One of my favorite truisms is that change is always a threat when done to me, but it is an opportunity when done by me. Many people hate change because it is inflicted on them; someone else is making them do it. Or because circumstances are totally out of their control. (As a bumper sticker says, “One nuclear war could ruin a whole career.”) On the other hand, people change all the time and love it, because they go after something they want – a new venture, a new book, a new spouse, a new baby, a new home, a new career step. In fact, when change is someone’s chance to act on personal goals, it is not even called change. It is just “my project.”