CHANGE! "I am working very hard. I'm already working so hard that I can’t work any harder. I am doing everything possible." The statement is the first sign of any kind of denial. The same complaint is also a clear indicator of frustration and a very strong, dangerous aversion to change. Change, generally, is a mandate for greater efficiency, improvement, happiness, good relations, productivity and harmony. So, while I need not necessarily work harder, I must work differently. The challenge lies within. My competence and confidence lies in the old tools and methods and the way I have been doing things as per my routine. I am more comfortable redoubling my efforts but not ready to change them. I believe, without challenging myself, that the way I have been doing it has always been good enough, so more of the same should be better. Whenever the right time for change is obvious and I must let go the old ways or thinking, the fear and uncertainty of change makes me hold on to the old, even more tightly. And I continue to work even harder with anxiety with the same old tools. "How can my work suddenly be unacceptable? I'm doing exactly what I've always done, exactly how I've always done it?" Growth, development and productivity are outcomes of the processes and tools I use and dependent on my willingness to change those processes and tools. If I am still doing my job the way I always have, working longer and harder, and working against change, every day puts me farther behind. In fact, if I simply do more of what I have always done, I will get less than I ever have. What worked yesterday won't necessarily work today. The tendency to do more of what made me successful is natural, but what made me successful may not keep me successful. What should I do? I must try to fight my natural resistance to change. Figure out what needs to be done. And then…..DO IT!!!!! I’d like to end with this short cliché: “If I want results I have never got before, I have to do things I have never done before.” Monu I am fine.