May 28, 2026- Embrace change

Every time you’re tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

~Deepak Chopra

We are programmed to repeat things. We already know the way. It requires little brain power. We avoid the need to make a decision. It’s easy. Have we already realized our dreams? Is our old way working for us?

Just because it has always been does not mean that it must always be. We can reprogram ourselves. We can make a different choice and execute it. We can keep what is working for us and change what isn’t. This is what we must do to move closer to our dreams.

If we were a housefly, we might spend a significant portion of our lives flying directly into a lightbulb, unable to realize that we aren’t getting whatever it is we're seeking. Some of us manage to find several such lightbulbs in our lives. We are somehow compelled to make the same choices over and over, even though we are well aware of the results of those choices. We just keep flying into those same lightbulbs, telling ourselves that if we just try harder or if the circumstances around us change, we will be fulfilled.

Let’s choose a different path that will honor our dreams and bring us nearer to them. Let’s steer away from our predetermined choices with their predetermined outcomes. Let’s embrace change, one choice at a time.