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Casual Articles - Change at the Speed of Light
You’ve been in a dead-end job for months, or even years now, yet you can’t seem to gather up the courage to look for a new job. Or your company announced there will be a series of layoffs coming this year and you don’t know if you’re going to be affected. Is that enough to make you start job hunting? If not, then you could be considered a job search procrastinator.Prepare for Layoffs“I’m comfortable where I’m at.” This is one of the more common scenarios when someone doesn’t want to look for a new job even when critical situations arise. I’m talking about those who go down with a sinking ship. The ship being the company for which they’re employed, of course.If your company announces upcoming layoffs, that means the company is in trouble. Possibly not in fear of bankruptcy but it’s not doing as well as planned or expected. You know heads are going to roll but you don’t know if yours is going to be one of them.I’ve known people who have stuck it out till the very end. And where does that leave them? Without a job. and scrambling. Even if you are offered a severance p
When you believe something is possible then you will begin the search for a way to make it happen. If you also have a vision then you have an outcome and all you then require is a method. So you might say that the tipping point for change is flipping a limiting belief to an empowering belief, and the rest is like a collapsing house of cards, or a chain reaction creating the change.
The change can be instant when you choose a different focus, for example the following statement suggests an underlying belief that will lead to certain behaviour:
“People can't be trusted”
You can imagine the person with this belief having few true friends and creating a climate of mistrust wherever they go. Behaviour reflects belief.
“You have to work to earn money”
If there were a way of earning money without working, such as winning the lottery or making smart investments, this person is surely not going to be doing it. They will be too busy working for a living.
When you are looking for a new Accountancy job, along with your CV you must also enclose a cover letter to the company you are applying to. This is what the employer reads before the CV, so it is even more important that this stands out. The following pointers describe the things that should be avoided at all costs.Do not have a weak opening, for example, ‘please consider me for this role’. You need to grab the readers’ attention and highlight your most important skills that relate to the accountancy job you are applying to. For example, write ‘I am applying for the newly qualified accountancy role you have advertised in xxx. It would match my excellent 5 years experience in the accountancy industry’.Do not make it too short. Pull out your most relevant accountancy related skills and experiences that relate to the job and highlight these in the cover letter.Do not make it too long either. By waffling on about your previous accountancy job and the tasks you did in too much detail, the more likely you are to bore the reader. Keep it short, punchy and too the point.Do not us
So what stops people from changing quickly and easily? Is it their deep in-grained habits, or is it their beliefs? Or is it a mix of the two?
"What you become directly influences what you get."
Jim Rohn
It is clear that habits are very easy to repeat because the programme responsible for them is located in the unconscious part of the mind over which we seem to have little control. Yet over the years I have experienced rapid change in many individuals, and in myself. I recall how I would get frustrated sometimes when my children were at their most demanding, and how a simple and quick technique helped me to reframe and change my response. I learned to stay relaxed whilst also dealing with the onslaught of ‘Dad, I need you to ….’ There are also many examples of people who have changed in positive and quite dramatic ways as a result of attending our workshops.
Change can also be swift when faced with a significant life event like a serious illness, the death of someone close, a redundancy, or a newborn child coming into the family. In these cases we respond to changing demands upon us, or as a result of inner reflection about our sense of self, our behaviour towards others, and how we feel about ourselves. Sometimes we may witness an extraordinary feat by a disadvantaged individual that causes us to enter a state of reflection about the significance of our own lives.
Evidence of rapid change So what about change in large organisations? The public sector in the UK is a classic example of change taking a long time, as is the UK’s recently privatised transport system and congestion on the British roads is famous around the world. Sometimes we seem to be putting up with things, as inadequate as they are, for almost a lifetime without any change. But in contrast to these examples consider the change former president Lee Kuan Yew has brought about in Singapore, from a third-world British staging post in 1959 to a first-world economy within 30 years, and by 2000 having the world’s fourth highest per capita income.
Dr Henry Kissinger said of Lee Kuan Yew “Every great achievement is a dream before it becomes reality, and his vision was a state that would not simply survive but prevail by excelling”. When you look at China today you see another example of change happening visibly at the speed of light particularly in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. There are over 1.3 billion people in China desperately seeking change and we have only just begun to see the effect of Chinese entrepreneurial activity on world economies.
Adjust your focus So there is plenty of evidence of rapid change. But what do we tend to focus on when we know that change would be a good thing? I am certain that when we are feeling stuck or stagnant in an aspect of our work or life, or when we seek to change others, what we focus on will determine the speed at which a change will take place. One of the key reasons why some African countries have been unable to deal with poverty in the long term is that unlike Lee Kuan Yew the governments have chosen to focus on their own wealth and power.
So many people focus on the negative aspects of their mundane workaday lives, or the few benefits that they are privileged with, and hence they are unable to break out of their monotony. To change it helps if you have a belief that ‘you can and will’ and to have a vision of what’s possible. So it’s useful to be able to adjust your focus if what you are focusing on is limiting your vision of the possible.
When you listen to people who have a successful track record of creating positive change you find some common qualities. Rudy Giuliani emphasises the importance of being an optimist, having courage and getting your ideas into the hearts and minds of others, “If you want to be a leader you’ve got to be an optimist, so that when you are going through a difficult time you can visualise success and see the things you have to do to get there”. Bill Sweetenham, the British Olympic swimming coach talks about having to “sell your vision” and the need for “meticulous planning, sweat, belief and ambition”.
Whatever the change we want to bring about, either in ourselves, or in others, it certainly helps to have a positive, optimistic picture of what it is we want to see happen. So focus, vision, courage and ultimately belief lie at the beginning of change. When you encounter beliefs that are limiting the capability to change the first thing to do is deal with the belief.
When you believe something is possible then you will begin the search for a way to make it happen. If you also have a vision then you have an outcome and all you then require is a method. So you might say that the tipping point for change is flipping a limiting belief to an empowering belief, and the rest is like a collapsing house of cards, or a chain reaction creating the change.
The change can be instant when you choose a different focus, for example the following statement suggests an underlying belief that will lead to certain behaviour:
“People can't be trusted”
You can imagine the person with this belief having few true friends and creating a climate of mistrust wherever they go. Behaviour reflects belief.
“You have to work to earn money”
If there were a way of earning money without working, such as winning the lottery or making smart investments, this person is surely not going to be doing it. They will be too busy working for a living.
The salary that goes with nursing jobs has made this particular career very popular in several countries, particularly in the United States. It has been reported that the salary range of nurses starts at $35,000 and reaches as much as $100,000 a year.To enter a nursing school, a high school diploma is required. Apart from this, interested applicants may also be required to take a pre-admission test. In the United States, such a test is called the National League for Nursing Pre-admission exam.Education degrees in nursing have several varieties but the three most common are the bachelor's degree, associate's degree, and hospital diploma. Bachelor degrees in nursing are the most common course offerings in American universities. It is a four-year program that hones the skills of students regarding general nursing practices. This type of degree offers greater career opportunities, such as public health nursing, forensic nursing, and military nursing.Meanwhile, an associate's degree is a shorter program offered at community colleges. The training given to students enrolled unde
Change can also be swift when faced with a significant life event like a serious illness, the death of someone close, a redundancy, or a newborn child coming into the family. In these cases we respond to changing demands upon us, or as a result of inner reflection about our sense of self, our behaviour towards others, and how we feel about ourselves. Sometimes we may witness an extraordinary feat by a disadvantaged individual that causes us to enter a state of reflection about the significance of our own lives.
Evidence of rapid change So what about change in large organisations? The public sector in the UK is a classic example of change taking a long time, as is the UK’s recently privatised transport system and congestion on the British roads is famous around the world. Sometimes we seem to be putting up with things, as inadequate as they are, for almost a lifetime without any change. But in contrast to these examples consider the change former president Lee Kuan Yew has brought about in Singapore, from a third-world British staging post in 1959 to a first-world economy within 30 years, and by 2000 having the world’s fourth highest per capita income.
Dr Henry Kissinger said of Lee Kuan Yew “Every great achievement is a dream before it becomes reality, and his vision was a state that would not simply survive but prevail by excelling”. When you look at China today you see another example of change happening visibly at the speed of light particularly in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. There are over 1.3 billion people in China desperately seeking change and we have only just begun to see the effect of Chinese entrepreneurial activity on world economies.
Adjust your focus So there is plenty of evidence of rapid change. But what do we tend to focus on when we know that change would be a good thing? I am certain that when we are feeling stuck or stagnant in an aspect of our work or life, or when we seek to change others, what we focus on will determine the speed at which a change will take place. One of the key reasons why some African countries have been unable to deal with poverty in the long term is that unlike Lee Kuan Yew the governments have chosen to focus on their own wealth and power.
So many people focus on the negative aspects of their mundane workaday lives, or the few benefits that they are privileged with, and hence they are unable to break out of their monotony. To change it helps if you have a belief that ‘you can and will’ and to have a vision of what’s possible. So it’s useful to be able to adjust your focus if what you are focusing on is limiting your vision of the possible.
When you listen to people who have a successful track record of creating positive change you find some common qualities. Rudy Giuliani emphasises the importance of being an optimist, having courage and getting your ideas into the hearts and minds of others, “If you want to be a leader you’ve got to be an optimist, so that when you are going through a difficult time you can visualise success and see the things you have to do to get there”. Bill Sweetenham, the British Olympic swimming coach talks about having to “sell your vision” and the need for “meticulous planning, sweat, belief and ambition”.
Whatever the change we want to bring about, either in ourselves, or in others, it certainly helps to have a positive, optimistic picture of what it is we want to see happen. So focus, vision, courage and ultimately belief lie at the beginning of change. When you encounter beliefs that are limiting the capability to change the first thing to do is deal with the belief.
When you believe something is possible then you will begin the search for a way to make it happen. If you also have a vision then you have an outcome and all you then require is a method. So you might say that the tipping point for change is flipping a limiting belief to an empowering belief, and the rest is like a collapsing house of cards, or a chain reaction creating the change.
The change can be instant when you choose a different focus, for example the following statement suggests an underlying belief that will lead to certain behaviour:
“People can't be trusted”
You can imagine the person with this belief having few true friends and creating a climate of mistrust wherever they go. Behaviour reflects belief.
“You have to work to earn money”
If there were a way of earning money without working, such as winning the lottery or making smart investments, this person is surely not going to be doing it. They will be too busy working for a living.
"Bodacious" means to be bold, outstanding, and remarkable. Take those attributes to work and you're on your way to building a fulfilling, bodacious career. Does having a bodacious career sound exciting to you? It is! After starting as an $8 an hour customer service rep, I rose through the ranks of AOL, accepting four promotions and surviving over six layoffs to become the head of corporate training for 12,000 employees. Along the way I learned I needed to be bodacious to achieve the career I wanted. Out of that experience I created my "cheat sheet" of ten essential Bodacious Career Builders. Here's number four: Actively Market Your ValueOne day while I was driving north on the interstate to speak at Princeton University, a billboard suddenly caught my attention. Amongst all the other colorful billboards promoting products and services that to this day I can't remember, this billboard was white with some simple black lettering. In large letters it read: Don't Advertise! "Huh?" I thought. Then I read the smaller writing below the alarming statement: Success is Overrated. "What?! staging post in 1959 to a first-world economy within 30 years, and by 2000 having the world’s fourth highest per capita income.
Dr Henry Kissinger said of Lee Kuan Yew “Every great achievement is a dream before it becomes reality, and his vision was a state that would not simply survive but prevail by excelling”. When you look at China today you see another example of change happening visibly at the speed of light particularly in the modern metropolis of Shanghai. There are over 1.3 billion people in China desperately seeking change and we have only just begun to see the effect of Chinese entrepreneurial activity on world economies.
Adjust your focus So there is plenty of evidence of rapid change. But what do we tend to focus on when we know that change would be a good thing? I am certain that when we are feeling stuck or stagnant in an aspect of our work or life, or when we seek to change others, what we focus on will determine the speed at which a change will take place. One of the key reasons why some African countries have been unable to deal with poverty in the long term is that unlike Lee Kuan Yew the governments have chosen to focus on their own wealth and power.
So many people focus on the negative aspects of their mundane workaday lives, or the few benefits that they are privileged with, and hence they are unable to break out of their monotony. To change it helps if you have a belief that ‘you can and will’ and to have a vision of what’s possible. So it’s useful to be able to adjust your focus if what you are focusing on is limiting your vision of the possible.
When you listen to people who have a successful track record of creating positive change you find some common qualities. Rudy Giuliani emphasises the importance of being an optimist, having courage and getting your ideas into the hearts and minds of others, “If you want to be a leader you’ve got to be an optimist, so that when you are going through a difficult time you can visualise success and see the things you have to do to get there”. Bill Sweetenham, the British Olympic swimming coach talks about having to “sell your vision” and the need for “meticulous planning, sweat, belief and ambition”.
Whatever the change we want to bring about, either in ourselves, or in others, it certainly helps to have a positive, optimistic picture of what it is we want to see happen. So focus, vision, courage and ultimately belief lie at the beginning of change. When you encounter beliefs that are limiting the capability to change the first thing to do is deal with the belief.
When you believe something is possible then you will begin the search for a way to make it happen. If you also have a vision then you have an outcome and all you then require is a method. So you might say that the tipping point for change is flipping a limiting belief to an empowering belief, and the rest is like a collapsing house of cards, or a chain reaction creating the change.
The change can be instant when you choose a different focus, for example the following statement suggests an underlying belief that will lead to certain behaviour:
“People can't be trusted”
You can imagine the person with this belief having few true friends and creating a climate of mistrust wherever they go. Behaviour reflects belief.
“You have to work to earn money”
If there were a way of earning money without working, such as winning the lottery or making smart investments, this person is surely not going to be doing it. They will be too busy working for a living.
The Internet is a very useful tool for job seekers as it is a great source of information. Also, taking into account of a more wired world, getting online has never been easier. People can cost-effectively get Internet access in public libraries at broadband speeds. But with the fear of information overload, many job seekers do not fully utilize the many advantages of the Internet. This is never a good development.Here are some tips for job seekers:Viewing Corporate WebsitesBefore going for an interview, it is recommended to view the company’s corporate mission statement and goals. This information is readily provided in the company’s corporate website and should also be free of charge.Industry InformationIf you are interested in understanding the employment viability of a particular industry, you can use the search engine to get online information. You will be instantly directed to online newsletters (normally at no charge) and be able to see if you have the necessary skills to achieve career advancement.E-learningMany job seekers are not fully harne focus on the negative aspects of their mundane workaday lives, or the few benefits that they are privileged with, and hence they are unable to break out of their monotony. To change it helps if you have a belief that ‘you can and will’ and to have a vision of what’s possible. So it’s useful to be able to adjust your focus if what you are focusing on is limiting your vision of the possible.
When you listen to people who have a successful track record of creating positive change you find some common qualities. Rudy Giuliani emphasises the importance of being an optimist, having courage and getting your ideas into the hearts and minds of others, “If you want to be a leader you’ve got to be an optimist, so that when you are going through a difficult time you can visualise success and see the things you have to do to get there”. Bill Sweetenham, the British Olympic swimming coach talks about having to “sell your vision” and the need for “meticulous planning, sweat, belief and ambition”.
Whatever the change we want to bring about, either in ourselves, or in others, it certainly helps to have a positive, optimistic picture of what it is we want to see happen. So focus, vision, courage and ultimately belief lie at the beginning of change. When you encounter beliefs that are limiting the capability to change the first thing to do is deal with the belief.
When you believe something is possible then you will begin the search for a way to make it happen. If you also have a vision then you have an outcome and all you then require is a method. So you might say that the tipping point for change is flipping a limiting belief to an empowering belief, and the rest is like a collapsing house of cards, or a chain reaction creating the change.
The change can be instant when you choose a different focus, for example the following statement suggests an underlying belief that will lead to certain behaviour:
“People can't be trusted”
You can imagine the person with this belief having few true friends and creating a climate of mistrust wherever they go. Behaviour reflects belief.
“You have to work to earn money”
If there were a way of earning money without working, such as winning the lottery or making smart investments, this person is surely not going to be doing it. They will be too busy working for a living.
Business cards are one of the most powerful and inexpensive marketing tools you can use. Here are 50 surefire tips to make the most out of your business cards:Your business card must communicate more than just your contact information. Make sure that your card includes a tag line that explains what you or your company do. Order them in large numbers. By ordering 1000 your cost per card will be significantly lower than if you ordered 500.Even if you can produce your business cards at home using an inkjet printer, have your business cards professionally made by a printing company. Your business card will be the first impression your prospects receive of your business, so let them convey the best possible one.Avoid using standard clip art as your business logo. A logo brings credibility and brand awareness, so before you invest in business cards have a logo professionally made for your business. Nowadays, there are online companies that can produce a professional logo for as little as $25, so there is no excuse for not having otely belief lie at the beginning of change. When you encounter beliefs that are limiting the capability to change the first thing to do is deal with the belief.
When you believe something is possible then you will begin the search for a way to make it happen. If you also have a vision then you have an outcome and all you then require is a method. So you might say that the tipping point for change is flipping a limiting belief to an empowering belief, and the rest is like a collapsing house of cards, or a chain reaction creating the change.
The change can be instant when you choose a different focus, for example the following statement suggests an underlying belief that will lead to certain behaviour:
“People can't be trusted”
You can imagine the person with this belief having few true friends and creating a climate of mistrust wherever they go. Behaviour reflects belief.
“You have to work to earn money”
If there were a way of earning money without working, such as winning the lottery or making smart investments, this person is surely not going to be doing it. They will be too busy working for a living.
“Wonder who’s going to frustrate me today”
So this person is going to spend the day looking for someone to frustrate them. Imagine what could happen if this same person were to drop that belief and instead hold beliefs suggested by the following statement:
“Wonder how much I can learn about people today”
And think about all the activity at work that often creates limiting beliefs, like the following examples:
“Oh well, another meeting with X – what a waste of time this is going to be yet again”
“My job is getting to be a real pain these days”
The statements we utter about the situations we are in, and the experiences we have had, or are about to have, all reflect our beliefs. It’s no good arguing or debating with each other when we are holding beliefs of this nature – it’s really a waste of time. But where are we taught about the impact our beliefs have? Certainly not at school, university, or conventional corporate training programmes. But learning how beliefs are formed, how they affect us, and how to change them is crucial to the personal and organisational change process. Take the following statement as an example of how beliefs limit personal performance:
“Why am I so uncertain and anxious about X?”
Underneath the anxiety and uncertainty we will surely find a limiting self-belief. If this were not the case this person would simply ask for help in some form or another, perhaps training or coaching. But what often happens is that the limiting self-beliefs about our capability prevent us from being open about our needs, and we fool ourselves into thinking that we ‘should really know’ how to perform well. We may even cover up our inadequacies. There is a common saying that most people spend their time at work ‘hoping they never get found out as impostors’. Our egos can have too much control over our thinking and our behaviour.
Belief change techniques When you change a belief you open up the possibility for all kinds of new behaviour to emerge, behaviour that always had potential but had been locked away by the belief. It’s like the frog in the bottom of the well that looks up and sees but a small circle of sky and believes that to be the entire universe. So change can happen quickly, if you believe that it can – and that’s the real challenge with change, and there is a growing array of belief change techniques available today.
One of the simplest, yet very powerful techniques we use in our workshops is THIS-not-THAT helping you to adjust your focus and reframe the way you have been thinking. Once you have learned this technique you will have it to use on all the beliefs you had not realised are limiting your potential.
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