Guest Post by Sonja Marinkovic
Changes are perpetual and integral part of our lives. No matter how much we’d like to live in a cosy, peaceful, and secure world, changes are permanent and unexpected. Sooner or later, we’ll have to face it. They come by surprise and leave us no choice then adapting to them.
The only thing that’s certain in life is variability. Because of its imminent character, we need to learn to embrace changes as they come and organise our lives accordingly. We need to try to make the best out of it. If we avoid facing them, we only make things worse that way.
By being proactive, we can learn how to benefit from it. If we avoid recognising their importance, we may live our lives missing numerous opportunities that are passing us by. We may restrict ourselves from achieving new goals and dreams.
But how to overcome the fear of changes? How to accept them and analyse them from a positive outlook? To achieve this, we need to work on shifting our attitude towards it constantly. 
Here are some examples of where you can start to face changes with a positive outlook:
- Consider changes as they are new opportunities. This will make it a lot easier to accept them and form a positive mental attitude towards them. We can all agree on this one – a positive attitude is a necessary ingredient in adapting to changes.
- Visualise the positive effects of changes in our lives. Positive thinking is going to motivate us to take an active role in our lives when life circumstances become unpredictable. Visualisation will boost our confidence and we will approach this transition process more easily.
- Be open-minded and proactive – this attitude is highly beneficial in our modern and uncertain times. It helps us take an incentive when needed, analyse and classify information we receive from our environment.
- Be up-to-date and informed to facilitate the transition process. With a lot of useful information, you’ll be able to make better decisions without a regret. That way you’ll be able to adapt more easily.
- Learn to embrace the fact that changeability is a precondition to a successful and happy life – if you’re stuck in the same routines, there is no progress and no new opportunities to learn and grow.
- Treat life as a never-ending adventure that takes us to different directions. This might be hard if you are a type of person who likes security and comfort. But, life is not like that! In fact, life is an endless adventure, and we should look it that way.
- Write a detailed action plan on what to do and how to react in unexpected situations – of course, you cannot predict all that could go wrong, but this list might be your useful help.
- Analyse yourself, your thoughts, emotions, and capability of adapting to the turbulent environment and work all the problems out. You want to make sure not to neglect your emotions along this path of imminent changes. What’s worth if you cannot find your inner peace? Let this road be comfortable for you.
- Work in phases – because you cannot expect to adapt to everything promptly. Assess your capabilities, determine the dynamic that you will approach changes, and write down goals for each of the phase.
- Identify all the difficulties as they come. Determine their cause and try solving them. You don’t need any obstacles on your way, so that the best solution is to work them out as they appear.
I hope the pieces of advice I gave here are useful to you.
Sonja Marinkovic is a freelancer, a passionate blogger and owner of Upbeat Impulse. She fell in love with blogging right from the start. Since she’s an idealist, she has a strong desire to write inspiring and helpful articles.