Hello Hello and Good morning friends. Coach Kate here with another episode of Minute Explorations for you all! I host this space weekday mornings where we dive into a quick quote, an idea, or some literature to explore the questions and answers it can provide for the day ahead. If that sounds liek your kind of jam, give me a follow so you can follow along and we can explore these morning moments together. 

Today, this transformation Tuesday, we're going ot dive into another quote on change. Change is a very popular subject in this morning space here on the show, because it's such a hard thing for many of us to embrace. Change is clunky, change is uncomfortable, but it is the biggest thing you can do to lean into to also grow. It's also inevitable, so the more we get comfortable getting uncomfortable, the more we also grow for the better. Today's quote is from a wonderful writer that focuses on romantic relationships and how to be a better partner. Jim Burns has been writing about relationships for years, and he also acknowledges change as a component to relationships, with each other, and also with ourselves. Here is his quote on letting go of the past, and embracing change:

Remember, you can't change what has happened to you in the past, but you can take steps to ensure a better tomorrow. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Nothing changes until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing.

-Jim Burns

This quote is a great one to reflect on, because it accepts the idea that change is painful a lot of the time. We think of pain as an acute sensation, but it can also be a subdued resistance as well, or a grieving, or a reckoning of emotions. Sometimes change is about accepting what pain we want to choose or live with instead. Choosing the pain of change over the pain of staying the same is a choice, and the pain of the choice guides us. Sometimes we stay so long in a place or in a state of anti-change because we feel comfortable living in it. Sometimes we exchange years of our life refusing to change just because we're avoiding pain or the discomfort of change. 

So today, what would it take for you to embrace change ahead? What would taking back your power and leaning into change--even if it's painful or scary, look like for future you? 

Change is inevitable, pain doesn't have to be. Sometimes the scariest steps we can take, are the first. We don't need pain to change, but we need to start getting comfortable, with getting uncomfortable. 

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Thanks again for listening, now go embrace that change. 

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