Thoughts on Change: Let’s Go Places

I’m not necessarily a fan of Toyota as a brand of vehicles, but a commercial of theirs caught my attention recently.

“Let’s go places,” the voice says, “Not just the ones you can find on a map, but the ones you can find in your heart. Let’s go beyond everything we know and embrace everything we don’t. And once we reach our destination let’s keep going.”

I’ve heard a lot of different people perspectives on change. My ability to see only portions of the world’s color spectrum does not impact what I have observed. In general, change is a grey area. Words like scary and intimidating face off against words like invigorating and exciting.

When it comes to making major life changes, I haven’t always had as big a say as I would have liked. I wouldn’t have chosen to be separated from my mom when I was still a puppy, for example. But I did what I had to do to make lemonade out of life’s lemons.

“If you don’t like something, change it,” said mover and shaker Maya Angelou. “If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

Ultimately that is exactly what I’ve done. I embrace change wholeheartedly because experience has taught me change is like a light without a dimmer switch. It’s all or nothing. It’s a state of mind, and (if you let it happen) it will bring some light into your day. Without it, we can get lazy. It gets a lot easier to life in default mode rather than living to our destiny.

So I share these humble thoughts on change with the world, hoping that my perspective can bring some light to somebody who is facing a crossroads. Somebody who needs to decide whether to live life to their destiny rather than their default. Somebody who fears change.

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world,” cultural anthropologist and writer Margaret Mead said. “For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”

Good, bad, and ugly, I believe there is something to be said for change.

“Because inspiration doesn’t favor those who sit still,” says the man in the Toyota commercial. “It dances with the daring. It rewards the courageous with ideas that excite, challenge and inspire. Ideas that take you places you never imageined. Ideas big enough and powerful enough to make your heart skip a beat and in some cases maybe two. Let’s go places.”

What are others saying about change?

• Sabbatical | The Happy Hermit
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes … one day at a time | Fasting, Food and other musings by determined34
• DP: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « My thoughts, My life
• Ch-ch-ch-check it out, I’m making changes « Q the Adult
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Alastair’s Blog
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes The Incremental Way | Ramblings of Jen
• Daily Prompt: Leave Smoking | بيسان
• One, two cha-cha-cha – changes… | Hope* the happy hugger
• Changes, all at once, or over time? | The Ineffable and Unutterable Musings Of A Mad Man
• Changes | Angel Frouk
• Making changes: how to make them last « Melanie Ryding – Ryding2Health BLOG
• Making Change Happen In Our Lives | Daily Promptness
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Befuddled | Loading…
• Daily Prompt ~ Changes! | Misifusa’s Blog
• Ch Ch Ch Ch Changing Barbers | The Jittery Goat
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Drama Queen Under the Sun
• Genie in a bottle or 12 Steps program « theseeker
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch Changes | Beyond Beauty Tips
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Stuphblog
• Change is Good | Mind of a Mouse
• Daily Prompt: Chill Out | wordsandotherthings
• Inevitable « Spunky Wayfarer
• Daily Prompt 4.2. Changes – Veränderungen … 35 /365: Tulpe … Fluss, Lisa « OceanPhoenix
• Ch-ch-changes | Random Encounters of an Inquisitive Mind
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes or Changes | Chasing The Bubble
• Do it – Make the Change! « Adventures of an Aussie Girl in London
• Change | Renato Vasconcellos David
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
• Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes | polysyllabic profundities
• Changes | Liquid Matthew’s Development Blog
• rip that bandaid off | thematticuskingdom
• Daily Prompt: Embrace Change | LooknWalk
• Daily Post: To Change, or Not to Change… « One Starving Activist
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « A Western Buddhist’s Travels
• Slow and Easy does it. « ayimas
• The Best Way To Change Is To Change | Wise Counsel
• Change. | jaycee68
• Ahmed and the BIG Change | Rolbos ©
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | The Nameless One
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « Find Your Way
• Changes … Monday Motivation! « Klassi K | Magazine
• Change for good or bad it is inevitable | thelissachronicles
• Small changes are the best (most of the time) | The Small Girl Chronicles
• Cha-cha-changes… For me it’s stress, stress and panic. Sort of. « thoughtsofrkh
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « smittenwithhim
• The Discipline of Change « Off Go the Panties
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Daddy’s Naughty Little Girl
• news title, hurray! « kissanjusha
• Daily Prompt: ‘Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes’ « Olly Parry-Jones
• Daily Prompt:Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « To Breathe is to Write
• Flash Fiction: Ready (420 words) | apprentice, never master
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « Now Writing Every Day
• Daily Post: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | tel-uh-vizh-uh-ner-ee
• No one jumps a 20 foot chasm in two 10 foot jumps. | The Daily Prompt | To Stay Alive
• Daily Prompt – Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Flash Fiction / Short Story – “Elementary My Dear, Watkins” | toofulltowrite (I’ve started so I’ll finish)
• Character Talk: How Nicole Deals with Change | NadiaJWriter.com
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes 5/2 | Family Photos Food & Craft
• Nothing Endures But Change | This Thread Sucks
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes « Code For Confession
• Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | purrsonal mewsings
• Daily Prompt: Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes | Moonlight Reflections

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