#1 - Nothing changes if nothing changes

1 Question
If change could speak, what would it say?

1 Story
“Nothing changes if nothing changes,” he said, almost like he’d said it a thousand times before.

He told me it came from a family business that went south.
“Like a lot of family businesses… there’s this expectation that things will just get better. But they don’t. Not unless you do something.”

He left.

Since then, he’s been a DJ, a dishwasher, an envelope salesman, a professor at the College of Charleston.

Now he’s the CEO of a hospitality company.

“People don’t like change because of the fear of the unknown,” he said. “So I started small. Made little changes. Realized I could survive them.”

He paused.

“And now… I’ll take just about any leap of faith. Because I know I can make it through.”

Then, almost as an afterthought:

“You learn more from failing when you change. You figure out what not to do next time.”

1 Line of Poetry
Change isn’t hard because it’s uncomfortable. It’s hard because it makes visible what you were already choosing.

Reflection
Some people wait for things to break before they move. Others leave while everything still looks intact.

I wonder if one serves us better than the other?

I don’t know.

Oscar-Wyett Moore
Author of One Beautiful Question, Volume 1

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