Change…

Do you ever wonder what motivates change? I know that most of the time I change because I am bloody uncomfortable and I want to get comfortable. But every once in a while, and granted it is a rare occasion, I will see something I think is so amazing, that I wanna do it too. I am collecting people who influence me in this way and I have to decided to start my very own run and gun talk show. I have started interviewing the people who’s stories amaze and excite me. People who are doing things I think are beautiful, doing that which I never thought was possible, but because of them, I now strive to achieve.

I will post my first interview tomorrow! I think you all will dig it! It is the next phase of my dinner party, inviting people over that inspire me and mingling! Sharing, enjoying, and creating! Oh my!

Some of the peeps I will be introducing you all too have sites and blogs of their own and they will be interviewing me as well. So, when you check out their stuff, you can see what they wanted to know about me. Sort of a cross pollination deal!
So come back tomorrow and see what I got.

Oh… And a question to ponder. What inspires change in you? What moves you to push harder and grow faster?

xo
allison

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  • taylor nikole

    personally I love the adrenaline rush in doing something im so afraid to do… not because I want to follow others… I just wnt a full experience before I die :)
    I have this need to experience anything and everything and test my limits.

    what inspires me to change? my surroundings…. th people I look up to most… but I also change for myself… change who I am in a way to make myself believe I m person who has courage to do something… therefore in the moment that I need it I will have it.

    does that make sense?
    haha

  • Melissa

    Hi. What you do is awesome, I like tha idea of you interviewing people around so…..I believe that what inspires me are the awesome and wonderful people I have around:my parents,my sister,my friends…..They are really supporting people and they all do things I wanna do in the future, not exactly what they do, I took them as a big model to follow, their love for what they do inspires me a lot, makes me wanna jump into the road and follow and also create a beautiful future. Those people are my inspiration, that’s why I always am looking and pushing harder for a great future. I love the idea of have their support and love.
    Bye,hava nice day.Melissa.

  • Amanda

    Usually, change is something I try to avoid like the plague. I admire people who embrace change and wish I were more like them. Can’t wait to read your interviews. Not quite sure what a run and gun talk show is but I look forward to finding out!

  • Melissa

    I think if someone changes from bad person to good one I consider that something indredible to do, know that it’s really hard for someone who is “bad” is trying to change having no one by your side, just thinking about how miserable you feel doing those horrible things…..I thinks that’s just amazing…..Changes are great if we talk about good changes….but when good turns to bad…..all we have to do is to have support from something or someone….or if we have a friend or family that is getting for a bad situation we have to be there for that person, helping this person not to turning out bad, helping let him/her know that you are by his/her sida.
    Changes are great challenges, and we are here to make feel them….good or bad….you always will need someone by your side….and that someone will always need you for help and support.
    Bye,Melissa.

  • jennygirl

    What inspires me to change is when I think I can do something better, more effectively. Usually involves teaching. Sometimes personal life. It is rarely a “I COULD do this better” type of thing…is important enough to be something that MUST be improved or else my health, or a child’s education, or my own children will somehow suffer if I DON’T change. Otherwise I enjoy my ruts!

  • Michelle

    The interviewing and sharing sounds awesome! I can’t wait! I think will be a very good thing.

    Change… change can seem so scary to me sometimes. But once I take a risk and do something I normally would not, I find I usually enjoy it, wonder why I didn’t try it before, and tell myself that taking chances can be beneficial. After I break through my shell, I find that I really do want to get out there, live, and enjoy everything I possibly can.

    When I’m so afraid to change, I try to think of what’s holding me back. And I weigh what’s holding me back with what could push me forward if I let it. I have a lot admiration for those who can embrace and accept change easier than I.

    What inspires me to change? Plenty of things: the people I love and look up to, thinking of what I could be once I did change, the possibility of a better me, knowing I can help shove my future in the direction I want it to go, and believing I can actually change.

    It’s really just letting go of being scared of what other people with think or say, of not being able to change at all, of not being able to change to what you want, and of risking what you already have.

    But if you’re to scared to change, everything will stay as it is. No variety or spice in your life. That, or someone could change it for you, and not in the way you’d like.

    … Thank you for the question. I might have just inspired myself and given myself the push I need to change something I know I’ve been needing to.

    Sometimes all we need is a little shove!

  • viviane

    well … change is always good, but I try to avoid changes … probably because he used the same routine! but if a change get better then yes … ;)
    that I move to grow faster? I think it is the friendship!

    I am excited and anxious to read your interviews! :)

    Love you! good Friday! :)
    Vivi Brazil

  • http://deleted Diane Lizeth Olivo

    What inspires change in me is… The need to be different from everybody else and try and change the world, because “You can’t change the world” Is a lie. I’ve witnessed it. I’ve inspired classmates before in my highschool, to strive to be better, to Go to school and be the bets they can be, and instead to go school, chin up, and impress! Not for others to impress you. And I think that the reactions I get from my classmates after them sharing their …success from taking my advice, just inspires me to keep going and spread the word a little bit more. “If I have helped somebody in life, then my life is not in vein.” :) That’s it for now… Ciao Aly.

    Lizeth

  • Darwin

    I have always been a person who believes in personal progression.

    Meaning that I should not only be better this year than I was last year…but better this week as oppossed to last week…and be better today than I was yesterday.

    And of course to not have recreational anxiety about it. It is all mostly baby steps and new discoveries and experiences…exploring and trying to develop talents…learn new skills and improve on whatever I have…

    And there is ALWAYS opportunity to learn to love more.

  • http://bubbalou.deviantart.com Lou

    anything can inspire change. looking at the right random object. noticing a theme in a movie or tv show. conversations. books. illness, death, and even birth.

    but whether or not we decide to ACTUALLY change is up to each person. I can want to change. I can TRY to change. but that doesn’t mean I will. there has to be EFFORT and AMBITION.

    Personally, what inspires change in myself is realizing my own potential and wanting to achieve it. but attaining one’s own potential is like constantly dividing. you can get closer and closer and closer to the ultimate goal, but it’s nothing more than an ideal situation. ideal is never met. ideal is utopia (if you will). I want to be the best I can. this is why we all learn. when we stop learning, we stop growing. stopping growth is to stop yourself from going up in the world. then you’re just stuck.

    I want to change to prevent getting myself stuck in life. not just my skills, but also ethically/morally, spiritually, and socially.

    what do I want to change in myself, specifically? everything. not a total change, but more like improvements. more ambition, being less lazy, noticing more in life that I’m missing out on. things like that. oh yeah. and getting into shape. :P

  • Maria

    I admit that sometimes I don’t like change. Sometimes it scares me. I’m so comfortable in where I am that I wouldn’t want anything to change. BUT that’s some days! OTHER days I’m totally motivated to change and be different. Like some days I want to be different and stand out and others I just want mesh into the crowd until I’m invicible you know? But I DO like change. I see it as something that no one can control, because there will come a time where life will take a turn you don’t expect and suddenly your life will turn upside down. Change is something that we can let happen or it catches up with us and pushes us to change.

    XoXo

    Maria

  • http://deleted Robin

    I guess I get inspired to change, to do better and strive to be a better person through stories that involve people both historical, current and even fictional that connect with me on an emotional level!

    Be it funny, sad, epic, tragic, serious or just plain sillly what it is I must “move” me, ie make me laugh, cry, anger and comfort me.

    It can be events in the people I interact with during my day or by watching the news, watching the olympics, reading a book (and blogs), listening to a song or even a fantasy tv show.

    They all impact on what I wish to change in my own life, and hope they encourage me to make the most of my life.

    They help me feel I have EARNED the right to have been so LUCKY in the life I lead and the good friends and family I have around me and the freedoms and material things I take for granted far too often.

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  • taylor nikole

    like veronica mars said
    “sometimes change has a way of walking up to me and punching me in the face”
    well… something like that…. im paraphrasing :)
    haha

  • http://www.myspace.com/analfabeta Gnome

    “What inspires change in you? What moves you to push harder and grow faster?”

    I would answer…
    Lack of options and much option. And I bit of my own will.

    I’m one of those persons that get acting by the heat of the moment….

  • I’m Rachel

    What inspires change in me you say? It is my desire to be the better me,the smarter me, the flat out awesome me! If I stay in one sport it’s BORING. It may be comfortable but not exciting!!! Slthough change is a kindo of scary some times tricky thing it always worth it…

    Any one know the song sing sweet nighting gale? I have it stuck in my head. Cinderella sang it.

  • I’m Rachel

    That word I typed wrong was supposed to be although. Sorry if I counfused anyone.

  • taylor nikole

    hmm change….
    falling asleep in french class
    maybe that will push me to ‘change’
    my sleeping habits?
    *ponders*
    8 hours of sleep instead of 6 hours…. hmmm

  • taylor nikole

    “They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”
    Andy Warhol

    (its on my wall haha)

  • The Friday Philosopher

    I would like to say that I inspire change within myself, but if I did, I would probably be lying!

    Like Amanda, I usually give change a wide berth, I don’t really know why. I’m not afraid of most changes; I know that certain changes are in fact a necessity for progression.

    “A change is as good as a rest.” As my dear old Grandmother used to say; for me personally to change, there has to be a formidable force claiming responsibility for it, little changes, like those of self progression happen on a daily basis, but they are so small and seemingly insignificant that I hardly notice them. However, the memorable changes usually leave a trail in their wake, hopefully it’s not a trail of destruction, but that really isn’t up to us, as most of the time, we have very little control over the forces behind change. Like Michelle has said, sometimes the risks presented by any given changes are out-weighed by the curiosity of what life would be like after their occurrence, I do believe that colossal changes are scary no matter who you are, but sometimes, you just need to step to the edge and take that leap of faith!

    As for inspiration; there are many things that inspire me, but not all of them, warrant change. Then again there are those moments when a change happens whether you wanted to or not! I have learned that it is better to try to accept those changes than to fight them, in my experience they are usually so drastic that there is not much that can be done to un-change them. Also, along with certain aspects of life there are some people who have and continue to inspire change in me; the main difference between these people and other forms of change is that, these few people don’t always need to work to inspire me; sometimes all it takes is the request for change.

    I’m looking forward to the interviews, especially those where you are the interviewee. I know that we will probably never meet in person, but maybe this will help those of us who live so far away to get to know the real Allison Mack, if only a little bit better.

    Friday

    P.S. Rachel, I can’t speak for everyone, but I was born confused! Insignificant spelling errors are not going to make that any worse! :)

  • http://www.myspace.com/analfabeta Gnome

    One thing about changes…..

    Big changes scares me a lot, so I stay with the small ones and do them little by little. Is more effective.

    When I think in big changes, it usually involves a pack of changes and it kinda discourages me since the result won’t come as fast as I want.

    So I take one day after the other, one small change after other. Like cutting my hair, changing my appearence, working my self-esteem, working my shyness, traveling by myself, making new friends, reading good books and getting one thing leading me to another…
    Its better than just propose myself to be be sucessfull.

  • I’m Rachel

    friday,

    I feel so embarrassed when I do make those mistakes. I do appreciate your comments though. :)

  • Marilyne

    Hum…Change…I change things and habits to improve them, to prevent something or because I see the problems coming if I don’t. I am presently trying to change my diet habits, and seeing the results, I can certainly say I’m glad I did! Change represents evolution and kind of a grasping everything good and leaving what is not behind.

    I think that the idea of interviewing other people is great. I really enjoyed your Q and A at the very beginning of your official web site so I’m really looking forward to new ones :P

    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!:D

  • taylor nikole

    ah rachel.. have u seen the errors I mke when im on my phone here? haha
    my keyboard on my phone sucks haha
    and things turn out like gibberish :)
    but atleast I understand what I meant to say

  • Sherann Johnson

    You know Allison when asked this question this quote comes to mind.

    “Around here, however, we don’t look backward for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because were curious…And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
    -Walt Disney

    Change for me is an exciting thing to experience. I love doing and trying new things. Especially when it brings me closer to my goals in life. I also love how change is just a part of life. There’s nothing we can do to avoid it . It all depends on how brave we are when it looks us in the eye. We can either embrace it or look away.

  • Taty

    In my opinion Change is good, but sometimes is so difficult.
    I’m constantly trying to learn, grow and better myself and life inspires me everyday teaches me something new.
    And I also inspired by my family, my friends and people around me.
    *
    I am excited to read your interview tomorrow!!! ;)

    Love,
    Taty

  • http://www.daybow.com David Hayes

    When I was a kid, the product labels on a box of cereal or any product rarely changed. It made the product recognizable. Plus they didn’t have a cheap way of making hundreds of labeling variations like they do today. One of my first memories of being very upset about anything was when I thought my Mother had changed from a product that I ate every day. My Mother patiently showed me that it was the same stuff with a newly designed label. My reaction was “Why the heck would they do that?” Unlike the people I met that had lifelong friends, my family moved every couple years. That was more than enough change for me. But the rate of change of the things around me keeps accelerating. Software changes so drastically every year or two that having experience with using a program can actually be a detriment. So any more, something steady and unchanging is a great comfort to me. Maneuvering in the modern world is like walking through quicksand in high winds during an earthquake.

  • http://www.daybow.com David Hayes

    … I think change should be regimented. For instance, I change my underwear on the first and fifteenth of the month whether it needs it or not.

  • http://www.daybow.com David Hayes

    Oh … and this week isn’t good for me for an interview, so perhaps some other time. It’s all for the best because my wife gets cross if I pollinate.

  • Emily

    What inspires change in me… hmm. Probably people’s reactions. I am a rather shy person (well, really more of an introvert…), and if someone actually takes incentive and talks to me, I generally listen to what they have to say, and attempt to model my thoughts and actions accordingly. Not to say I am easily persuaded… I just try to keep an open mind, and stay on everyone’s good side. Which sometimes means being someone I’m really not… but, the catch is, I’m too shy to show people other than my closest friends and family the real me. This is a major struggle I’m working with, to overcome my timidness. It’s hard changing. I’m a rather traditional person – I don’t like change all that much. I didn’t even like switching our Christmas tree star for an angel. Am I being contradictory? I say I try to keep an open mind, but then say I don’t like change. I guess the overall summary of this confusing post is… I want to change, but it’s hard for me to do so. So, the final answer to your question is: Wanting to change and getting encouragement to do so is what inspires change in me. How’s that? =P
    To quote Gandhi, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” I’m going about it in my own small ways. And, to quote Smashmouth, “Somebody once asked could I spare some change for gas, ‘I need to get myself away from this place.’ I said yup; what a concept! I could use a little fuel myself and we could all use a little change…”

    Love from Arkansas!
    -Emily

  • arash

    Both “Change” and “Habbits” are very natural.
    Creation and annihilation both mean change. It could be from matter to energy or vice versa but it is change. The concept of Time or Space is understood only because something changes. At one point you may feel okay with your age but it is not up to you it WILL change. But within those changes there are natural habbits; day and night, seasons, reproduction cycles…
    We want to read a blog everyday (habbit) but on a different subject (change).
    We need both, but every one should find the best combination that works the best for them.

  • taylor nikole

    alot of times you just can’t move forward if you don’t make changes….

  • arash

    Of course taylor, when the diaper stinks, it is time for a change.

  • arash

    Although you have to go through a lot of shit, but eventually it gets better.

  • taylor nikole

    hahaha
    yes did we learn nothing from allisons rainbow shpeal?
    haha
    :)
    hmm that analogy….
    haha

  • Nikk

    When I feel that something has run its course in my life or that it has outlived its usefulness, that’s what inspires change in my life.

  • Stephanie

    Great idea Allison, cant wait to see your first interview!

  • Daisy

    Excellent question Allison. I think the people I look up to inspire change in me. My mom is one example of someone who inspires me. Sometimes even every day people inspire me. Every day people doing amazing things helps me see that I don’t have to be rich and famous to do great things.

    I sometimes fear change. Sometimes I feel like life at a certain time is just so perfect, that I just don’t want it to change. That’s how I felt when I was in my senior year in high school. Everything was great, but then I graduated and change came. There was nothing I can do about that. Some change is just unavoidable. Graduating was a great accomplishment for me, but I really didn’t want to think past it. I think the biggest change I will face by far will happen in a few weeks. I’m moving away and going to a university. This was actually a change that I chose. Does that make sense? I actually got accepted to a local university which would’ve allowed me to stay at home which I’ve always lived in with the people that I love or I could choose to go to the university that was two hours away which would mean saying goodbye to everything I’ve ever known. I know being two hours away from home isn’t a big deal for some but for someone who has never lived on their own, it’s a BIG deal. I decided to make this big change to challenge myself, to become more independent, and to grow as a person. I also want to experience new things and I think that changing my environment will help me do that. I was also getting a little bored being in the same place all my life and couldn’t imagine continuing living in the same place for two more years. I could’ve chosen to stay at home and commute to my local university, but instead I’ve chosen to take the more difficult and unknown road. I am scared about moving away to a new town where I don’t know anybody, but you only live once right? I don’t want fear to stop me from taken advantage of an opportunity many don’t get.

    I can’t wait to hear your interview tomorrow. I think this is a great idea.

  • Medina

    The New Frontier is here whether we seek it or not.

    Beyond that frontier are uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered problems of ignorance and prejudice, unanswered questions of poverty and surplus.

    JFK

  • http://- Nefra

    what inspires me is the fact that i believe in my true inner potential which has always been inside of me. Recently, i realized that there are a lot of things that needed to be change for me from negatives to being a positive minded person. I guess the end results makes me want to push myself harder…because success is always in my mind and i know it will come, it always does. …when the going get’s tough, the tough gets going….

  • Puffy

    “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” Pablo Picasso

    “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” Georg C. Lichtenberg

    What inspires change in me? The need to know…. curiousity of what it’s like on the other side of the change.

    That curiousity, btw, has led to some pretty shocking haircuts… but even if the change was a bad choice, at least I learnt something from it.

  • Ana_Sullivan

    what inspires me? The possibility to go better in every single thing that I do, and the possibility to do more and more new things.
    The fact of learn things in every corner of this life.
    According to my view the reason we come to this world is to learn every day, every moment is an eternal path towards learning.
    That’s the sense I see in life and the reason that inspires me to do everything I do.
    I also inspire by the persons that I know. My family, my friends.
    One of the people who inspire me most is my friend Carmen. She’s a “warrior”. Life puts many obstacles, and she tries to overcome all of them, learning. And that inspires me to to the same.

  • Ralph

    I am pushed to change by my want to be the best I can at everything I do. I am realistic and know that I can be better at most of the things I do but if I continue to push myself a little bit more in each area of my life I continue to grow as a person, with that in mind I push myself to push myself.

  • Scott

    I have to say that I like the idea you have there. On the (possibly) darker side, it would be a way to draw people in who participate here regularly by granting the prospect of meeting with you for an interview. Separating the celebrity aspect from the goal, I don’t think I’ve seen an approach like that done yet.

    The questions have always been a good way to create activity, too. It makes the reader feel like they’re a part of something instead of a bystander, at least to some small extent.

  • Aysha

    I’m so excited about the interview! I can’t wait to here what others have to say! You really are evolving this site into something much greater and that kicks ass.

    It’s funny that you mention change because lately I have been pondering the fact that I am so resistant to change in my life. I am really trying to force myself to look at change as something that will help me become a stronger and better version of what I am right now, but taking that first step scares the crap out of me.

    And, at other times, I change without even realizing that I have. If the change is slow and gradual, I am more inclined roll with the waves of change. If it is too sudden, then I clam up and become stubborn. So, in essence, if the change is on my own terms, then I am okay with it. But, if it comes at me without notice, I freak.

    Being more open to change is one of my lifetime goals.

    Now, for your question: I feel that seeing others deal with what I am dealing with (whether it be something good or bad) inspires me to push harder and be the best that I can be.

    I am a perfectionist by nature, and most of the time, it works in my favor when I want to accomplish something, but there are times when I set myself up for disappointment when I don’t perform at the level that I expect myself to perform at.

    I am my own worst critic! Oye vey!

    Take Care,
    Aysha

  • Stina

    a feeling of discontent, a lack of fullfillment…
    a thirst or craving for something…
    a love for something/someone…
    the realisitation that i am repeating a pattern…
    above all, a change in the way i think.

    ‘if you always do what you’ve always done you will always get what you’ve always got.’

  • Gail

    My family, my friends, my surroundings, all inspire change in me. I like variety. I was always one to like trying new things. It’s sort of a ‘high’ for me.

    For example, going to a magnet middle schools when all my other classmates went to the local junior high. When my parents moved from Oklahoma to Massachusetts when I was in college. I loved that I got a chance to experience a completely different culture.

    I have not shared that I have two daughters often. I lost one as a baby from a heart defect about ten years-ago.

    I had my second daughter six years ago. (Actually watching Season 1 of Smallville got me through a very nervous pregnancy – and that’s how I got hooked on it and you, Allison).

    My daughter has inspired me to push myself and try new things, like substitute teaching because I love kids. I would have NEVER thought I could have done that when I was younger.

    My sister told me ‘Don’t sell yourself short, Gail, you’d be surprised what you can do’. I know now life is too short. We must keep moving!

  • Adi

    Change is inspired in me if it is beneficial to my duties toward my family friends and myself. Beneficial in ways that I know will help them and me rather than necessarily changes we would LIKE, if you can understand the distinction I’m trying to make.

  • Anya

    Hi,Allison. (:
    There are many factors which help me to change myself. This is people which come to my life because I sincerely trust that any person doesn`t come to our life simply so. This is books which come to my hands, it too occurs not simply so. This is music which mentions one of the deepest strings of soul. Eventually it is world around, a life which throw the most different surprises bad and beauty.

    But most main as I think:it is impossible accept as one’s due all this,it is necessary to learn to price all this.
    Sorry for my english…
    Yours respectfully and good luck. (;

    Anya.

  • Jennifer

    Change is good but can be scary sometimes. What inspires me to change? Well people like you Allison. When I read your blogs and hear what your doing it inspires me to change and try new things. To come out of my shell and stop standing still. Change is what’s makes us grow and makes life more fun.

  • http://www.actorslife.com/kasealaine Kasey

    This is so awful, but I am most inspired to change when someone tells me that I can’t. For instance, my high school friends always made a big joke about how unhealthy I was because I didn’t enjoy sports and, actually, am allergic to most fruit. After I got to college, I decided to work out and began only eating healthy foods (aside from the occasional splurge). Guess that showed them!

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