A break in transmission

When I started with the idea of The Changeable Co., it was to help shine a light on how organisations, teams and people can use mindsets and methods to make tomorrow better than today.

What I didn’t realise is how hard it is to change. On a very personal level, it can be horrifying, anxiety-inducing and flat-out exhausting. And that’s all without leaving my own mind.

Add to that: old habits, negative self-talk, tasks to steal your time and attention, global pandemics, and the weight of life itself – it’s like they all arrive in your life just in time to keep you comfortably uncomfortable.

It’s frustrating, that battle within yourself.

I’m learning to be patient. Change rarely happens overnight, and yet it can and sometimes, does. It may include small almost imperceptible shifts in mindset alone before something ever outwardly changes. It seems like those little shifts – that battle within yourself – is the hardest part of all.

Regardless of what I read, what I experience or who I speak with, it remains as clear as ever that making lasting, valuable change on any level is as much a challenge now as it has ever been – and is a critical skill in moving forward into an increasingly uncertain future, for us as individuals, in teams and organisations, and as a species.

I’m excited by the possibilities being Changeable can bring into the world by recognising that even though it is hard to change, it is our only course into a better shared future.

And through all the frustration, soul-searching and discomfort of things that hold me back from the bigger task of change, I’m giving myself permission to begin, again.

It’s all part of being Changeable.