Maintenance/change.

The goal of maintenance is to ensure that things don't get worse. Maintenance is getting a haircut, doing the dishes, getting to inbox zero.

Maintenance is what "doing your job" mostly means. Ensure that you don't get fired.

But maintenance doesn't bring change. It keeps things as they are.

And maintenance is a busy job.

Change requires us to invest in new. Actions, habits, systems, relationships that change the status quo.

Build assets. Make things better irreversibly.

Change also brings in fear because that's not what we usually do. That might not be our job.

Some examples:

Most medications are about maintenance. Ensuring that your symptoms don't get worse. Important, maybe even critical.

But they don't make the body better. Changing the body composition, better nutrition, water and sleep, less stress, do.

Managing your finances is maintenance. It helps you to try and stay in the (income>expense) area which is so very important.

But it doesn't change your financial status. Building income assets does.

Are you working on maintenance and expecting change?

What needs to change for change to happen?