People change when they want to change

I don’t care about reaching millions of people. I want to reach the right people. In my experience of life until now, I have realized and have been proven again and again by the various people and circumstances that you cannot change people for good.
You must not go around preaching people even though you are completely selfless in your intention,
you cannot improve the health and wellbeing of the people because you want them to have a better experience of life,
you cannot expect others to change because you are giving them all the information and ideas that could potentially transform their life,
You cannot change people because you want them to be happy and healthy.

People will only change if they want to, people will change only if they believe that the pain of staying where they are is more than the pain of change. Because changing is painful journey and you would only take up willful struggle only when the pain of the low quality life is terrible. Many people take some action only when they suffer immensely and something drastic happens to them. I don’t know why but that is the nature of the people.

With this I can definitely say and I personally believe that there is no need for me to labour the point when a person is open to change and who is willing to listen to me and who is willing to question their existing beliefs and patterns which are working against them and willing to work on them to improve life. At the same time, no amount of explanation would be enough and may fail to convince a person who is not prepared to change for good, who is adamant and rigid in their beliefs, who is passively having thoughts to nagate what I am explaining to them.

If you cannot do what you are supposed to do and if you can’t get better when things are tough and sketchy, then you cannot get better at all because maximum number of days in your life do not cooperate with you.

You can only improve and grow when you could stand by your decision and standards when things are acting against you.

If you are waiting for good days, perfect time, skys to be blue and sunny, when all people around you are acting sanely, when flowers are blooming and birds are chirping then you cannot start anything and stick to anything that you already started.

You need to train yourself to do stuff that is in your best interests when situations are not ideal. External conditions and even your internal states are never perfect and ideal to do anything that is painful and challenging. If you rely on external factors to be ideal and waiting for all stars to line up then you would never be able to be great in life. Even if you have achieve anything in life, it is highly likely that you would not be able to keep it for long.

Real professionals and champions, high achievers in any area have high standards and they stick to them no matter what. Standards are the differentiating factor between an average person and a champion. A champion could be anyone in the field of sports, games, in business, in politics, in healthcare provider, a lawyer, a social activist etc,. You call someone a champion if they are standing out in the crowd and outstanding in what they do. The rules and strategy to become a champ in sports or be a champion in life are same.

~Praveen Jada

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