{"id":17499,"date":"2026-03-10T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/reflections-on-eat-pray-love-why-do-we-wait-so-long-to-change\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:03:49","slug":"reflections-on-eat-pray-love-why-do-we-wait-so-long-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/inspiring-stories\/stories-of-faith-and-hope\/reflections-on-eat-pray-love-why-do-we-wait-so-long-to-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Eat, Pray, Love: Why Do We Wait So Long to Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The success of Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0143118420?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=guidepostsonline&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0143118420\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em><\/a> is founded on the almost universal dream of completely changing our circumstances at some point: Leaving a spouse or finding one, landing a better job\u2014or, for some, any job\u2014losing weight and feeling attractive and alive again, taking the trip of a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" class=\" size-full wp-image-36705\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EatPrayLove.jpg\" style=\"width:150px; height:223px; margin-left:5px; margin-right:5px; float:left\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EatPrayLove.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/EatPrayLove-300x446.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/>Gilbert\u2019s journey got me thinking: When do we say, \u201cEnough! I can\u2019t stand my situation any longer, I\u2019m going to change it!\u201d? <\/p>\n<p>Change is a choice. Crises may hit us and force some external re-arrangement of our lives, but even in those situations, we have to <a href=\"http:\/\/guideposts.org\/personal-growth\">choose to change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Gilbert\u2019s turning point came one night in her bathroom as she was on her knees, sobbing yet again. Then suddenly she found herself praying. The choice to change was in continuing that conversation. And while things didn\u2019t change immediately in her life\u2014in fact they got worse\u2014the seed was planted and three years later she\u2019s off on a world trip financed by a book advance.<\/p>\n<p>AA suggests that before people can turn away from alcoholism they need to hit bottom. I know learning that I was officially \u201cobese\u201d was the \u201cbottom\u201d that provoked me to start making different food choices and lose 35 pounds. And a friend of a friend finally decided to leave her long, turbulent marriage the night their house caught on fire and her husband rushed to the window of their bedroom where the firemen had placed a ladder for their escape. He never checked to see if she was alright but scrambled to safety with nary a look back. That was her \u201cbottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do we have to hit bottom before we change? Do we, like Liz Gilbert, have to cry out in pain from the well of despair before we turn our life around? And, most importantly, why do we wait so long?<\/p>\n<p>Author, entrepreneur and motivational Robert Kiyosaki tackles this problem in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.successmagazine.com\/kiyosaki-the-law-of-compensation\/PARAMS\/article\/1151\/channel\/22\">recent article in <em>Succes<\/em>s magazine<\/a>. He talks about the period after we\u2019ve decided to change, when we have to exert ourselves with no apparent gain. He calls it \u201cthe difficult period of maximum effort with minimal gains.\u201d If we stick with our resolve, with our vision through this tough period, we&#8217;re on our way to success. If we backslide, we have to go back to \u201cmaximum effort with minimal gains\u201d again. <\/p>\n<p>But I ask you: Why do we make it so hard on ourselves? Why is it so hard to change our behaviors when most of the time, we know (we really know deep inside) that we need to change? I\u2019d be interested in your thoughts, your experiences in this regard. Maybe it will help us \u201cwake up\u201d sooner without quite having to hit that very hard, rock bottom place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The success of Elizabeth Gilbert\u2019s book Eat, Pray, Love is founded on the almost universal dream of completely changing our circumstances at some point: Leaving a spouse or finding one, landing a better job\u2014or, for some, any job\u2014losing weight and feeling attractive and alive again, taking the trip of a lifetime. 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