overcoming obstacals

People always resist change
This appears to be a valid generalisation but is often a myth! Look and listen more closely and what you may find is that people resist change that is imposed. Try asking people if everything about their lives, their community and their environment is satisfactory. That often produces the answer 'no'. Now ask "what could be improved?" then listen carefully. People want change that they believe will make their world better, they then want some involvement in how change is introduced and managed and to share in assessing whether progress is being achieved along the lines expected. The changes people want may be the same as those that would have been proposed but there is an enormous difference in having taken part in the process of deciding what to change.

It's all very well for youngsters but older people are set in their ways
This is not always true. Some 'youngsters' can be just as stubborn as 'older