Embracing Change: When Life Moves the Furniture (with Infographic)

Change will keep coming. The question isn’t whether we’ll face change, but how we’ll meet it. With resistance or curiosity? With rigidity or flexibility? With isolation or connection?

This is a follow-up from my article ‘Embracing Change: When Life Moves the Furniture’, the ninth in a series of articles about ten qualities of a good human - dimensions of character to cultivate over a lifetime.

Change is coming for you. It’s coming for all of us. Whether it’s a relationship ending, a career shift, a health diagnosis, or simply life rearranging the furniture when you weren’t looking, change is the one constant we can count on.

For years, I’ve been writing about loneliness, connection, and what it means to be a good human. Throughout this journey, one theme keeps surfacing: our capacity to embrace change fundamentally shapes our ability to live fulfilling lives. Fight it, and you’ll exhaust yourself. Resist it, and you’ll only prolong the discomfort. The only real choice we have is how we dance with it.

That’s why I’ve created this infographic. Drawing on William Bridges’ great book work “Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes,” these ten insights distil what I’ve learnt, both from research and from living through my own significant transitions over the past six years.

This isn’t about becoming some zen master who floats serenely through life’s chaos. It’s about learning to be comfortable with discomfort. It’s about building the kind of flexibility that helps you bend rather than break. It’s about understanding that you don’t need to embrace change; you just need to keep showing up for the process.

Whether you’re in the thick of transition right now or want to be better prepared for the next inevitable change, these principles offer a roadmap. Save it. Please share it. Return to it when life moves your furniture again.

You have what it takes to navigate whatever comes next.

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