We are approaching major change.
Imagine standing at a crossroads, and guessing about the adventures that lie ahead.
The world is at a crossroads, you are in charge, what you do now can influence the future of the world. It does not matter that you are but one person, individuals have changed the world before.
What you need to do is decide on a course of action, and start. Starting now, starting too soon, will give you a cushion of flexibility as society races ahead toward your offerings.
Start now.
Don't wait for it
Don't let delays created by the will to fail keep you from being ready. Avoid time wasters and pleasant, needless tasks. Apply your self to what you want to accomplish.
Anticipating Accelerating Change
Consider your world view, be prepared to adapt that view as the world changes.
We are entering a depression, a valley that our leaders have led us toward. In the bottom of that valley we will leave much of what we knew about how the world works. As we leave the depression in 5, 10, or 15 years we will be entering a new world with new rules.
Think of pioneers crossing a desert in their wagons. The had to drop off cherished possessions so as to survive; but they kept moving. Their goal was an entirely new style of life. It would have been nice to arrive with baggage from the past, but proceeding toward the goal was most important.
The changes that are before us are foundational, much of what succeeds today will no longer work where we are headed. It is our adaptability, not what we think we know, that will allow us to excel. Our education to this point has been centered on facts, retention of specific knowledge, and the quest to obtain proof of completion.
Where we are going we don't need roads.
Not only will society change, but the very assumptions that underlie our actions will be challenged. It is not facts and knowledge you will be pursuing, it will be action derived from understanding processes you will be seeking.
This will not be a time for sitting and learning over extended periods - we are entering a time when learning will be accomplished while in motion. Changes will be made as an action is evaluated, new vectors will emerge.
You might as well get used to embracing change - you will be living with it.
Start preparing now.
Think, act, then think again.
Do you have symptoms of a will to fail?
Are you spending your life on matters of no lasting consequence?
As a child you loved the familiar, but you became excited by change and discovery of new things.
You can rediscover that excitement, but not if you hide from it behind manufactured busyness and routine. Examine your life, make it one worth living.
By maintaining your priorities you enable your success.
While we must live today, our future is determined by consistency of choice based on personal priorities.
"Decide now -- is your next action to be determined by what you want to do, or by what you want to accomplish?" - Allan Robert Wallace
If the coming change is for broader applications, spend most of your time building a legacy that will sustain and nurture your organization.
As a principal in your own life, and in the organizations you direct, you will be called on to make short term decisions. If the decisions are made piecemeal without concern for long term consequences you risk suffering a drifting vision unanchored but by expediencies. To sustain a fixed vision your priority must be on direction and sequential consequences.
If you focus on other's ideas and forsake developing a set of personal absolutes you will flounder like a swimmer unable to decide toward which edge of the pond to swim. It is in the determination of goals and of a vision that you establish way points where your path is to lead.
Once established, these landmarks of intention will serve to re-align your walk when distracted by current events and personalities. With practice and attention you will learn that it is your goal that is important to you, not what others think of it. This will provide a dependable reference for making immediate decisions based on more than what is emotionally satisfying in the short term.
Take some time. and a pad of paper, and dwell on what you want to achieve. A first step is to write down the names of all the people whose expectations for your decisions affect how you act. Now write down what you would like to achieve in the long term, regardless of others approval or disdain.
Like plowing a field, if you look at your feet you will wander aimlessly. If instead you focus on a far point, a fence post or tree, and walk towards it your furrow will be straight. To achieve success you must have a goal, and a determination to achieve it within a long term mental commitment to your own moral code.
For a farmer, a series of straight furrows may be the difference between plenty with a salable surplus, and hunger. For your life well directed short term decisions may be the difference between a life well spent and wasted efforts that achieve no long term purpose.
Invest more time developing and maintaining your priorities than you spend solving immediate problems. Stay focused on the long term, focused on making decisions that yield results you need.
At the end of the growing season; may you be well fed, have seed for the next season, and have a surplus to sell.
We all need help when developing and pursuing goals.
Considering change is a challenge, but preparing for a change we are reasonably sure will happen; that takes serious effort.
You have talents and a mind that will allow you to solve the problems you face. Beyond that you have the ability to solve problems the world faces. The only permission you need to dedicate yourself to successful use of your unique attributes is available from within.
Give yourself permission to succeed on a grand scale - Don't settle for above average; pursue excellence.
These books may help, isn't that enough reason to read them?
Og Mandino's University of Success
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
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Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live
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Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives
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The Solution Is at Hand The Dottie Walters Story
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It is the changing of the guard.
"It is no use saying 'We are doing our best.' You have to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill
Those that have served well are willing, if no longer able, to once again enter the fray. Few of those approaching the coming unpleasantness have any idea of the dedication required to survive and succeeded. It will be their mind set more than their training that prepares them.
For fifty years or more the world has been carried by the few individuals that willingly paid an enormous price in their efforts to unrelentingly do what is necessary. Others have coasted behind their efforts, receiving equal or greater acclaim and rewards.
That time is now past.
It is only with unfaltering determination, and a conscious disregard of personal consequences within the coming engagement, that those now entering the battle will come forth as heroes. It is not a time for procrastination, hesitation, and half measures.
The world is changing, those that persevered in the last age will not be able to carry the torch into the new.
"God don't make no junk."
You have all the qualifications you need to succeed greatly. Find an entry point and dedicate yourself fully to doing your best. You will enjoy the challenge, and you will amaze yourself with how capable you really are.
As you grow beyond your entry position, new and more exciting challenges will appear. Escape the boredom of the expected; discover the excitement of accomplishment as empowered by your own dedication.
It is up to you.
What are you preparing for?
Can you see a trend that will eventually impact us all? What are you studying, and what are you doing to get ready?
Do you want to research some ideas about the future and how to influence it?
Is responsibility temporally limited? Or can any effort you make, even if the effects may occur beyond your life span, be of more value than what you currently have planned?
Would you rather labor for a valuable but far of goal that will eventually come to pass, or persist in a recurring cycle that has no lasting effects.
Click on whichever lens you feel may guide you closer to the truth.
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"We hear fables about the past, we develop dreams of the future, but the work needs to be done today." - Allan R. Wallace
