Many people complain about what they can easily change, and at the end of the day, the complain will not solve the problem. For your change to come, you have to be willing to initiate your own change. If you allow things to go the way they are with the hope that they will change with time, then you will be disappointed if they do not. One way to achieve the required state of change is by trying things out in an entirely different way. This is because if you continue to do the same thing over and over, the result will still be the same.
Every day you have a responsibility to take actions - actions that can bring about change. If you do not initiate the kind of change you want, then do not complain when things go the way you do not want. The totality of the happenings around everyone is a direct result of change. To keep being at the mercy of other people's change is very risky.
I remember what a friend told me about his early days in the university. He was struggling academically and it almost became like a bane to him. In his first semester of first year, his result was not satisfactory to him. He got a repetition of a similar unsatisfactory result again in the second semester. By this time, he advised himself that if he did not change his approach towards his academics, he will keep getting a non-satisfactory result till his graduation.
What he did was to devise another way to go about his studies. After each lectures, he would go back to read and get materials relating to that particular topic. Then he would go further into what the next lectures will be with the help of the scheme of work. By doing this, he was already ahead of the class and in the next lectures, it will not be alien to him and he will flow very well. Amazingly, by the end of that semester, he did exceptionally well, even beyond his own expectations.
The amazing part of this is that he maintained the result and by the end of his academic years in the university, he emerged as the best in his department. All these were possible because he did not just fold his hands and wait for change to occur, he went ahead and put in the required change. This is in accordance and validation of the popularly known Newton's law:
A body will continue in its state of rest or its state of motion until a force is acted on it.
The force is what brings about change. Positive changes do not just occur in a randomised manner but they are made to happen through the conscious actions of people. When things keep going in a negative manner again and again, then it is time for you to initiate your own positive actions. Note this: you are absolutely responsible for the kind of change you want.
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