Change - The Only Thing In Life That Is Constant
January 26, 2009
We have express mail delivery today. A couple of years back, imagine what it was like to get letters and messages across to people. We have mobile phones today. Twenty years ago, what was telephony like? Today, air and rail travels are cheaper and faster. What were they like fifteen years ago? Unlike before, money can now be transferred within seconds from one part of the world to the other.
On a daily basis, inventions and technologies that will make people save money and time, live easier lives and much more are being churned out. Humanity has not found a cure for AIDS but progress is being made. Some types of cancer are being taken care of today if detected early unlike ten years ago.
Because life is changing slowly, if you fail to tag along, you run the risk of being left behind, battered by change in the process. Of course, it is happening to nations, businesses and individuals. The world has become a global village. Advantages that existed in the past due to communication, location, cheap labor and the likes have vanished. Organizations like NOKIA and SONY ERRICSSON are in CHINA today doing good business.
It is said that the greatest man that ever lived was once a day old baby. At every stage in life, there are changes that must be made or adapted to. Anything to the contrary, will make you a looser. Change which is a life time phenomenon connotes growth.
To be successful, you must be open to change. You must constantly review your options and chances to deal with threats and take advantage of opportunities that must come. Destruction/extermination will be knocking at your door if you do otherwise. Change is that powerful. You must seek information and knowledge constantly in order to be relevant. This way, you will avoid failure or at least minimize mistakes and maximize opportunities.
SPICES
Life is a progress, and not a station....Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal....Arthur Schopenhauer
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B....James Yorke
Become a student of change .It is the only thing that will remain constant...Anthony J. D'Angelo
I am always doing that which I can not, in order that I may learn how to do it...Pablo Picasso
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world....Nelson Mandela
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change....Charles Darwin