People can make change without being change leaders, but long-term benefits are gained when you have courage to transform your attitude toward change from one of timidity and resistance to one of strength and appreciation of opportunity to make your life better. Now you can take an active role and manage and direct it - change your views of life from one of struggling to maintain status quo to always looking for new opportunities and viewing change as a positive force.

All change leaders have this unique quality within them. Change becomes easier when you see it not as mountain that seems too high, but as a gentle slope. In journey of life, each step takes you gradually closer to your dream.

What are some of fears that keep you in your current circumstances instead of changing? Remember fundamental thing you need to do to make a change is to conquer your fears of unknown or unfamiliar.

Becoming a change leader begins by evaluating your life now. Do this by recognizing where you are and identifying what areas need to change in order to improve your life. Acknowledge that you can't change everything at once. What you can do is choose an area to work on and take concrete steps, all while being alert to opportunities to change in other areas you have identified. Mahatmas Gandhi said, "We must be change we wish to see in world."

Copyright 2004-2005, Joel Garfinkle, All Rights Reserved.

Imagine if Thomas Edison had given into all naysayers after he failed 9,999th time in his attempt to invent incandescent light bulb!

Listed here are a few famous individuals who faced plenty of naysayers in ther lives:

- "How long will you go on training all day in gym and living in a dream world?" - Arnold Schwarzenegger's family's pleas for him to get a "respectable" job instead of following his goal to become Mr. Universe.

"Liquidate business right now and recoup whatever cash you can. If you don't, you'll end up penniless." - The attorney of Mary Kay Ash weeks before she opened her first store.

"It's a cutthroat business and you've got no chance of success." - Accountant for Estee Lauder, founder of cosmetic s empire.

"You can't play piano, and God knows you can't sing. You'd better learn to weave chairs so you can support yourself." - Advice given to Ray Charles by one of his teachers.

"You're foolish to try to sell sparkling water in land of Coca Cola drinkers." - Advice given by a consulting firms to Gustave Leven, on trying to launch Perrier in United States.