Transilience

Precipice of Change

2007-12-14T14:45:00.000-05:00

The most daunting point of change materializes at the precipice. The way forward requires a leap, whereas diverting from the edge still requires an alteration of course. Even back pedaling mainifests a focus and energy directed toward an effort and direction. The precipice is a test. Your initial reations to this edge of change should indicate your meddle and prepardness for change. Every trip to the edge does not require a leap, but every leap requires a trip to the precipice of change. Do not fear it, know it. It is not a chasm it is a bridge for change, a seperation from the previous and a reach for the future.

Recognition of the frontier is an indication of the proximity to change. Familiarity in it is a measure of comfort in the change desired. Comfort in the border relects the preparedness for change.

Perfect Slogan

2007-11-05T11:03:00.000-05:00

Let's give them the title. No one in history and in my opinion no one in the future will come up a more perfect summation of mantra, slogan, rally call, or just plain self directive.

Three monosyllable words, not needing and precursor or set up, and concludes in an unstated demand that perfectly implies a period, in the purity of a period being the finality of the statement and that nothing more needs to be said nor could be said in clarification.

A three beat verbal assault, pounding every reason for not taking action into a dust cloud of fading self doubt.

A grammatical fragment in the perfect generalizations of verb and pronoun to apply universally for every speaker and target. It's done, no competition even comes close. Time and time this slogan serves a purpose to those that use it and it has transcended beyond a marketing tool to sell products, to become the perfect sell motivator.

All those wishing to accomplish, itching to lead, willing to push for change should daily, nay...constantly recite its proclamation and purposely follow it's direction.

Just Do It.

Being Told "You Can't"

2007-11-05T10:40:00.000-05:00

Formulas for change are almost as prolific as opinions: and you know what they say about opinions. For an individual or group, guidelines can serve a valuable purpose to avoid sins of the past and help set the next milestones for change you haven't made before. But be careful and skeptical when someone says you can't achieve some change or goal because of your situation, conditions or environment. No one has the same parameters to work with in making a change, ultimately you are solitary, the complexities different and the time in which you perform the transformation is unique.

History teaches us many things and proves time and time again that those that ignore history are destined to repeat it [usually in a bad way]. Almost as if you need to do it again, until you get it right. History also teaches us that those that are told they can't; if fact CAN. The only one that can tell you, "you can't" and be right, is yourself.

If anyone tells you "you can't", recognize that the 'can't' is only a lesson they may have learned on a particular way to make a similar change. Find the lesson and learn from it. Do Not take it as a directive. Take it as a suggestion that you may need to find a better way, but with better knowledge you can, just not the same way someone else did.

Chance of Failure

2005-12-30T09:00:00.000-05:00

In change the focus is primarily on positive image. An vision target of success that drives you through the obstacles. This picture of the end state target leads subconscious decision selections that match to the achievement of an envisioned change and reaffirm the progress already made.

But what of the chance for failure? Part of deciding when to make a leap of change is a sufficient confidence level that obstacles have been considered and a chance of success is high. Change is risky for no other reason than it is different. Conditions that would lead to failure are defined as risks. Additionally, as change is for a purpose or goal, a reward potential is inversely proportional to the level of risk.

So accept the chance of failure. The recognition of the details of the chance may provide the indication that you are ready for the leap of change. The absence of the chance for failure, may indicate you have waited too long to take the leap. Because fear of failure may be the motivation needed to achieve your change.

Thinking Beyond the Change

2005-12-14T12:38:00.000-05:00

When planning or preparing to begin a change effort, it is important to consider how will the change be sustained over time. A successful change is not measured by the reach, as if you are seeing how high you can jump. A desired change needs planning to keep the change persistent. Part of this entails breaking the bonds that cause a recoil and the another will reinforcing the change state. Change is a measurement of distance from previous state, more like a leap from one point to another. When reaching the new 'place' things are different, even perspective, this is planned change. A new foundation comes with any significant change.

Starting Internally

2005-12-06T13:33:00.000-05:00

Most of the time, to make a change you have to start with yourself. Attitudes, assumptions and perceptions can divert change efforts. The habits you have, lead to paths away from your goal. Mentally in thinking, and habitially in action, you drive the new way making patterns of already executed change. Just like a vision focus on the goal and making decision that advance toward the goal these patterns make the assumption the change is acheived and builds a positive reinforcement for your mind and your body. Ecouraging the change into new conduct and guiding others and your environment along the way. This is the way of a change agent.

Rewiring the Brain

2005-11-27T10:28:00.000-05:00

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Leadership Leads Change

2005-11-14T07:33:00.000-05:00

When a group needs change, it is difficult to hope for or even manage the change individually amongst all members of a group, especially when the change effects them concurrently. For group change a leader is needed. Someone needs to guide the group, establish the future and even make collective decisions for the group.

This is not without responsibility and in not necessarily the person of the group most eager for the change. Leadership in change implies an understand of the group or activity being changed and the stakeholders and their weakness and strength related to the change and its achievement. The leader must see the collective progress of the group and assist those that 'fall behind'. He/She must also make decisions with consideration of the whole, more in a systems thinking perspective, than her own or individual perspectives.

Similar to individual change were you must lead one, leadership is leading the group as one.

Time to Think

2005-11-08T07:51:00.000-05:00

Taking time to just think will help in both preparation for change and consideration of needed or opportunistic change. The mind can process quite an extensive amount of parameters, but sometimes it needs the leisure to do this. With all the distractions and assault by information, finding time consistently, if at all, is difficult. Additionally when beginning isolated time for deep thinking, more effort is needed to clear the mind and focus on primary or fundamental thoughts.

Committing to this thinking time can help bring clarity and focus to what is around you in opportunities and threats (negative deterrents to goals or change objectives). As long as you do not sacrifice times of action over times of thinking, thinking will lead to a confidence for action and a better preparedness for when it is time to leap.

Inkling of Change

2005-11-02T09:29:00.000-05:00

Getting comfortable with change begins with an instinct of knowing when change is about to happen. This inkling can also be a tool to recognize and take advantage of opportunity. You can gain this insight by being aware of surroundings, events and environment and then testing your change projection. Predict in your mind where and when the change will occur and what it looks like, then compare this with results as they unfold. This re-enforces your instincts.

Look for instability. Scenarios that are not sustainable are ripe for alteration or adjustment. Look for reinforcing loops and the state where they equalize. If it is not the current state, then something has to change.

Futurists look at associations and trends and use them to identify a possible future. Note that this is not a prediction, it is more a projection based on a continuation of events. The considerations of these future state scenarios not only permit an understanding - and comfort - of the change, but an opportunity to identify focus points to effect a change if the anticipated state is not the desired state. This is how change in managed.

Identification of the critical factors driving change establish the critical path items that change transition occurs through. Change consists of action, transition, and balance. Seeing these states progress, takes you out of being managed or forced by the change and adds a capability to effect the change before, or as, it occurs. Think of these instinctual inklings and links to connect to change.

Try it, You'll Like it

2005-10-28T08:20:00.000-04:00

One of the things that make change difficult is the fear of the unknown. With anything new and different most of us have shed our curiosity some time ago. Not knowing what it will be like or feels like makes us uncomfortable. To over come this reluctance, the effect of the change - more of what it would be like after the change - needs to be described and if possible shown to those affected.

If at all possible, simulate the post change environment or situation, immerse them in the future state scenario for a brief period of time. This goes beyond telling them, it shows them and permits the comfort of this the new state to settle with them.

Now with a familiarity, the change - with the purpose understood - can be anticipated, even desired. Knowing what to do, what to expect and how to act makes the transistion or leap less dramatic and easier to assimilate. The closer the simulation matches the changed state the greater the chance the leap will seem effortless.

Change is Hard

2005-10-19T08:59:00.000-04:00

This is not a realization: it is a statement of fact.
Just as change is constant, it is constantly hard. Change is by definition a disruption of the current state, an altering of position, environment, work, etc. Whether by our own doing or by other forces, change is only acheived through action.

Change, in this sense is an activity of violence, but if managed can be a postive disturbance. Energy must be expended to displace the status quo, to begin transition to the new state. This escape from what has become 'comfortable' is likely the most difficult point in any change. You need to prepare for it , as well as be ready to expend energy and work to initiate and complete the leap.

Try, Try Again

2005-10-11T08:08:00.000-04:00

Unless you are dealing with a timing change - one that the window shows now and only now, or a complete transistion change - one from which its all or nothing [no turning back], No need to worry too much about making a step or a partial change toward your objective. It will be a good way to test the waters, so to speak, to see if you are ready and prepared.

Or you could be still in the learning and preparing, and you know you are not ready...yet!

It's quite okay, keep working toward being ready for that leap and obsevant for that next opportunity window. It's no reason to give up on the goal, you can still make the change. You will make that leap at the time and place when you have the best chance to be successful.

Crooked Path

2005-10-05T08:01:00.000-04:00

The target goal should be kept in view with a laser like intensity, but keep in mind that the path to get there may not be as straight. The more dramatic and difficult the intended change the more likely that you can't make it in one leap. And even then the path will likely involve some diagonial moves, where you are still making progress to your goal but its not in the proverbial 'shortest distance'.

Occasions exist when, though we hope with raity, when you find that you are not even on the right path, and a perceived backward step is needed to make a clearer run toward you goal. For this keep sight on the long range and the vision over time, as short term focused decision may lead to a dead end.

Action Jackson

2005-10-04T07:53:00.000-04:00

The saying goes; "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". There is no change without action. If you need a change or desire a change, you must take action. While in-action is a decision, it is not getting you closer to change - to making that leap. Thought - Action - Result; this is the linear progression to achievement.

Even small steps can lead you to a successful change, as long as the steps are made toward your goal or objective. You should be able to answer yes to the question: Will this action bring me bring the transistion or goal closer to achievement?, before you expend the effort on an action.

Preparing and Making it Inevitable

2005-09-26T09:25:00.000-04:00

Preparedness and anticipation only have meaning in the event. If you don't make the leap, then all the studying, preparing and visioning are for naught, even time wasted. But they are necessary if you need to make a big leap, if you want increase your chance of success, and if you want to avoid jumping from chaos into a random void (kind of like the hyperspace button in the old Defender video game).

That said, you can paralyze your self in preparedness work, waiting to be sure. A change is 'leaving your feet' and with that a fundamental risk, the only thing you need is to be prepared enough to have the confidence in yourself and belief that you have the foundation to figure out the next improving step and make the change a success.

Don't Look Back

2005-09-23T10:10:00.000-04:00

The mind needs to be filled and consumed with the target, the destination, the sucessful completion of the objective. That vision of success must burn bright and eliminate the shadows of doubt and fear that cause you to glance back. Reaching is watching the approach not the receeding. Make the orientation foward. As soon as seperation is initiated, its history, it can be learned from but can not be changed, treat your launch point the same.

Funny as it sounds, there must be a reason your eyes are in the front of your head and not in back.

Tempus Fugit too soon

2005-09-21T07:42:00.000-04:00

Time flies and it does not wait, you don't catch up to it, you catch it as it whizzes by. Opportunities present themselves in time, like that brass ring on the old merry-go-round, you see it enough; you start to time it, you plan for its attainment, but you must be measured and quick, 'how many times have I been around?', 'how many left before its over?'. Different bases, but still time and its passing.

Time is a universal measure, even in change. How long for the change to take effect?, When will you be ready? How many days before you give up? What if it's a waste of time?

Opportunities are not always clearly presented like a brass ring. Sometimes it's a reach through a fog with a belief that its there. An exploratory spirit, with a persistence to achieve, and a willingness to adjust are needed for a leap. Because 'when the time is right', might be the time that just passed you right by.

Escape Velocity for Change

2005-09-20T10:30:00.000-04:00

To achieve a paramount transistion from one basis or foundation to another you need to achieve an escape velocity. The force driving the change must exceed the pull of the familiar, the weight of the rut, the desire to reach must exceed the security of hanging on.

Doubt can be drowned out by potential, there are no knows that say you can't make it, no empirical truths that must be hurdled, only the forbearing of your mind, and the human gravitation to what 'is', none of which are absolutes or definitive of which there are no derivatives.

Even a wall, has a window to connect, visually, sensory, and at times physically to the other side, you only need to recognize the path for more opportunity than it initially appears.

Advancing by Leaps and Bounds

2005-09-19T13:37:00.000-04:00

This is the start of a new life. I have reach a launch point, a critical mass, a point of transilience.

We all go through phases, some recognized as significant as they occur, some familiar as such on the occasion of reflection. The best are those that are anticipated, with energy and preperation garnered, like the coiling and tensing before a leap. This is a change managed, not being managed by change. A plan put to action and adjusted by working toward a goal and vision, but alas; not without risk and uncertinatly.

Persistance must be with me as I move through the challenges in taking over control of my own life, switching from influenced to influence.

...I only hope I've judged the distance to the next ledge appropriately...