This approach to change was devised by Shelle Rose Charvet

If you really want to change then you must take some risks and develop a clearer idea of the internal structures that drive your response to change. To start the process, ask yourself the following questions.

Current Changes
List up to 5 significant and 5 insignificant changes you have made/been involved in, in the past 12 months.

How many have you identified?
How many are still happening?
What are/have been your levels of stress for each of them?
How ready were you for each of them?
What was your level of contribution?

Successful Risks
List at least three successful 'risks' you have taken in the last 12 months. For each identify:

What was the context?
What were the consequences of staying the same?
What were the known outcomes?
Was the risk self or externally imposed?
What did you believe at the time?
What approach did you take?
What was the end result for yourself and for others?

Risks Waiting in the Wings
Identify 5 risks you know you have been holding in the pending tray. For each of them, ask yourself:

What is stopping me?
What am I gaining from staying the same?
What don't I know yet?
What will have to happen for me to move on this?
What can I do now?

Most of us, when we make changes that are important to us work to consolidate them and integrate the new with the old. The new gradually becomes habilitual and our desire to change further becomes dormant. We suddently find ourselves questioning and we feel the need to change again. Change it seems happens in cycles

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