One Apple A Day #421 - It starts with a choice
In my experience, any sustainable change in our life takes at least four stages:
Becoming aware of what you want to change
Choose to change
Act on the choice
Make it stick
They are all vital and, with different labels, you can find these steps in self-development journeys.
But this morning I woke up realising how often the second stage is overlooked.
To want a change is not enough to make it happen.
You need to make a choice. A deliberate choice.
You need to transform a desire into a clear intention and then into an objective.
This is particularly true when we talk about innovation. Innovation is a deliberate human change to something existing to create something new that has an impact.
It's not enough to need or want to innovate. You need to choose to innovate. To set the intention on which you can act.
So, if you want to be an innovator the first step is to choose to be one.
It's not easy, I know.
I wrote this post to remind myself that it's not enough to want to change.
I need to make a choice.
Now. Here.