changes: it starts with me.

                     One particular saying that has always struck me as unintelligent is, “People don’t change.” I believe that although each individual has deep-rooted personality traits, we are not held captive by them. Believing that we can’t change encourages us to accept our weaknesses. Countless people with substance problems declare they aren’t capable of quitting. But then it is much easier to continue a harmful behavior when accountability is placed on an outside force like genetics or an “addictive personality”.

When we say people can’t change it is analogous to saying people can’t learn. I have read that when you learn something new, that knowledge fundamentally changes you. Each fragment of information adds to your personal database, creating additional resources to draw on when interacting with the outside world. We face the same temptations to take on negative behavior, but we also build a body of experience that tells us the reward isn’t worth the penalty. Comparing ourselves today from ourselves a few years ago, we can observe that we are the same but more.

                    Truth is that individual and organizations can change but choose not to. Reason is change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused and angry. People want things to be the same as they’ve always been. They hate to relinquish an old training or philosophy for a new way of thinking. They want to do things the way they are accustomed to because that makes life easier. Every time we are discontent we do not blame ourselves but blame our work, our colleagues, our location, husband or wife, or the circumstances we’re in. We attempt to change our occupation or the place where we reside. Only when it does not succeed in giving us a more wonderful life do we recognize that something inside us needs to be changed.e a leader, you can’t let your people hang on to the past. Leadership is ultimately about changing people’s behavior.