Life is New All The Time

The ability to adapt to change versus an intractable resistance to change represent two opposite approaches to life. One approach creates a rich, fulfilling life, while the other creates a life filled with struggles and frustrations. Too often, too many people spend long periods of their lives with a burning intuition that they are perfectly capable of doing better if they could only change something important. Yet they remain in one place.

Learning to be agile at change is possible, and it can transform lives beyond imagination. Gaining awareness of how we resist change—and why—is an important requirement in order to navigate change well. Life Is New All the Time discusses the reasons why change is so fundamental to a healthy and joyous existence. This self-help/self-improvement book offers insights into those forces that may keep us stagnated. The book then provides tools and practical steps for making change a way of life—a happier life.

Chapter one brings the reader to an understanding that s/he may know unconsciously but has never examined closely: The ability to change dramatically improves quality of life. The chapter discusses the immense contrast in richness of life between those who navigate change well and those who tend to get stuck.

In Chapter two the discussion focuses on how less stress, less frustration and many more “good days” versus “bad days” are within everyone’s reach just by learning to face inevitable life challenges with a constructive attitude.

This next chapter explores different metaphors for time. Time may be a priceless container that can be filled either with precious experiences or with wasted years. Time may be a vehicle which we should steer expertly rather than simply watch pass us by. The chapter connects time to the dynamics of change in our lives.

The next chapter shares the dramatic true story of a man who, out of compassion and integrity, placed himself at great risk to put another man to death. The chapter discusses how core values, unlike other aspects of our personality, should not be changed to accommodate to circumstances.

The following chapter explores the typical traits—such as good health, freedom and optimism—that people enjoy when they navigate change well. The chapter focuses on the question of creativity and discusses how creativity not only helps people to adapt to change, but also grows stronger in people as they learn to adapt.

Now the following chapter discusses how agility at change has become a valuable asset for many leading corporations. Examples such as Amazon, Google and FaceBook demonstrate how the ability to change promotes success. By contrast, companies such as Sears, Kodak, Blackberry and Blockbuster serve as real-life examples of the destructive implications of avoiding change. Also examined is the reader’s personal relationship with failure. The narrative explores how best to regard failure and and how to turn it into an asset.

This chapter provides daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and five-year exercises that help a person become comfortable with change. Advice on how to navigate change by using specific tools is provided.

This chapter presents the “magic tower” as a powerful tool for navigating change. Based on proven principles of mindfulness, guided imagery, and left-brain right-brain coordination, this original technique has allowed the author to help hundreds of clients. Readers will learn how to build and use their own magic tower in order to set major goals and make profound changes in their lives.