SURVIVING THE TIMES

As the saying goes, “Change is inevitable and constant.” Change comes in every aspect of our lives, our attitudes, character, intelligence, behavior, actions, reactions, way of live and people actions towards us. Times, Times can be defined as stages in ones or people lives when things are not going well or right.

What can cause this? This is a big question that can only be answered by yourself. Why are things not going well for u at the office, home, with your family, friends, colleagues like it used to be? What are u doing wrong? What has changed? Why the sudden change of attitude towards u from your loved ones? Why is your business not making profit again? Ask yourself “What is happening? What is going on?” Rumi said “Anything you are looking for, can only be found inside of you.” This means, whatever answer u need, ask yourself, because only you can answer yourself. Percy Ross once said “You have got to ask.” Asking in my opinion, is the world’s most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness.” Albert Einstein once said “Doing the same thing and expecting different results, is the height of insanity.” You are the head of the family, things aren’t going well for u at home with your family, a sudden change of attitude towards you from your family, and your ego or lack of intelligence, is stopping from asking them “What is going on? What am I doing wrong?  But instead, you tend to use your superiority over them to follow your orders, even though u see the sadness and unhappiness in their eyes, which is unusual. As a leader, when your people suddenly change towards u, observe, is it just a person having a bad day? What can be the problem? Have I offended him/her? Then, if this is a general state of the people around u, call them up, ask “what’s wrong?” don’t put fear in them, let them say whatever is bothering them, even if it is against you. People telling you or showing you their displeasure towards you is a show of the love and value of your relationship. As a good leader, you adjust, you reason with them, because if everyone is against u not few, then, something is wrong with you. Like Einstein said “You can’t be doing the same thing and expect different results.”

You are a business magnate, you are doing exceptionally well in your business, your ideas are yielding great results, your staff are happy, doing great jobs. Suddenly, things are going south with your business, you are running out of ideas, your staff are inefficient and profit are no more coming in. You ask yourself, what is going on? What are we doing wrong? Are we having superior competitors? If u can answer these questions, this is the first step in surviving the Times. Change is now needed, new ideas, new innovations, and drastic changes for drastic times.

Education, having a good education is what makes us who we are. What is education? Education is the process of facilitating learning. Knowledge, skills, values, beliefs, and habits of a group of people are transferred to other people, through storytelling, discussion, teaching, training, or research. “LEARNING” this can be complicated and difficult. Different people with different level of understanding and thinking. Brigham Young once said “Education is the ability to think clearly, act well in the world of work and to appreciate life.” Don’t u ask yourself this? Why students in the same class and with the same lecturers have different grades? Maybe different desire, zeal, aspirations, IQ, goals etc. Some students work so hard, but all the hard work yield no good result. Why so? What are they doing wrong? Why are things not going their way? These are the questions they should ask themselves. Oprah Winfrey once said “if you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.” Like many do, they blame the system for their failure. If u continue to think that way, they won’t be an improvement in your results, but instead, take actions, change the way you think and take responsibilities for your actions. The system is bad, no doubt, but that doesn’t hinder your learning, you might not be getting the grades you desire, you must make sure you are impacting yourself with knowledge, because, that’s what will make u be whatever u want to be in life, the knowledge u acquire at every stage of your life.