"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
We are in the middle of a "change storm" with calls from all sides to get to a different place starting with business.
Maybe it is a good time to look for ways to improve things, starting with us. And not just in our current poor economic condition but in all ways, every day.
Change is coming. Will we make it or will it make us?
Maybe it is a good time to look for ways to improve things, starting with us. And not just in our current poor economic condition but in all ways, every day.
Change is coming. Will we make it or will it make us?
I heard an interview the other night with an ex bank employee who had been employed to sell people mortgage products that many could not afford. At one point the interviewer asked the guy if he at all felt personally responsible for his role in the current economic problems.
ReplyDeleteI think that every one of us needs to reflect on what we did and thought prior to the problems we now all see so clearly. Everyone I know including me was looking to make money, now it appears, out of almost nothing. Whether it be in stock options or buying and flipping real estate, we all willingly went along for the ride.
That bank employee can reflect all he wants on what he did but there certainly was enough greed to go around for all of us.
Over the last 18 months, we've heard a lot about change. I'm not expecting any miracles, while some may be. However, I am ready to embrace change in the year ahead.
ReplyDeleteEmbrace it? That sounds like waiting for someone to come along and save us. We all better work like hell to make things better.
ReplyDeleteDon't wait for any politician to do it for you. We got ourselves into this and only we can get us out.
Change is just about making new choices. It needs an honest look at the reality of the situation, not wishing or hoping - what's happening right here, right now. And then make choices accordingly.
ReplyDeleteOne of my obsessions is climbing, both rock & some high altitude mountaineering. On every big mountain, there's a point when I'm tired, cold, nauseous from altitude - generally pretty miserable. All I want is to be home in a warm bed. But reality is that I'm on the side of a mountain, and all the complaining or wishing I weren't there or being angry that I came on that trip doesn't change it. So I have choices: I can continue, maybe summiting, maybe not; or I can turn around and head down, which still means hours of hard climbing and definitely missing the summit. But if I refuse to choose, and just sit where I am, I will die.
Seems like an apt metaphor.
"But if I refuse to choose, and just sit where I am, I will die."
ReplyDeleteWell said Julie. I occasionally take "long walks", the most recent being 115 miles over 5 days from my home in Orange County Cal to San Diego. More than once, way, way more than once I asked myself if I had lost my mind. While the answer doesn't prove I haven't it ultimately came down to a decision to either quit or keep going. Staying put was not an option.
I like that black and white sort of choice and try to view all decisions that way.