{"id":1592,"date":"2018-01-29T04:31:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T04:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/?p=1592"},"modified":"2019-06-22T23:25:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T23:25:01","slug":"what-if-change-were-easy-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/what-if-change-were-easy-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"What if change were easy sometimes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read quite a bit recently about the nature of making changes intentionally for yourself &#8211; how to build habits, how to try something new, etc.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of it is about how hard it can be to make a change that sticks, and ways to get around that.<\/p>\n<li>start small<\/li>\n<li>chain a habit onto a habit you already have<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t try to make too many changes at once<\/li>\n<li>you have to do the same thing for 30 days before it becomes a habit<\/li>\n<p>&#8230;that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And then I read something really different:  someone talking about a change which seemingly had just happened, without them putting any effort into it at all.  They were just noticing it.  Like:  oh, evidently I&#8217;m not into X any more, well, there you go, how interesting!<\/p>\n<p>(where the X was something that had once been a big part of their life)<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a rather inspiring thought!  What if change could be easy?  What creative evolution might happen for me without me even trying?  How surprised might I be when my life sprouts a new direction?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WhatIfChangeWereEasySometimes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WhatIfChangeWereEasySometimes-300x150.png\" alt=\"Coloured words spell out &quot;What if change were easy sometimes&quot;. A sprinkling of yellow stars decorate the dull blue-grey background.\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1597\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WhatIfChangeWereEasySometimes-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WhatIfChangeWereEasySometimes-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WhatIfChangeWereEasySometimes-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WhatIfChangeWereEasySometimes.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On changes you have to work at, versus changes that &#8220;just happen&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity-logistics","category-what-am-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1592"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1592\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncharted-worlds.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}