CHAPTER 22

Change

Life is about growing. If you don’t change, you don’t grow. If you don’t grow, be prepared to feel massive amounts of pain. You see, life wants the best for us. It wants us to be the best we can be. So it guides us with a nudge. But if we ignore the nudge, it whacks us sideways.

Think about it: when do we finally learn about people management? When we lose our key people. When do we start to seek a better work/life balance? When our body or family is falling apart. When do we try to find our true vocation? After we’ve been passed up for promotion or made redundant. For many, if there’s no pain then there’s no impetus to change. But life doesn’t have to be a series of painful lessons, if we listen to the gentle signals. ...

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