My personality really comes out on a chess board. And chess, in many ways, is so much like life. You have to plan (strategy) and then figure out a way to proceed (tactics). I love chess and am a decent player. I have played against ranked players (notice I didn't say I won). And my personality is all over that board. What it is is I resist change and I do that in chess by never adjusting my strategy. As a result, it often does me in when the opening I thought I saw just wasn't there. I suspect many of you, like me, do the same thing in life.
Before we proceed, we need to qualify change. There are all kinds of change and not all of it good. I am talking about positive change. Change that causes or brings about positive events. It can be a change in the time you rise in the morning or a change of habit or giving up smoking. Whatever the case my be.
I have found that I resist change on a sub-conscience level. I know this because I meditate, have developed the habit of watching my thoughts carefully and have researched the subject quite thoroughly. What I find myself doing is sticking to the way I do things because a change in them would mean I was wrong and nobody wants to be wrong. So I resist change. I'll bet many of you do also.
I have found that affirmations such as "positive change does not mean you were wrong it means you are growing" has been successful for me. There is a lot of literature out there on affirmations. I highly recommend you explore them. And remember that positive change has benefited the individual and the nation for countless ages. It is well worth pursuing.
