Winds of change
Often heard is the maxim “Change is the only constant.” It sounds nice, but for most of our adult life, we have lived in a world where change was segue, a turn for the better and the promise of much more to come. Change was rarely turbulent. That ferocious entity was to a large extent deemed to be a relic of the past, a dragon fought by our parents and grandparents, but long since extinct.
Perhaps that is what lulled this generation into a sense of security, a weird intuit of invincibility which characterizes our inability to adapt to the winds of change which have swept the world. We are staring at a most tumultuous period but do not appear prepared in the least. Perhaps this is where T.R. Malthus’ ‘Theory of Positive Checks’ has caught up with humankind.
Albert Ellis once famously said “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own, not your mother’s, the ecology’s, or the president’s.”
And add to that ‘If you can’t beat them, join them’, and you have the two most important lessons of adaptation. It is evidently not possible to change CHANGE, so all that is left in our capacity is to change ourselves.
If you were expecting a roadmap to a better you and an exact step by step approach on how to handle change, you are doomed to disappointment. The process of managing change for the better is correlated to you and the situation you are in and is as unique to you as your fingerprints. And, just like you fingerprints, you are born with the ability to change and the intuition of knowing what exactly to do to achieve it.
And it does not matter who you are and what you do, the only thing matters is your will to change. It does not matter whether you are single or with a family, whether you are rich or running debts and got culled in the stock market crash. When life hands you a lemon, make lemon juice. Remember, our forefathers had a word for what we term as demeaning work; that word was ‘opportunity’.
So all you need to do is get pen to paper; note down what is it that has gone awry and chalk out a plan to make it better. And stick to plan. We do not kid you by saying it is going to be easy. But, believe us; it will be worth the pains. After all, Darwin had a point.
Often heard is the maxim “Change is the only constant.” It sounds nice, but for most of our adult life, we have lived in a world where change was segue, a turn for the better and the promise of much more to come. Change was rarely turbulent. That ferocious entity was to a large extent deemed to be a relic of the past, a dragon fought by our parents and grandparents, but long since extinct.
Perhaps that is what lulled this generation into a sense of security, a weird intuit of invincibility which characterizes our inability to adapt to the winds of change which have swept the world. We are staring at a most tumultuous period but do not appear prepared in the least. Perhaps this is where T.R. Malthus’ ‘Theory of Positive Checks’ has caught up with humankind.
Albert Ellis once famously said “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own, not your mother’s, the ecology’s, or the president’s.”
And add to that ‘If you can’t beat them, join them’, and you have the two most important lessons of adaptation. It is evidently not possible to change CHANGE, so all that is left in our capacity is to change ourselves.
If you were expecting a roadmap to a better you and an exact step by step approach on how to handle change, you are doomed to disappointment. The process of managing change for the better is correlated to you and the situation you are in and is as unique to you as your fingerprints. And, just like you fingerprints, you are born with the ability to change and the intuition of knowing what exactly to do to achieve it.
And it does not matter who you are and what you do, the only thing matters is your will to change. It does not matter whether you are single or with a family, whether you are rich or running debts and got culled in the stock market crash. When life hands you a lemon, make lemon juice. Remember, our forefathers had a word for what we term as demeaning work; that word was ‘opportunity’.
So all you need to do is get pen to paper; note down what is it that has gone awry and chalk out a plan to make it better. And stick to plan. We do not kid you by saying it is going to be easy. But, believe us; it will be worth the pains. After all, Darwin had a point.
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