"Embrace change"- a wrist band
I sat in a hotel lobby the other day. A young gentlemen was there to interview. He was smiling and we struck up a conversation.
While talking I noticed his wrist band. It said, "embrace change". I asked him what it meant to him and he said that it was an extra wrist band that his cousin had given him. In other words it had no special meaning. Maybe it looked cool.
I thought the slogan was cool and spent some time thinking about what it meant to embrace change. To me it means that when my deck gets shuffled I respond by thinking first and then executing my plan. Accepting the event that has changed is the key. Often times wed want to fight that reality instead of modifying our strategy.
If we know where we need to go then a change just slightly modifies our journey. It should not completely change it. I think by embracing it we relieve a lot of stress from believing that we can stop it.
The best way to explain it is to look at the difference of Aikido vs. other traditional martial art styles. Other styles confront an attack by reacting to it. Aikido welcomes the attack and uses it against the attacker. It "embraces" the attack.
Today's question is:
"Are you reacting or embracing change?"
I sat in a hotel lobby the other day. A young gentlemen was there to interview. He was smiling and we struck up a conversation.
While talking I noticed his wrist band. It said, "embrace change". I asked him what it meant to him and he said that it was an extra wrist band that his cousin had given him. In other words it had no special meaning. Maybe it looked cool.
I thought the slogan was cool and spent some time thinking about what it meant to embrace change. To me it means that when my deck gets shuffled I respond by thinking first and then executing my plan. Accepting the event that has changed is the key. Often times wed want to fight that reality instead of modifying our strategy.
If we know where we need to go then a change just slightly modifies our journey. It should not completely change it. I think by embracing it we relieve a lot of stress from believing that we can stop it.
The best way to explain it is to look at the difference of Aikido vs. other traditional martial art styles. Other styles confront an attack by reacting to it. Aikido welcomes the attack and uses it against the attacker. It "embraces" the attack.
Today's question is:
"Are you reacting or embracing change?"
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