Many of us have reached the point where things just aren’t as good as they used to be. No matter how well your life or mine is going right now, something is missing, something is not the same. This feeling is not limited to the rich or poor, sick or healthy, young or old or middle-aged. We all feel our ability to savor things slipping, sometimes slightly, often speedily. So we search the past, asking ourselves, what do the children have, that we once had, and now want back so badly?

Why do we all seem to be evolving into calloused beings who are “chloroform on the hoof”? How do we move from the idealism, trust, joy, and energy of childhood to the almost fatalistic stage of just plain old existence?

Sure, both things and people get older, but living lays out an inventory that should feed and sustain us into a higher plane of living and excitement as we age, not make us into worn-out couch potatoes resting at home and riding the retirement bus for our last thirty years.

We all want to get the goosebumps back again! That’s the bottom line of what I keep hearing from everyone—family, friends, my thousands of employees, members of my audiences and my church, even the media personalities I meet. Welcome to my blog titled, “Got Goosebumps?”

I finally realized that real change has little to do with what we accumulate and accomplish, it’s almost wholly our habits, our behavior that gives the goosebumps. People, places, and products are only the tools. So if you are waiting for a mighty change in your life to occur, by moving, owning, divorcing, quitting, etc., you will be waiting a long time. About ninety percent of change is changing you, not “it.”

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