Change is often made reactively instead of proactively. Why? People have an inherent aversion to change. They often don’t change until they suffer enough they want to, experience enough they learn to, or grow enough they are able to.

Here are 4 facts about change that are unchangeable:

1. Things are going to change.
2. Things need to change for anything to get better.
3. Things are going to change for better or worse.
4. Things are going to change with or without you.

Suffering is a reality of life. It can be positive if what you suffer makes you want to change for the better. You can decide today that staying the same hurts worse than initiating change for the better. You can choose to learn from every experience you go through in life. You don’t have to be defined by the bad experiences in your life. You can use both good and bad experiences to help you change for the good.

Internal growth is a choice you can make that will affect external circumstances in a positive way. Position your heart today to grow better no matter what and you will ensure that change will become instinctive rather than extinctive. Change for you can always bring new life, new insights, new relationships and new hope for a better tomorrow.