Why Change Feels So Hard - And How to Finally Do It

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Brendon Burchard

Education, Business, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0	If you're not willing to face bigger problems, please don't ask for greater future.
0:05.6	Most of you avoid any problems. Successful people take on their problems. High performers look for
0:12.0	complexity. You have to be willing to go, ooh, to have that next level, I'm going to have to
0:16.8	take on next level problems. That's the difference. Do you know why most people don't
0:24.9	change? Why they don't pull themselves up and go to the next level? Why they never achieve step
0:30.9	changes in life? Because they have a preference for pacing that is less than what's required.
0:40.5	When we prefer life's pace to be at a certain speed, acceleration, or progress,
0:50.0	but a new demand comes in, and it goes, to go faster you got to go harder you better go
0:57.2	longer when that comes in for people they bail they go into avoidance because they don't like
1:04.5	the pace and i want you to know this is so hard i wish somebody told me this i'm to be honest with you
1:09.1	most people are running a very
1:11.6	slow race. They realize, not because they're slow mentally. They've just been running with people
1:17.6	who are barely jogging. It's why when you join like a startup, what they always talk about.
1:23.7	It's always about a sense of urgency and pace. We ship, we move, we don't say stagnant.
1:30.8	And this is not just in technology.
1:33.0	You know, you go to Thomas Keller's amazing French restaurant, and you get to go in the back, you know, back in the kitchen.
1:42.3	And you'll see all this amazing, you know, all these tools and cookware and some of the best chefs in the world.
1:49.2	But they all look up at the clock.
1:51.7	And up on the clock, and right beneath the clock of the most famous restaurant in the world is a little plaque that says sense of urgency.
2:01.4	Urgency. Most people don't change because they don't of urgency. Urgency.
2:02.7	Most people don't change because they don't have urgency,
2:05.8	but they've been running a pace so slow,
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