{"id":2046,"date":"2011-08-23T00:41:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2011-08-22T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T19:07:16","slug":"3-reasons-why-change-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Why Change Is Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a love\/hate relationship with change. If things stay too stagnant for too long, I get terribly bored. When too many things change all at once, I find myself desperately seeking comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, my life has seen a lot of change, and it&#8217;s mostly been positive. I am genuinely happy about it all. Yet, I found myself building a fort out of my living room furniture in silly efforts to feel like I&#8217;m 10 years old again. When I was still using the fort days later, I knew, perhaps, I was feeling a bit unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>Have you felt that way? Like your life is a carousel that&#8217;s spinning\u00a0 and you just want to get off? Believe it or not, change is good for you. Here are a few reasons why.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2047\" title=\"face to sky\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/89\/2011\/08\/face-to-sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>1). Changes makes you flexible. Being stubborn and resistant to new things will make a normally stressing situation even more so. Change helps you be fluid and go with the flow.<\/p>\n<p>2). Change makes you smarter. If things never changed, you&#8217;d never learn anything new. And every time you learn a new skill &#8212; even if it&#8217;s just how to adapt &#8212; you are that much smarter than you were yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>3). Change reminds us that anything is possible. It&#8217;s easy to think that anything that&#8217;s stuck will always be that way (i.e., the career that won&#8217;t lift off the ground or the marriage that&#8217;s coasting on neutral). But when you see things change, whether it&#8217;s in your life or some one else&#8217;s, it&#8217;s encouragement to know that nothing stays the same forever.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more reasons that change is good. Check out these Beliefnet features:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Inspiration\/2010\/06\/Inspiring-Quotes-on-Embracing-Change.aspx\">Inspiring Quotes on Embracing Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Health\/2008\/09\/10-Ways-to-Handle-Change.aspx\">10 Ways to Handle Change<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/Wellness\/2005\/03\/When-Youre-Not-In-Kansas-Anymore.aspx\">When You&#8217;re Not in Kansas Anymore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a love\/hate relationship with change. If things stay too stagnant for too long, I get terribly bored. When too many things change all at once, I find myself desperately seeking comfort. Recently, my life has seen a lot of change, and it&#8217;s mostly been positive. I am genuinely happy about it all. Yet,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,26],"tags":[372,373],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-to-think-about","category-thought-to-ponder","category-well-being","tag-change","tag-new"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 Reasons Why Change Is Good<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Reasons Why Change Is Good\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a love\/hate relationship with change. If things stay too stagnant for too long, I get terribly bored. When too many things change all at once, I find myself desperately seeking comfort. Recently, my life has seen a lot of change, and it&#8217;s mostly been positive. I am genuinely happy about it all. Yet,&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Inspiration Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-08-23T04:41:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-08-22T19:07:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/files\/2011\/08\/face-to-sky.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jennifer E. Jones\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"3 Reasons Why Change Is Good","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"3 Reasons Why Change Is Good","og_description":"I have a love\/hate relationship with change. If things stay too stagnant for too long, I get terribly bored. When too many things change all at once, I find myself desperately seeking comfort. Recently, my life has seen a lot of change, and it&#8217;s mostly been positive. I am genuinely happy about it all. Yet,&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html","og_site_name":"Inspiration Report","article_published_time":"2011-08-23T04:41:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-08-22T19:07:16+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/files\/2011\/08\/face-to-sky.jpg"}],"author":"Jennifer E. Jones","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html","name":"3 Reasons Why Change Is Good","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/files\/2011\/08\/face-to-sky.jpg","datePublished":"2011-08-23T04:41:20+00:00","dateModified":"2011-08-22T19:07:16+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/#\/schema\/person\/e680796dc5bb5e0def813d26fc7ac148"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/files\/2011\/08\/face-to-sky.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/files\/2011\/08\/face-to-sky.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2011\/08\/3-reasons-why-change-is-good.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"3 Reasons Why Change Is Good"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/","name":"Inspiration Report","description":"Inspiration News, Life Advice and Emotional Wellness","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/#\/schema\/person\/e680796dc5bb5e0def813d26fc7ac148","name":"Jennifer E. Jones","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/538\/5388855270a03493105edfa3ec01cb16x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/538\/5388855270a03493105edfa3ec01cb16x96.jpg","caption":"Jennifer E. Jones"},"description":"Jennifer E. Jones is a writer, editor and Web producer. She has written for entertainment, trade and inspirational organizations for nearly 15 years. She has a Master of Education and a Master of Journalism degree from Regent University. However, her greatest skill is crushing anyone in a game of \"Name That Tune.\" In her spare time, she is an amateur home chef, a rock star marathon runner and wannabe novelist.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/author\/jjones"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}