923. Why Most Changes Don't Stick, and the 5 Requirements That Fix It

How many changes have you announced to your team or to your company in, let's say, the last year? Maybe it was a new process or some sort of new tool, or just a new set of standards or, or expectations.

Now, how many of those, those changes are still in fact running today? If the answer is not many, it's, it's usually not because your people are, are lazy.

It's usually because an announcement about change covers almost nothing that change actually requires.

Same thing in your own life.

You already know what you need to change.

You've probably known for a while what you need to change.

So why has it not happened? Because every change has a price.

To get something new, you usually have to give something up.

For example, getting healthy means you have to give up behaviors that, that you might enjoy.

Becoming wealthy means giving up some current consumption.

Growing a, a company means giving up an element or degree of control.

Becoming a better leader means you have to give up always being right.

Changing careers means you're giving up certainty.

Ending a relationship means giving up what's familiar.

See, most of us want the result without paying the price, so the change stays an idea.

It never gets implemented fully.

The quality of your life isn't determined by everything you know.

It's determined by how much of what you know you're willing to truly act on.

So today I wanna talk about the five requirements for change that my business partner, Ben Kinney, uh, shared, I don't know, a few weeks or so ago with a group of us.

Five requirements for change.

Each one is a move from where you are now to where you need to be.

And for each one, we'll have two applications, one for your own life and one for leading your team through it.

How many changes have you announced to your team or to your company in, let's say, the last year? Maybe it was a new process or some sort of new tool, or just a new set of standards or, or expectations.

Now, how many of those, those changes are still in fact running today? If the answer is not many, it's, it's usually not because your people are, are lazy.

It's usually because an announcement about change covers almost nothing that change actually requires.

Same thing in your own life.

You already know what you need to change.

You've probably known for a while what you need to change.

So why has it not happened? Because every change has a price.

To get something new, you usually have to give something up.

For example, getting healthy means you have to give up behaviors that, that you might enjoy.

Becoming wealthy means giving up some current consumption.

Growing a, a company means giving up an element or degree of control.

Becoming a better leader means you have to give up always being right.

Changing careers means you're giving up certainty.

Ending a relationship means giving up what's familiar.

See, most of us want the result without paying the price, so the change stays an idea.

It never gets implemented fully.

The quality of your life isn't determined by everything you know.

It's determined by how much of what you know you're willing to truly act on.

So today I wanna talk about the five requirements for change that my business partner, Ben Kinney, uh, shared, I don't know, a few weeks or so ago with a group of us.

Five requirements for change.

Each one is a move from where you are now to where you need to be.

And for each one, we'll have two applications, one for your own life and one for leading your team through it.