10 Things You Will Feel When a Big Change in Your Life Is About to Happen
Life is ready when you are too. On average we face a big change every seven years. It could be about professional reorientation, or the end or new beginning of a partnership or other interpersonal relationship. It could involve a move. Basically, change tends to be positive. Although changes take us out of our comfort zone, they ultimately reward us with a completely new perspective that we might never have thought possible. Change is tough at first, and requires a lot of effort along the way, but the results can be exhilarating. So be ready when big changes knock on the door of your life. The following 10 tips, which we present in this article, will show you how to anticipate changes before they are upon you.
1. Everything Suddenly Makes Sense
How beautiful is that moment in life when the circle of our previous actions and deeds suddenly closes. How many times have we doubted our gut feelings and mistrusted our intuition? How many times have our second thoughts gotten in the way and thrown us off track? All the better then when we can clearly see that things will work out.
2. It's Suddenly Easy to Start Over
Sometimes we get attached to people, jobs, and things for no apparently good reason. We blame ourselves, but accept the idea that we will forget trying to make progress and just hang on to the status quo. Then out of the blue, something unusual happens, and it suddenly becomes very easy for us to say goodbye to the tried and true and to part with loved ones, habits, patterns of behavior, relationships, and jobs. When the door practically opens itself for you, it is no longer difficult to enter.
3. Time to Toss the Baggage
Are there people in your life who are millstones around your neck? Do you have habits that keep you down and prevent you from getting ahead and doing what you really, really want to do? Has the chaos in your apartment been getting on your nerves for so long that your level of suffering has become unbearable? Congratulations, you are well on the way to finally shedding this unnecessary baggage and enjoying a new possibility of freedom.
4. Problems Begin to Solve Themselves
Each of us has his own personal Gordian knot, which we each must carry around—at least for a while. Each time we try to solve this problem we run into limits. It feels like we're constantly beating our heads against a brick wall. But suddenly problems seem to vanish into thin air. Difficult relationships are resolved without our intervention. Conflicts in the workplace take surprising turns, and even everyday problems suddenly work out in quite unexpected but highly gratifying ways.
5. Your Self-Confidence Reaches a New Level
The more that things become easy for you to do, the more positive reinforcement your self-confidence will receive. Nothing breeds success like success. If you successfully conquer challenge a top challenge, you become practically unstoppable. This momentum has a direct effect on your appearance and your behavior—which keeps the positive spiral constantly turning. Your success not only makes you happy and satisfied, it also attracts other people to you.
6. Your Goal Now Lies Clearly Before You
When everything has resolved happily, we can finally see our goal clearly before us. Sometimes it takes a storm to blow through our lives. After that, however, we see the path clearly ahead of us. Now we just have to take the first step.
7. Previous Decisions Are Proven Correct: A Win For Intuition Over Reason
Deep down, you always knew: your decisions were right, even if they sometimes made life difficult for you. The long-term effects of short-term changes in direction are not always foreseeable. This is mainly because life itself is not a predictable project, but rather a collection of variables to be managed the moment they arise. But now you're at a point where you can sit back and pat yourself on the back. Looks like you were right; keep it up.
8. Stop Denying!
The less pleasant sign in life that it is time for change is the constant demonstration that there is clearly sand in the engine. Unfortunately, facing uncomfortable truths is a painful process. Only when the level of suffering forces us beyond our pain threshold do we ready ourselves to act. Ignoring and denying bad decisions and adverse circumstances is too convenient to overcome. But sometimes you need to start over with a clean slate, so you can reach new heights and be beautifully rewarded.
9. A Sense of Peace Spreads
Big changes are like tsunamis. They are preceded by an unusual silence—the proverbial calm before the storm. Once you've developed a deep inner peace of mind and find yourself in total harmony with the world, the pathway ahead will soon become clearer and clearer. Use this phase of harmony to recharge your batteries.
10. You See Your Future
For large parts of life direction is hard to find, and drifting can be a positive for us. Trusting in the higher power—the idea that the Good is in control and giving up our own attempt at control—isn't the worst thing we could do. But when major changes are imminent, however, our view of where we actually want to go in life becomes clearer. The lessons learned during our drifting will prove very useful in allowing us to take advantage of the coming new situation. Once you see your goal, you just have to make the move to attain it.
Today’s Conclusion: Be Ready For Changes
Even if it doesn't always look like it in the moment, changes are always something positive for us. In any case, they are a step forward, even if at first they force their way into our comfortable arrangements with difficulty and inconvenience. What would be the alternative? Without deciding to proceed upward, we are like the climbers at the base camp in the Himalayas, stuck there while we watch others climb on to the summit. Nothing grows in a comfort zone; this statement is unfortunately as certain as the Amen ending a prayer. Nevertheless, major changes can also challenge and sometimes even overwhelm us. Fateful changes and the loss of loved ones only leave gaping voids where once happiness and prosperity reigned. Even the most optimistic person can find it to be extraordinarily difficult to maintain his optimism in such situations, or even find a way to respond. Many struggle with their fate, turn away from their faith, and lose their understanding of the world. The Danish philosopher Sören Gerhard put this dilemma of our existence in a nutshell with the following words: You can only understand life looking backward, but you have to live it looking forward. That's it for today.