Embrace Change to Succeed

 By Alain Burrese | Submitted On July 22, 2010

You must be prepared for change, or you will not succeed. You must not only be prepared for change, but you must embrace it. Change is inevitable. Everything is in a constant flux of change: technology, economies, businesses, our personal lives and everything else you can think of. You can either choose to accept and go with it, reaping benefits from it; or you can resist it and potentially be drug down, passed up, or swept away by it. Spencer Johnson, M.D. wrote a simple parable that revealed truths regarding change with his book "Who Moved My Cheese?" The book became a #1 International Bestseller with more than 10 million copies in print, illustrating the importance dealing with change is to people. The story involves characters faced with unexpected change and how they deal with it. It is a story about change that takes place in a maze, where four characters, two mice and two little people look for cheese. Cheese is a metaphor representing what people want in life, and the maze represents where you spend time looking for what you want. One of the characters deals with the change successfully and writes what he learned on the maze walls. These simple truths from "Who Moved My Cheese" will help you deal with and adapt to change

• Change Happens 

• Anticipate Change

 • Monitor Change 

• Adapt to Change Quickly

 • Change

 • Enjoy Change

 • Be Ready to Quickly Change Again and Again 

If a business is not changing, it will not keep up and be successful. In today's times, more than ever, change is not only inevitable but necessary. You must be able to roll with the punches. Or, like a Drill Sergeant I had in the army used to say, "I can roll left, I can roll right, or I can low crawl right up the middle." The person who can adjust to change quickly will be more successful. Leaders cannot afford to resist change. In fact, true leaders are the ones initiating change. Those that resist will not make it to the pinnacle of their organization, let alone success. Some people never change, and they pay a price for it. They get passed by for promotions, eaten up by competitors, and then feel like victims while blaming others. When the market changes, you must update your corporate vision and identify the changes that will get you ahead, or keep you there if you hold that position. 6/7/2021 Embrace Change to Succeed https://ezinearticles.com/?Embrace-Change-to-Succeed&id=4715408 2/2 One of the difficult questions a leader or manager must ask is, "at what point in change and growth does management have to change its characteristics, its structure, its behavior?" Leaders are faced with preparing for change so they are ready, without overloading the organization with functions and complexities it does not require and cannot afford. The answers are not easy.

 The reason so many people resist change is because adapting can be difficult. The keys, as written on the walls in "Who Moved My Cheese," consist of realizing change happens, preparing and anticipating it, adapting to change quickly, changing as needed and enjoying change rather than resisting it. And of course, being ready to quickly change again and again. Change can lead you to a new and better place, even when you are afraid of it initially. Most of us can look back at a significant change in our life that we dreaded or we were afraid of. At the time, we may have thought nothing could be worse: We would never get through it. Now, looking back, we realize without the change we would have missed out on many wonderful opportunities that developed and can not even imagine what life would have been like without the change. Do not fear change, and do not hide from it. It is inevitable, so embrace it, create it, make things better. Do not settle for the status quo. Make things happen for positive change and growth. Invent a new and improved way. 

Change is progress, and in business change can mean big dollars. For certain, dealing with change is necessary for any success, so embrace it! Alain Burrese, J.D. is a performance and personal development expert who teaches how to live, take action, and get things done through the Warrior's Edge. Alain combines his military, martial art, and Asian experiences with his business, law, and conflict resolution education into a powerful way of living with balance, honor, and integrity. He teaches how to use the Warrior's Edge to Take Action and Achieve Remarkable Results. Alain is the author of Hard-Won Wisdom From The School Of Hard Knocks, the DVDs Hapkido Hoshinsul, Streetfighting Essentials, Hapkido Cane, the Lock On Joint Locking series, and numerous articles and reviews. You can read more articles and reviews and see clips of his DVDs as well as much more at http://www.burrese.com and http://www.aikiproductions.com Article Source: 

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