When the pain of change is less than the pain
you're in ... you will change.
This is a uniquely MBDi
insight. We don't know where it originated. However, it is based
on Herzberg's Motivation Hygiene Concept, which says that people are
more motivated to avoid a negative-pain- than necessarily to pursue a
positive. At some time, all of us have come to realize that
motivation first starts with a dissatisfaction of where we are. The
degree of that dissatisfaction and the ramifications of the situation
generate the pain that you are in. Only as that pain increases over
time and circumstances (in relation to the pain that it will take to
alleviate the problem and/or to bring about change) are you motivated
and pushed to
move forward.
There is no growth without pain. Change for the better always
requires letting loose of a certain degree of status quo. You
realize then that the pain of moving ahead ... the trials, the
frustrations,
the disappointments, and the failures ... are always better than the
situation you once found yourself in and accepted. Change won't begin
until you seize the courage and mental discipline
to immerse yourself in a certain amount of pain and disillusionment
concerning where you are in the present.
