Many a young men (and old men and women too) have found themselves not moving ahead in life. They find themselves in a rut. They want to change their lives but they cannot. They have been leading a stereotyped lifestyle for a long time. Sometimes they come to believe that their life remains same-boring and unproductive.

The one thing constant, that wise people will tell you, about Nature is that it changes. This is one fact of life that many people tend to ignore or prefer to forget. Change is the only constant process happening around us. It is this constancy in Nature that makes life so interesting.

When we are hoping for change in our lives then we have two choices. One of the choices we have is like a friend of mine, who buys lottery tickets. For last many years he has been buying them two times a week. He is hoping that one fine day he will be a millionaire. This is one way to HOPE that there will be a change in our life. We simply WAIT for good things to happen.

If this man would have dared to change himself, his life would have changed to the extent that it would have been a miracle for others. If he would have changed himself, he could have invested the money that he spent on lottery to start his own business. It could have made him wealthy. But going into a business from scratch needs risk taking ability, creativity, confidence and faith in oneself. EACH ONE OF US HAS THE ABILITY, BUT FEW OF US DARE TO DEVELOP THESE QUALITIES.

The first factor or weakness that is an impediment in our progress is our EGO. I know everything. I need not learn anything. These sentences denote rigidity in thinking. A person with this thinking is not going to change much in life. So his life is also not going to change with this attitude.

A wise man once said that the way to success is to learn what other successful people are doing that you are not doing. We can learn a lot from others around us. This attitude develops with humility. Ego is a stumbling block in growth.

The second factor that prevents us from making progress in life is our fear of change. Change is one factor that is constant in Nature. Yet we humans are afraid of it. Even when we are going through miserable times, we do not accept change easily. If we are willing to change our lives, we are more accepting of it. In any case, even if change is not accepted, it is forced upon us by Nature. It is more comfortable to accept change willingly than be forced to accept it.

Pradeep Chadha

Born and brought up in India, Pradeep has spent last many years of his life learning and working in Europe. He is able to blend the spirituality from the East with the intellect from the West to help bring about changes in people's lives with and without medication. He initially trained as a physician in India. In Ireland he got training in psychiatry and hypnosis.When psychotherapy was considered quackery, he set up his practice in Dublin. Now many years later, he is still ahead of his time as psychotherapy has become a recognised part of psychiatric services. He has presented many original papers in international conferences. He has been published in mostly alternative therapy journals. He has appeared on radio and television. He is the author of The Stress Barrier- Nature's Way to Overcoming Stress published by Blackhall Publishing, Dublin.