“Changing before you need to instead of waiting until you’re forced to is almost always the best move. Both have mental/emotional challenges, but waiting until you’re forced is usually too late to recover what could have been.” – Brian Kight.

Have you found this to be true? I have.

Change that gets forced upon you is usually hard medicine.

Sometimes it comes as a shock. You wake up one morning, and things are different. You must read and adjust. It’s more complicated because you didn’t see it coming.

More often, though, you did see it coming. As you reviewed your decisions, you knew that you were staying on an unsustainable path. You knew that a change was needed, but you kept putting it off. You hoped the situation would go away.

The failure to change costs you in multiple ways: wasted time, wasted resources, wasted opportunities.

Kight, a sports psychologist, is right about “what could have been.” If you’re intelligent about changing when called to do so, you create and maintain margin. You stay ahead in the game. There is some distance between you and the competition.

If you wait until you are forced to change, you have to catch up and spend resources to get out of the ditch.

Where does the need to change fit in for you? 

Get going. 

It’s time to move.