With the exception of inert objects, everything else changes in
width, length, height or volume. Even a
person standing still is moving! As the others pass them and move forward, they
are in effect ‘moving’ backwards.
When American Christopher Schole’s first typewriting machine was
manufactured in 1872, he little thought that it would become the modern
computer. Yet constant evolution has made it so.
Growth and the acceptance of change are crucial in your mind-set and
in the achievement of wealth and success.
I remember when a German partner visited me over a decade and a half
ago and saw an electric typing machine in my office and cried with horror, “You
still using this museum piece?!”
Today, with my computer I work smarter lending credence to the fact
that those who do not stay abreast with change lose.
Johnnie Cass says that resisting change is so counterproductive and
such a waste of energy. This reminds me of an old text on the evolution in the
telecommunications sector. Remarking that some governments were resisting the privatization of their state-controlled telecoms companies, it warned that they
could delay the revolution but not prevent it. And if they tried, they would
merely fail more spectacularly later.
This also applies to you. Your growth—not only through adopting new
objects but also changing within—will determine your wealth and success.
It is evident that with time your needs, age, education, emotional
mood, business partners, society, environment, bank rates, value of money and
many others will change. Since you can’t do anything about this, the best is to
accept change as inevitable and adapt your strategy when necessary and stay
focused.
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