Here’s a fun story I didn’t know until a few nights ago. When Mark Zuckerburg moved Facebook into Sun Microsystems’ old building in Menlo Park, he changed everything around except one thing. He kept the sign out front. He just turned it around and used the other side for the iconic blue thumb pic and now the Meta sign. He did this, they say, as a reminder that we always need to be innovating or we will become irrelevant and someone new will take over our space.

Isn’t that a great reminder? All those Menlo Park companies have some of the most brilliant, progressive minds in the world. And yet one of the smartest things they’ll do is focus on their mistakes so they can learn, and improve. If they don’t – nothing will change except they’ll be out of a job sooner than later because there will be no innovation.

Change can be really scary. Especially when we’re afraid to fail or make mistakes. We can get so caught up in being right, that we forget to be curious. What unknowns will pop up (because they always do), what will have to shift so the idea can move forward, what huge mistakes will we find that will lead us to a version of this that is so much better than we could have imagined?

Can you get excited about a new way of looking at something or thinking about something instead of dreading it? Or maybe you can start with accepting that the only unnatural thing about change is all the work we put into fighting it. Maybe you can take a walk with your memories and be a detective, looking for ways that changed made a wonderful difference in your life? If none of those work, nature is always a great mentor – Nature is peaceful. It doesn’t force itself into being something it’s not. It is, it flows, it changes, it adapts and even though sometimes trees have to find their way out of boulders to grow, it will find a way – and so will we.