Transformation tourism

Here's a nice observation from Seth Godin (read my take at the end)

Transformation tourism"I bought the diet book, but ate my usual foods.""I filled the prescription, but didn't take the meds.""I took the course... well, I watched the videos... but I didn't do the exercises in writing."Merely looking at something almost never causes change. Tourism is fun, but rarely transformative.If it was easy, you would have already achieved the change you seek.Change comes from new habits, from acting as if, from experiencing the inevitable discomfort of becoming.

We don't have tourists on our programmes, we've only got citizens, but the point I'd make is that it's not either tourist or citizen. At any time we can become tourists in our own cities for a while. This happen when we get disengaged from the work, distracted by the unimportant, discouraged by setbacks.When that happens, you have to take the meditation approach - when your mind gets distracted, you let go and begin again. The same has to happen in your change journey: when you find yourself slipping back to old thinking, old habits, old beliefs, you have to let go and begin again.