Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!

No one has been able to predict the future. Nostradamus had a pretty good record for those willing to give license to his poetry but a little digging debunks any myths around real accuracy.

So as we wander through our life, we can’t predict what will happen to us no matter how much we want things to stay the same, or change…If things are good, we long for consistency and continuation. If things are bad, we pray for positive change.

We certainly live in interesting times where the stories of someone working in the same job at the same company their entire career is more rare than ever. Whether challenge or opportunity, change and ensuing disruption seems to be the only constant.

Heraclitus said, “No man steps into the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.”

If someone moved your cheese, are you continually scampering back to where it was or are you charging forward looking for more?

As we consider what made for more might mean in this context:

•Is it a longer day, looking harder for what used to be (i.e. your old block of cheese)?

•Is it a dramatic change of pace where you have higher impact on more people, an increase in influence?

•Is it doing something that resonates so deeply that no matter the amount of time or degree of influence associated, it feels like this is what you were made to do, with more personal significance?

The older I get, the stronger the feeling that everyone has high potential. We are all made for more. You can’t expect to reach your goals and aspirations without being pushed, pulled, scared, coerced or whatever event might serve as the catalyst to get you to realize your full potential.

We are all made for more. To be bigger and better than what we were (or are). It might look like a promotion or it could be a layoff. Regardless, change is inevitable, you can’t predict the timing and how you react is the only thing in your control.

Have a blessed weekend!

Eric