Change

I admire people who can change a habit. I think changing habits is the hardest thing to do.  Why are we so governed by the indiosyncratic ways we do things?

We live in an ever changing enviroment.  Every day we face situations unlike any we have faced before.   This revolving novelty requires a fresh set of eyes and a blank-slate perspective if we are to handle life head-on.

So why the habits? 

• To give us control over the environment.   With the environment feeding us a steady diet of change, it feels good to have some certainty. 
• To provide a safety-helmet until we are prepared to meet life undefended and highly responsive.
• Laziness.  It's easier to coast in the status quo then to move up and on.

But to hunker down and stay put is, eventually, the same as stepping off the ledge and going down.  Stay in place too long while the current of life flows onward and you finally end of behind where you started. 

They say that the rate of change is coming faster with the internet, better and more pervasive time-management systems, and  round-the-clock cells phones, pagers and instant messaging.  Even school children are instructed in palm pilot usage and schedule their play dates.  I believe that the survivors in the next turn of our collective time wheel are going to be those people who master the art of the quick change.  Someone who can identify in April something isn't working  and by August have completely turned around their unproductive habit. 

More glory to them. They will be certifiable masters of personal development.