Something Has Got to Change

Something has got to change. I have to change something.
When current methods, strategies and practices aren't serving us well, how much damage—or lack of progess—are we willing to sustain before coming to terms with the fact that we have to do something differently? No need to minimize the existence or impact of the many factors outside of our control. But ultimately we all must, and specifically now I must, look deep and hard at what I need to change.
To plug along in the name of commitment, perseverance or determination in the face of consistently contradictory facts is neither commitment, perseverance nor determination.
The challenge becomes how to give up on failing methods, strategies and practices without giving up on the dream one is working toward. We must garner the courage to face what isn't working, and instead of interpreting it as failure or weakness, seizing it as a powerful learning opportunity. The need to change, even if it comes in the form of emergency sirens or howling pain, is a gift to be embraced not a indictment to be avoided.