In a time where we have become used to  instant gratifications, it is easier to change than to grow. Change is instant, where as growth is an ongoing journey.  Maybe that is the reason more and more people prefer to change than to grow.   Change is a more deliberate act, giving us instant and visible results. Growth is a summary of our choices and life’s journey. It is not as easily measurable, nor is it as instantly gratifying.

Literally speaking, Change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or substitution of one thing for another. Growth is  progressive development. It is something that has increased and developed in a gradual beginning or coming forth been attained in the process of growing.

I think growth is a process and a goal on its own. It is always relative to its beginning, and therefore anchored to it. Making it a gradual and a more grounded process. Change I believe is the path to growth .You have to make the right changes in order to chose the right path.  Change cannot be a goal in itself. Since change involves some kind of transformation it is always isolated from its beginning and not in sight of it’s goal.

John Maxwell said “If we are growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone”. Growth only happens when we are comfortable enough to be pushed out of our comfort zones. Where as change happens when we are not comfortable with ourselves to start with.

These  two words are so closely related and intertwined,  yet they are so different. Change is a key ingredient for growth, but more and more of us are valuing change as a goal in itself. We want to change our image, our clothes, our style, our cars, our lifestyles, our homes, our looks and we believe in the process we can induce growth.  We are so busy changing that somewhere we have stopped growing.