If somebody walked into your life and calmly announced: “I’ve got the missing key that will unlock the door to a brand new life”– how would you react?

Most people would ignore it.

The thought of taking a single step that could transform their day-to-day reality is frightening: How would it change me? What would be different about my life?

The truth is, most people feel safer not changing anything — even when they know, in their heart of hearts — something needs to change.

There’s an old saying about misery that goes something like this:

“I may be miserable, but at least it’s mine.”

I think that speaks for itself.

Too many of us think that whatever change we are contemplating is something we can deal with at a later time. So we put it on a back burner and over time simply forget about it.

Nothing changes, therefore everything remains the same or so it appears — except the relentless march of time.

Time refuses to go on the back burner — as it ticks away, the passage of time brings us into the future and the inevitability of the very change we once tried to avoid. Only now we’ve lost our ability to manipulate the outcome of the change. What comes, comes.

We choose instead to place the limited window of opportunity on that same back burner. As the future rushes into now, we have to accept what we could have — somewhere in time — changed.

When you ignore or avoid the inevitable — it always becomes your destiny — so don’t be so surprised when what you decided to ignore or deny shows up one day…

The biggest thing in your life!

-Bob Baran