One thing Covid has taught us is that nothing in our lives can remain constant and that there will always be a major event that will bring about a reality check to show us to what degree we can actually handle change. The aftermath of constant change (which is the theme of a lockdown) is that people get pacified (wait and do nothing) thinking about and waiting for a ‘return to normal’- where instead they could use their energy to make the most out of what they find themselves in. This kind of action would be called leveraging.
Here is what we can expect from life itself in the days to come: Destabilizing events in different forms will become the ‘new normal’ and only those who are prepared will be able to survive it. Destabilizing events in relationships, destabilizing events at work, destabilizing events economically and many other events of similar intensity will become our new normal. How we deal with these events will reveal a lot about how prepared we are for this change.
I wrote a blog called, “Build the garage before the car comes.” And the focus of this blog was on how I thought about the nature of anticipation and change. If we are expecting something, we will do our best to make room for it and start adjusting our lives to that very thing. In the case of that blog I wrote, if you expecting to buy a car in a couple of weeks, the fitting thing to do would be to build a garage as a sign of the anticipation of the car you plan to purchase.
Equally as much for how we approach change, our level of anticipation for it will reveal how prepared we are for it. In his book, Principles of Change, Myles Munroe highlights the true nature of change in its context. He wrote, “Change is tomorrow taking over today and is best survived by those who anticipate it before it comes, plan for it while it is taking place and learn from it once it has passed.” With this we can now understand that change is to life what oxygen is to a body. Nothing stays constant and we always need to be prepared for that.
In conclusion, our reaction to change reflects our expectation from it and our response to change also reflects our maturity about it. Instead of trying to manage change like we are trying to manage COVID, we should allow people to experience the full force of change (and this is not me advocating for death or negligence) as I know that change will allow people to think more creatively and realise that security is a superstition.
As a generation we should have the courage to initiate change and learn to reflect from it. Chances are that we are not returning back to normal- or at least the normal that we know. We now have the time to leverage the change we experience, instead of complaining about mismanagement or corruption, we can now use this time to find better ways to advance our lives and improve the quality of it. A bend in the road is only deadly if you cannot make the turn- adjust yourself and leverage the change.
I cannot wait to share more blogs with you all. We are coming out stronger from this lockdown situation. Hope you will enjoy this journey with me.
Regards
Leonard #WinnersWin
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