Theme of Zoom Meeting: Change

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Questions:

1. How can little changes make a big difference in a person’s life?

2. Think about these two private questions. You need not answer to our group: (a.) What’s the number one change you would like to make in your life? (b.) Is that an important question we should often ask ourselves?

3. How can you help others to make changes in their lives?

4. Can personalities be changed by the long lockdown period during the Covid epidemic?

5. How might a painful, negative change send a person in a joyful, positive direction?

6. If you were a billionaire, would it be easier for you to make desired changes in your life to help bring you happiness and contentment?

7. How might you change a person’s racist, bigoted, sexist views?

8. How might a person’s views be changed about herself/himself?

9. If you had the power, what’s one change you would like to make about the world? About our Country? About an organization you belong to?

10. In your lifetime, what is the biggest change you have noticed about our society? Why might you consider it a positive or negative change?

11. How might a person’s ability to adjust to change be influenced by early life experiences? By genetics?

12. Can a person be taught to be resilient to change? to even welcome change?

13. Our world seems to be facing climate change. What can you as an individual do to help prevent this change from having catastrophic consequences? Even small changes might help. Or are we all stuck on a Titanic heading for a fatal collision that we can do nothing about?

14. In your own life, what are several small changes you can make that can have a big impact on the environment?

15. Can the personalities of cats and dogs be changed to take on the personalities of their owners?

16. How has growing older perhaps affected your ability to adjust to change?

17. Why are some people quick to offer suggestions for changes but yet unwilling to put forth the effort to help bring about these changes?

18. Is there a question about change that you wish had been covered in this discussion guide? Share it, please.

19. Is there a change you would suggest for our discussion group?

Quotations

1. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change” -Albert Einstein.

2. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude” -Oprah Winfrey

3. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -Leo Tolstoy

4. “There is nothing permanent except change.” –Heraclitus

5. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

6. “Miracles happen every day, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.” -- Jon Bon Jovi

7. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.--Wayne Dyer

8. Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.-- Keri Russell

9. When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.-- Viktor E. Frankl

10. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

11. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa

12. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

13. “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….” ― Erica Jong

14. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” ― Madonna

15. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

The End