Change is Good: Don’t resist it!

As a solopreneur, changing aspects of your business (and your attitude toward change itself) to keep up with the current competitive environment and industry trends is ultra-vital. But change can be scary, and I know a bunch of people who have an innate fear of it – even an outright aversion to it!

Why is change so intimidating?

• Change requires going beyond your comfort zone.
• Change inherently contains some element of risk.
• Change isn’t easy.
• Change is change. Things won’t be the same as they were before.

Why embrace change?

• Change can get you off the “hamster wheel”. Goodbye “same old, same old”!
• Change can help you develop new skills and strengths.
• Change can present you with new clients, new professional connections & new opportunities.
• Change can take a stagnating business and breathe new life into it.

Entrepreneurs can’t afford to be squeamish about change; all businesses are faced with it at some point or another – and often repeatedly. Just get into the right mind-set about it. Change really is good! Rather than view it as a threat, look at it as an opportunity for you – and your business – to be better and stronger. Resistance is futile!

What about you? How do you react to change?