Change happens.
If it didn't, we'd still be living in caves and eating raw, uncooked food.
So, whether we like it or not, we have to deal with constant change.
If you're scared about change, what can you do to help cope with your fear of change? Firstly, realize that it's perfectly normal to be worried about change happening.
The fear of the unknown is one of our most basic fears and is almost certainly linked with our survival of a species.
After all, if we weren't at least a little bit worried about things changing, we'd be in all sorts of trouble.
Next up, begin to resolve the fact that change will happen whether you embrace it or resist it.
The change could be as simple as your work telephone extension number changing.
Or it could be a lot bigger, like having your job completely redesigned or even removed from underneath you.
Resisting change is often harder work than embracing it.
Think about it for a few seconds: is it easier to swim downstream, with the current, or upstream, against the current? Change works exactly the same way.
The more you fight it, the harder it fights back.
Go with the flow and chances are that the change that was going to happen anyway, whether you liked it or not, will be easier to cope with.
Look "under the covers".
There's a good chance that change is actually for the good.
OK, that's not always the case - the software company could have changed the complete menu system just to bug you, for instance - but nine times out of ten there's a very high chance that in a year's time you'll look back and wonder why the change you've now got used to didn't happen sooner.