Be The Change

By Dan Grant
[Trainer Talk]
What’s keeping you from living your best life?  Dan Grant has some uplifting words to share.
Life sure is an interesting journey, isn’t it?  We live, we learn and then we leave.  That part in between being born and dying gives us a chance to do a lot of great things, but for the most part I just see it giving people mediocre, tough and stressful times.  That just shouldn’t be.  Were you born to just sit through it and never really accomplishing anything?  Do you feel that eating unhealthy foods or doing things you know are bad for you are worth the potential early grave?

I could ask you many more questions to make you think, but the point of this whole article is this that you can be the change that makes your world amazing and your life worth experiencing.

My Personal Experience

At one point in my life, I was clinically depressed.  My parents were just too over-protective of me.  People didn’t understand where I was coming from.  Girls were hard to understand.  Friends disagreed with my ideas and goals.  My baseball coach was making me angry.  I was just really unhappy with my situation.

Then I started working on myself.  My issues got me incredibly interested in the world of self-growth and personal development.  I changed my philosophy and values (something I still continue doing to this day).  I learned my depression wasn’t a lack of serotonin; it was my attitude.  I learned that my personal philosophy was the way it was because of what I learned from my parent’s thoughts on the world, the educational system and generally the world at large.

The day that changed my life was when I thought I was about to die in my bed.  A day that I will never forget and I’m grateful for that.  On that day, I vowed to myself that things were going to change right then and I wrote down what I would no longer accept in my life.  I changed my values.  I changed my personal philosophy.

Then The Amazing Happened

The more I learned and worked on myself the happier and more successful I got.  That’s when I realized something life changing, something most people don’t realize.

You see, I am happier than ever.  I’m more successful than ever.  I’m at the opposite end of the spectrum from depression.  But the funny thing about it is that my parents are still too overprotective of me.  People still don’t understand where I’m coming from.  Girls are still hard to understand (and trust me, I’ve been trying really hard).  Friends still disagree with my ideas and goals.  And I’m sure I’m still angry with my coach (sorry coach, it’s just natural I think).

The point is that you need to stop blaming your problems, whatever they may be, on your surrounding circumstances.  It’s about you and only you.  You can be the change.  You can change you and create a better you and therefore a better life.
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