It’s IS (not) my job & other reasons (not) TO change (or learn)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Training & development
I recently wrote a post called It’s not my job & other reasons not to change (or learn). I thought I’d turn it around for this post. Won’t you join me?
Here are my reasons to change. My goal is to hit 50. I’ll add more as time goes on. What are yours? Feel free to add them in the comment section.
- You have to ask? Really?
- My environment demands it. I live in Africa. I’m constantly assessing, reassessing, changing & learning.
- It’s my job.
- How can I ask others to change & learn if I won’t?
- It keeps things interesting
- To shake things up
- To build on what’s working & make it better
- It’s exciting
- I’m ambitious
- It’s in my DNA (& yours)
- To keep up
- To catch up
- To be on the cusp
- To explore
- For the adventure
- The adrenaline learning brings is brain candy to me
- It keeps me creative
- I can always do better
- Because I can
- Because I should
- Because I want to
- It keeps my brain young
- To stimulate my brain
- It’s mandatory being a parent
- It’s mandatory being a woman
- It’s mandatory being human
- It’s how learning happens
- It’s necessary for human development
- It beats back resistance (mine included)
- It beats back boredom (mine especially)
Over to you change agent. What would you add?
Tags: change management
February 1st, 2012 at 9:04 am
Its a big one to embrace change –
February 21st, 2012 at 1:13 pm
Hi Lee-Ann:
Perhaps tearing, breaking, pain, and messes are part and parcel with building, layering, adding to and blending. Change can come in many ways from heart attacks to wind erosion, and – maybe – need not be any of these exclusively. Another metaphor…think of making bread, and the processes that range from your kneeding the dough to the minute chemical reactions that are happening as you do so. It may seem, as you do so, that it is a more inert change involving layering to and adding, but really it is quite a bit more dramatic than that – just on a smaller scale.
Perhaps I am more mindful of the tearing and exertion metaphors because of whom I am and where I am at in life. I also wonder about life cycles – progress and progressing ultimately to the end of life. Change happening through just being.
In the end, all those more physical, action-oriented changes of tearing and ripping fibers lead to the changes of layering and building of the muscle that you suggest.
February 22nd, 2012 at 2:54 am
Hi Patrick
Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments. I think you’re bang on. It’s tough though when the expectation is often ‘nice, tidy & neat’ is the way to go. A friend of mine, Vinod Boolell, a judge at the UN (see the to-do post recently which mentions him – first in a series) did a big makeover of his lifestyle based on some major health issues with his son. It caused him to rethink things & as a result, live a much healthier (more fit) life.
When I think back to some big, messy changes in my life, more often than naught they ended up very positive. It can be hard to see the muscle building (see outside the black clouds) when you’re in the middle of it. It’s only after, upon looking back that I can dissect, probe & take advantage of all the chemical reactions, previously unseen, that were happening when the ‘dough was rising.’