Hi Friends

I found this interesting piece in one of the email forwards and it is worth posting it

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The only thing any of us can know for certain is that life will continue to change at a rapid pace. For most of us, this uncertainty isn’t fun. Therefore, the best thing—perhaps the only thing—we can do to prepare ourselves for life in the future is to learn how to change.

Ability to adapt is the key [to] success in these turbulent times. It’s the capacity to be flexible and resourceful in the face of ever-changing conditions. To respond in a resilient and productive manner when change is required. Another name for it is agility which is ranked in a recent McKinsey survey as extremely important to business success—more now than ever before.

To be successful in life, three kinds of mastery are required:

-Mastery with self, which means understanding our feelings and thoughts and how to regulate and direct them,
-Mastery with others, which means being able to create shared understanding and shared action, and
-Mastery with change, which means having the capacity to adapt easily without losing our center—our values, talents, and sense of purpose.
Here we are talking here about the third kind. But do you know how to change easily? It’s a very rare capacity, because most of us don’t understand the science of it or how to work with the way our brains are structured, to make it as painless as possible.

The Top-Ten change sinkholes are:

-Getting stuck in denial
-Becoming paralyzed by fear and/or shame
-Spending a lot of time and energy on blame and/or regret
-Believing there is nothing you can do
-Focusing on the problem, rather than the solution
-Using only solutions that have worked in the past to solve new problems
-“Yes, but”-ing all options
-Not getting in touch with what gives you meaning and purpose
-Going it alone
-Resisting or refusing to learn new things because it takes extra effort
-Developing the ability to adapt keeps us out of detrimental habits of the brain and in touch with all our mind’s resources.

In order to not only merely survive, but to thrive during the greatest period of transformation humans have ever experienced, we are all being called on to stretch mentally, emotionally, and spiritually into the future … and master the art of AdaptAbility.