"Our Iceberg Is Melting" …….well this title of the book that I recently finished. It about the changes that happen every now and then and how should we prepare ourselves for such changes. This book actually talks about the strategy of dealing with a change. Which is explained in form of a fable to the reader, and also what role each one us play during such changes.
But first of all I would like to discuss why we don’t take changes easily or why we are always so much apprehensive about the changes, why don’t we believe that future has some good for us and the change will be for the better. Well to be able to accept the change readily we must have to first realize that there is a need of the change, that this present system or situation is not the best that we can expect it to be. Until and unless we realize this I don’t think that we can readily welcome any change weather they are as small as a change in the daily routine or addition of a new member in the family or change of the government or fall of an intuition or nation as a whole.
For my justification I would like to quote the example of fall of the stock market jus before a major event or the protest before any major decision or move by the government. People even before encountering the actual situation start reacting to it, why is it so ???
Well I believe the reason for such a behavior is the nature or amount of complacency we have, the more complacent we are the more we resist to any change. As soon as we encounter any problem we start getting adapted to the new one both physically and mentally, so we do not want to encounter any other or different situation rather than the one prevailing.
Now how can we actually prepare ourselves to take changes in a positive manner is it just by having faith or just let the time take its own course. Well I think we can definitely do something so that if the experience of going through a change is not a pleasant one than it is not very harsh for that matter.
I suppose that there can be a three phase plan for preparing yourself for a change mentally, physically & psychologically. First prepare a mental note or jot down if you want to, all the past incidents when you have been through a change ( no matter how small or large) now after each event write the merits and demerits of it rather I would say the value addition by that event in your life or the harm that it caused you. Now write what would have happened if that event would not have occurred at the first place, what could have you missed if things would have been that way they were. To prepare yourself physically would involve doing something you usually don’t do, let’s say you wake up late like me make same day early some day, you work late in your office take a day off early from office. Your day revolves round the poles of your work place and home, go to a place you never been before, try out something new or different no matter how small or big. Lastly, preparing psychology would involve having faith in something stronger a superior that you.
Well self help and development books can be of help to but how much and to what extent, this we will discuss later as I move on to my other books.
That’s all. Thank you
But first of all I would like to discuss why we don’t take changes easily or why we are always so much apprehensive about the changes, why don’t we believe that future has some good for us and the change will be for the better. Well to be able to accept the change readily we must have to first realize that there is a need of the change, that this present system or situation is not the best that we can expect it to be. Until and unless we realize this I don’t think that we can readily welcome any change weather they are as small as a change in the daily routine or addition of a new member in the family or change of the government or fall of an intuition or nation as a whole.
For my justification I would like to quote the example of fall of the stock market jus before a major event or the protest before any major decision or move by the government. People even before encountering the actual situation start reacting to it, why is it so ???
Well I believe the reason for such a behavior is the nature or amount of complacency we have, the more complacent we are the more we resist to any change. As soon as we encounter any problem we start getting adapted to the new one both physically and mentally, so we do not want to encounter any other or different situation rather than the one prevailing.
Now how can we actually prepare ourselves to take changes in a positive manner is it just by having faith or just let the time take its own course. Well I think we can definitely do something so that if the experience of going through a change is not a pleasant one than it is not very harsh for that matter.
I suppose that there can be a three phase plan for preparing yourself for a change mentally, physically & psychologically. First prepare a mental note or jot down if you want to, all the past incidents when you have been through a change ( no matter how small or large) now after each event write the merits and demerits of it rather I would say the value addition by that event in your life or the harm that it caused you. Now write what would have happened if that event would not have occurred at the first place, what could have you missed if things would have been that way they were. To prepare yourself physically would involve doing something you usually don’t do, let’s say you wake up late like me make same day early some day, you work late in your office take a day off early from office. Your day revolves round the poles of your work place and home, go to a place you never been before, try out something new or different no matter how small or big. Lastly, preparing psychology would involve having faith in something stronger a superior that you.
Well self help and development books can be of help to but how much and to what extent, this we will discuss later as I move on to my other books.
That’s all. Thank you
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