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The Monarch butterfly starts out as a very tiny caterpillar in a very small egg.(about the size of a pinhead) The caterpillar is locked up inside and the only way for it to get out is to break out of its shell and face the world. That's a dramatic change.

Once the caterpillar hatches, it starts growing. It usually starts eating the egg shell it came from and it literally expands itself so much, it grows so much over time, that it has to shed it’s old skin four different times.

How does it do it? It keeps feeding itself.
Once it totally eats the leaf it was born on, it moves to new leaves, new areas and it keeps on feeding.
Is it risky and dangerous? You bet it is. There are always birds and ants and wasps looking for a juicy caterpillar, but it can only keep growing if it keeps feeding itself, and stretching and looking into new areas to explore.

There are two general rules about change:
1. Change is inevitable
2. Nobody likes change.
That’s not quite true, the only person who likes change is a baby with a wet diaper.

That’s the way most of us want to keep it.
We want it safe, we want it secure, we want the old and familar.
We'd just as soon stay in the egg.

The questions for you are these:
Are you willing to change?
Do you have the courage to change?

The answer for most of us is "No, no, thank you Tom."
We don’t like change and don’t like to stress ourselves.

We would rather have a bad situation that is known,
than a possible good situation which is unknown.

Yet, if want to grow, if we want to stretch ourselves just like the monarch, then we have to keep feeding ourselves with new ideas and concepts and keep putting ourselves into new situations, sometimes risky.