It's interesting to note that his behavior is not unique to human beings. I've heard many times about crabs in a crab pot. It goes like this. If you put one crab in a crab pot, he'll climb out. It may take multiple tries, but a crab pot is not his normal environment so he wants to leave. (He doesn't know this, but he has a GOAL!) Now, if you put more than one crab in the crab pot and one of them tries to climb out, the other crabs will pull him back into the pot. It's sort of like they feel they're stuck there, so why should he get out?

The last word in our "change" acronym is execution. You've accepted the challenge, gotten the help you need, put your action plan together, eliminated the negative, and gotten excited. What's left? You need to execute all of it!

The fifth letter in the word change, G, presented a bit of a challenge. G for goal? That seemed a bit obvious, and this whole thing is about goals anyway. G for grow, for gravitate, for—for what? Then I remembered what one of my business mentors used to say: "Nothing ever happens until somebody gets excited!" It's true, and it's the topic of this article looking at the word change.

The fourth letter in the word change is N. I'm using the N to remind us to eliminate negative to increase our probability of reaching our goals. Remember your math lessons; a double negative becomes a positive. No, no negative becomes positive! If you want to reach your goals, you'll need to believe that you can and you will. There's no room for negative thoughts about it. So, you're going to eliminate, as much as possible, the negative.

The fifth word in our "change" acronym is get excited! I remember an old saying: "Nothing happens until somebody gets excited!" Well, it's your goal and you're going to achieve it, so YOU need to get excited.