With the future beginning to refocus, the question we need to analyze is: What do we do next?
Two of my favorite authors are Price Pritchett and Ron Pound. They have written a series of books on the topic of change.
Their book, “The Employee Handbook for Organizational Change,” has a great answer for the aforementioned question. Its answer is invent the future instead of trying to redesign the past.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. This suggests that the best way to know what is coming is to put yourself in charge of creating the situation you want.
Be purposeful. Look at what is needed now, and set about doing it.
Action works like a powerful drug to relieve feelings of fear, helplessness, anger, uncertainty or depression. Mobilize yourself, because you will be the primary architect of your future.
One of the keys to being successful in your efforts is to anticipate. Accept the past, focus on the future and anticipate. Consider what is coming, what needs to happen and how you can rise to the occasion.
Stay loose. Remain flexible. Be light on your feet. Instead of changing with the times, make a habit of changing just a little ahead of the times.
Here are some additional thoughts to ponder:
• “The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.” Arnold Glasglow.
• “Our problems are mostly behind us, what we have to do now is fight the solutions.” Stult's Situation Report, Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1975.
• “As you are the only one you can really change, the only one who can really use all your good advice is yourself.” John Roger and Peter McWilliams.
• “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” Jonathon Kozol.
• “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde.
• “Running an organization is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” Price Pritchett.
• “Things will get better, despite our efforts to improve them.” Will Roger.
• “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” Aldous Huxley.
Two of my favorite authors are Price Pritchett and Ron Pound. They have written a series of books on the topic of change.
Their book, “The Employee Handbook for Organizational Change,” has a great answer for the aforementioned question. Its answer is invent the future instead of trying to redesign the past.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. This suggests that the best way to know what is coming is to put yourself in charge of creating the situation you want.
Be purposeful. Look at what is needed now, and set about doing it.
Action works like a powerful drug to relieve feelings of fear, helplessness, anger, uncertainty or depression. Mobilize yourself, because you will be the primary architect of your future.
One of the keys to being successful in your efforts is to anticipate. Accept the past, focus on the future and anticipate. Consider what is coming, what needs to happen and how you can rise to the occasion.
Stay loose. Remain flexible. Be light on your feet. Instead of changing with the times, make a habit of changing just a little ahead of the times.
Here are some additional thoughts to ponder:
• “The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.” Arnold Glasglow.
• “Our problems are mostly behind us, what we have to do now is fight the solutions.” Stult's Situation Report, Chicago Tribune, July 11, 1975.
• “As you are the only one you can really change, the only one who can really use all your good advice is yourself.” John Roger and Peter McWilliams.
• “Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.” Jonathon Kozol.
• “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde.
• “Running an organization is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.” Price Pritchett.
• “Things will get better, despite our efforts to improve them.” Will Roger.
• “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.” Aldous Huxley.