<p><img decoding="async" title="Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author" src="http://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/joe-tye-smll.jpg" alt="Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author" align="left" />You often hear it said that people are afraid of change (no one likes change but a wet baby!), but that&#8217;s not true. People love change &#8211; as it comes with a guarantee that it&#8217;s going to be a positive change. </p>
<p>To prove this to yourself, imagine a change that entails a zero being added to the dollar figure on your paycheck, no strings attached. Most people dream of such changes! This is, of course, a hypothetical example.</p>
<p>People are not afraid of change per se &#8211; what they are afraid of is the uncertainty that goes with change. That is why so many people never venture very far from their own little box. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2011/02/5-strategies-to-help-escape-the-box-by-joe-tye/" title="Permanent Link: 5 Strategies to Help Escape &#8220;The Box&#8221; By Joe Tye" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":377,"date":"2011-02-19T15:04:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2023-04-15T21:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T02:38:51","slug":"5-strategies-to-help-escape-the-box-by-joe-tye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/02\/5-strategies-to-help-escape-the-box-by-joe-tye\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Strategies to Help Escape &#8220;The Box&#8221; By Joe Tye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author\" src=\"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/joe-tye-smll.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Tye - motivational speaker and author\" align=\"left\" \/>You often hear it said that people are afraid of change (no one likes change but a wet baby!), but that&#8217;s not true. People love change &#8211; as it comes with a guarantee that it&#8217;s going to be a positive change. <\/p>\n<p>To prove this to yourself, imagine a change that entails a zero being added to the dollar figure on your paycheck, no strings attached. Most people dream of such changes! This is, of course, a hypothetical example.<\/p>\n<p>People are not afraid of change per se &#8211; what they are afraid of is the uncertainty that goes with change. That is why so many people never venture very far from their own little box. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2011\/02\/5-strategies-to-help-escape-the-box-by-joe-tye\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: 5 Strategies to Help Escape &#8220;The Box&#8221; By Joe Tye\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}