You Must Change or You're DONE!
For me, the critical change wasn't easy, and it took 15 years of money-losing online marketing before I did it, but I'M HERE NOW! For me and my company, WA is a big change... What is it that YOU need to change, but are still holding on to?
My first 'AHA!' moment on change hit me when I was a college sophomore in Engineering. Late one night I was studying Physics when it struck me that the natural laws I was learning had replaced older laws that they disproved. As I thought about it, I concluded that as technology advanced, these laws would also be dis-proven and replaced by new rules that are better at explaining nature. It seemed crazy that my studies were about learning rules and methods that are helpful, but inherently wrong! I ran off to share this revelation, and bumped into a friend, a senior in Chemistry. I excitedly told him of my new theory, that " All scientific rules are inherently incorrect, and will someday be replaced by new laws that disprove them." He looked me in the face and said without breaking a smile, " I believe your theory is inherently incorrect."
Ouch! Still, it seems that we were both right, impossible as that may look...
Fact is, there are very few rules, approaches or strategies that last forever, but one we can count on is:
Change will happen!
We can try to stop it. We can try to run from it, but when the change train is coming, if we don't get on, it will run us over. Almost nothing lasts forever, and yesterday's new big thing will eventually be tomorrows sad, dingy buggy-whip. It's terrific that XYZ was how Grandpa made his fortune, and wonderful that Dad rode XYZ on a wonderful run and it paid for his glorious retirement. That doesn't mean that sticking with XYZ isn't going to be the most foolish thing you ever did, and the one that ended your business, career or marriage.
I've been as guilty of sticking with old, losing ways FAR too long, but I hope I've turned a corner. How about you? Are you ready to address the change that you've been denying or trying to forget? I hope you see it, and get on the train sooner than I did.
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Great insight Stephen, it is all about getting to that point where we look at things from that honest reflective point of view. Getting the idea of changing and then putting things into place and taking action is the hardest part of the journey it is the mountain to climb. thank you for the motivation.
The only constant, it seems, is change, Stephen. You're right about that!