"The person who insists on using yesterday’s methods in today’s world won’t be in business tomorrow."

A thought by John C. Maxwell, (2013-10-08) from his book, Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn:Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses (pp. 181-182). Center Street. Kindle Edition.

But that is the way we have always done it. And those words will defeat progress in any person’s world. This world is not the same, it is constantly changing. And we need to be flexible and changing with it in order to survive.

Most of the time we are afraid of change and that fear keeps us from stepping out. I like how Malcolm Gladwell in his book called, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants puts it. He says that, “Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you’ve been through the tough times and you discover they aren’t so tough after all.”

Life is tough. The truth is life has a way of bringing us into our future and we find that the way we have always done it doesn’t work but we fight it with all we have. Life doesn’t have to be lived that way. See change as your friend not you enemy. Learn the lessons to be learned through your tough times.

Start by doing some minor changes. I went to a different Starbucks this morning. I am writing this blog today at a different table at Whole Foods. It may be hard but try it. It will make a difference someday. We are all constantly changing every day, don’t fight it. See it as an adventure.

So how do you handle change?

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