FINDING THE RIGHT LEVER FOR CHANGE...

"Hope is the bedrock of this nation, the belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be." ~ Barack Obama.

Barrack Obama's language sounds like a real driver for change as opposed to a polititian in his head start for the race to presedency in the white house. Carl Jung, one of the twentieth century's leading thinkers in psychology, once famously said, ' we cannot change anththing until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.' And he was right becuase the first step to coping with change is to accept that it is happening. Then you are in a position to proactively work with it and give yourself choices rather than wait to be on the receiving end of whatever happens to you.

Three requirements need to be in place for change to happen. You must:

1) Want to change

2) Know how to change

3) Get or create the opportunity to change

Ask yourself the question: ' How can you make change easy for yourself?

Apply this to yourself as an individual and your organisation.

Here is Barack Obama's victory speech in Iowa conveying the message of change......