Can you hit a moving target if you think it's standing
still?
Time management tips are most effective when they help you
understand time. Time is the medium of change. And we certainly live in
transitional times.
How you relate to constant change will powerfully affect
your productivity and your level of satisfaction with your life. Use this
article to approach transitions in ways that revolutionize your life. Does that
sound like a tall order? Consider the following:
Life changes constantly. Although our plans may center on
predictability, deep inside we know the reality of change. Aging, growing, and
dying surround us. Nations battle. Economies surge and stagger.
Life only appears unchanging when you're not paying
attention. The left brain, responsible for organizing, tries to
"freeze" life into a photograph to study and manage it. But of
course, life persists in being a "movie" in which absolutely everything
changes.
When you're not paying attention, your productivity suffers.
The fastest path to obsolescence is not planning for change. And to plan for
change, you must stay ahead of the curve, constantly anticipating the direction
in which everything will move.
Closed systems view changes as disruption, so obsolescence
is inevitable. When you base your life on things not changing, you lock stress
into your life. You will forever be knocked off balance by new developments and
attempting to move things backward in time.
Open systems eagerly study change to evolve with the times.
As you consciously work to develop skills for change, you will notice something
extraordinary as you progress: you can tap into the energy of change, because
you are aligned with change!
The more you plan for change, the more you flow with the
current.
Although Change Management will revolutionize your life, it
is based on simple skills that you use every day. Here are 3 steps to change
your thoughts to change your life:
Practice total focus. When you work with total focus, you
learn as much as you can, not only about your work, but also about yourself at
work. You note "peripheral events" that will introduce changes in
your life, sooner or later. As everything is in constant motion, identify direction
as well as location.
Constantly challenge your thinking to embrace constant
change. As Pema Chodron observes, we tend to make everything a noun, but life
is a verb. Play with thinking of everything as a verb. This helps revise your
perceptions to match the reality of life's constant change.
Plan for change.
The difference between resisting change and planning for
change is the difference between bracing yourself in front of a breaking wave
and riding a wave. As you fully embrace change, you will be like the surfer,
eagerly scanning the ocean for the next wave to ride.
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