Top 10 Habits for a Rapidly Changing World!
•1. Accept the certainty of uncertainty. Our rapidly changing world is filled with ambiguity, shifting priorities, differing expectations, unanswered questions, new ways of doing old things and phenomenal growth. People with a high need for structure and closure find it especially difficult to cope.
•2. Become a quick-change artist. Resistance to change is a dead end street. Success requires you to abandon the status quo, overcome addictions to your comfort zone, and adapt to new situations and ways of doing things quickly. Staying abreast of change means perpetual motion and rapid adjustment.
•3. Stay in school. The most important way to cope with change and recognize and seize the opportunities it brings is to never stop learning! We are all the sum of what we read, hear and experience. The most successful lifelong learners make it a point to learn something new from everyone they meet.
•4. Open your mind and unhook your prejudices. A prejudice is a judgement or opinion reached before the facts are known or maintained long after the facts have changed. Prejudices severely limit our ability to respond to change. Prejudice stifles creativity and innovation.
•5. Become a trend watcher and idea collector. Opportunities abound in trends and change. Start an idea file. You often hear an idea that strikes a chord, but not sure what you'd do with it. Stash it away for later review.
•6. Open all your gifts and be on the lookout for new gifts. We all have many gifts that we have never fully used. High achievers in a changing world use all their gifts and constantly seek new ones. For every gift you open, there are many more waiting to be discovered and used.
•7. Cultivate and maintain a solid resource network. Your "Personal Advisory Board" members are all part of your resource network. Become a master networker. In times of rapid and radical change your network can be a gold mine of support. Remember that networking is a two-way street: It is about both giving and receiving support, information and assistance.
•8. Develop a reputation as a fixer....not a finger pointer! Every business, organization and community needs people who are willing to take care of problems. People who are valuable and successful in times of change are flexible, objective and creative. When they have a problem or complaint, they also have suggested options for a solution to the problem.
•9. Lighten up! Optimism is contagious. The benefits of optimism and a sense of humor cannot be over emphasized in a climate of change. Negativism and its by-product, stress, cloud judgement and interfere with objectivity. Do you lead others into change or lead them into resistance?
•10. Stop waiting! Many people can make an entire lifetime out of getting ready to do something....laying the groundwork.....making plans....waiting, wasting valuable time until the TIME IS RIGHT! Change doesn't wait and the opportunities of today may not be there tomorrow. Develop a sense of urgency and couple it with action. Carpe Diem!
Lynne Christen, Accredited Public Relations Professional
lyncoach@gnt.net
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