Change begins and ends with you plain and simple, we make excuses because at times we can see our potential and worry that if we change we will lose ourselves. The truth of the matter is the change we actively pursue is the better version of ourselves calling out to us that we are finally hearing in those particular moments in our lives. If you perceive the change you actively seek to be smooth and the idea of it makes you happy, then pursue that change like your life depends on it, because it does in a sense, stagnation is death, adapt or die in the sense that the you that is possible will not come to be if you do not climb the mountain to make it happen.