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... has not been rated yet. Progress is a wonderful thing- it's change I hate.- Mark Twain Change is inevitable. In today's world, it has even become an absolute necessity for survival. Yet despite its constancy, change still evokes fear and resistance. An example is the story about a barber in the Pittsburgh airport in the late sixties who said he would never change his operation to a unisex salon. He resisted that change until he went out of business, and has since been replaced by a salon. I recently experienced this same resistance when critiqued by some of the world's top image consultants during a convention workshop. Among a number of recommended changes was the shaving of my 27-year-old mustache. I hesitated until a friend said, Isn't change a b___! ' Upon realizing that change ... the issue, not the mustache, I proceeded to shave it off-and the compliments have been unbelievable. My resistance to change had almost forced me to ignore the sage advice of the world's top professionals in the image field. Does fear paralyze your ability to change? Do you resist change even against expert advice? Does your resistance jeopardize your business or sabotage your personal relationships? Let's try to look at fear from an emotional perspective. I've heard fear described as false evidence appearing real. How often that's proven true! I imagine a certain outcome to a difficult situation, and am paralyzed with fear. Yet once I overcome the fear and act, I usually find that the outcome I imagined had no basis in reality. That's why experts in psychology tell us that we have to walk through our ...

... never change his operation to a unisex salon. He resisted that change until ...