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Inertia is a useful model to try to understand some elements of our behavior, including our thinking patterns and habits. Our natural inclination to reject the new is in part normal resistance to the effort required to change. Keeping things as they are requires almost no effort and involves little uncertainty. We need force to effect change, and force requires effort. This model offers a lens to help us understand resistance to change and why we fail ourselves when we get complacent.

This is because the feeling associated with giving up something loved - or at least something that is a part of ourselves and familiar - is depression. Since mentally healthy human beings must grow, and since giving up or loss of the old self is an integral part of the process of mental and spiritual growth, depression is a normal and basically healthy phenomenon.

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail. --LAO TZU

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change--change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

Leadership expert John C. Maxwell said, "You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine."

Unfortunately, too often we find comfort in what worked before--even when it stops working. We get stuck there and resist the new, the unfamiliar, the unconventional.

The first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination. Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward.

People are usually afraid of change because they fear the unknown. But the single greatest constant of history is that everything changes.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Now he realized it was natural for change to continually occur, whether you expect it or not. Change could surprise you only if you didn't expect it and weren't looking for it.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

To have a more successful life... * What should I stop doing, thinking and being? * What should I start doing, thinking and being? * What could I do, think and be less of? * What could I do, think and be more of? * And, finally, what could I do, think and be differently?

One day, eBay designers decided that a bright yellow background wasn't cool anymore, so they replaced it with a white one. Customers didn't like it one bit. So many people complained that eBay rolled the change back to yellow. Then, over a period of several months, they modified the background color one shade of yellow at a time, until all the yellow was gone and had been replaced with white.1 Hardly a single user noticed. This is the power of gradual change--it gets met with less resistance as people are only asked to adapt to one small piece at a time rather than to everything all at once. Satisfy people with gradual change instead of dramatic change.

This profound book from best author, Dr Spencer Johnson, will show you how to: Anticipate change Adapt to change quickly Be ready to change quickly, again and again

You could notice when the little changes began so that you would be better prepared for the big change that might be coming.

The first belief we must have if we're going to create change quickly is that we can change now.

He decided that if he ever got the chance again, he would get out of his comfort zone and adapt to change sooner. It would make things easier.

change imposed is a change opposed.