Have you ever looked back on a traumatic or difficult period in your life and realized that you actually benefited from the experience? It’s not just that time provides a different perspective. Challenges present opportunities for growth, innovation and learning. We can all benefit from difficult experiences.

Sometimes fear and resistance keep us from moving forward, even though we know a change is needed or even inevitable. Holding back just compounds the issue, making the eventual and ultimately unavoidable transition all the more difficult, expensive, time-consuming, or even dangerous.

For example, I often hear people express their fear of rising energy costs. At first glance, that seems logical and understandable. It’s no wonder that so many people have such strong opinions about their energy providers, after all, energy has become synonymous with life – and we use a lot of it in this country.

What if I said that paying two or three times as much for energy could be the best thing that ever happened to us? No, I don’t work for or get paid by the power company and no, I’m not crazy. There are very good reasons why paying more for energy would be a good thing for all of us.

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