation is not change. Change takes the parts and pieces you have already and simply rearranges them. If you tear a piece of paper in half you have merely changed its appearance. A transformation might happen if you lit the paper on fire. Its essence has then been transformed. It is no longer paper.  

Change inherently works with your past. You take what you’ve got and try to make it more, better or different. And, given that the past has a strangle hold on most of us, change does not last.

Thinking like “When I find the right job, marry the right partner, drive the right car, make enough money” is all about change, and has nothing to do with transformation. Change is more of the same wearing different clothing.

Transformation requires that you release your attachment to the past, to what you currently “be, do or have” for what is possible. You must let go of the past for transformation to alter your future. 

© Copyright 2011 Lynn and Rick Lelchuk

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