Until you cash-in your chips Wholesale Howard Wilson Jersey , consider yourself a Work-In-Progress (W-I-P), as if you were a Picasso unfinished painting which he returned to again and again.
Your W-I-P attitude leads to active personal growth and self-improvement while you keep adding and subtracting from your knowledge and belief core, (your painting), and stay willing to change your mind.
Those of us who believe we are a finished-product, stop learning and experiencing, leading to an extreme state of comfort-zone-itis. We inhibit our left and right brains, instead of exciting and firing our synapses of discovery.
Our comfort-zone is where we make decisions about right-and-wrong, what's important Wholesale Emmanuel Ogbah Jersey , and what we are capable of doing. Have you recently attempted something for the first-time, using some new electronic gadget or using a special computer program, and heard your still-small-voice whisper in your ear, - You cannot learn that, it's too complicated! ?
Some of us feel a cold chill in the pit of our stomach warning us of impending doom when we face change and newness! Do you keep trying or get up and walk away?
Those who kick-butte are willing to fail more than snailers, and continue to attempt new approaches. They maintain a belief system, an attitude of mind, to keep trying until they find a way Wholesale Larry Ogunjobi Jersey , or make a way, to succeed. That's called grit.
Comfort-Zone
There are scientific-facts like gravity and electromagnetism, simply reality, based on personal experience, and beliefs, which come from our family, community and education. Repetition and conditioning create our comfort-zone, and after age 25 we stop revisiting our beliefs and submit to their dictatorship.
How many beliefs do we hold that are plain wrong because times have changed Wholesale David Njoku Jersey , or our decision years ago about people, have not kept up with their personal growth?
Scientists seem to lack the ego of the rest of society, who must protect and defend its unchanging beliefs. In any given year scientific journals will report new proofs that contradict what was once proven-truth, and inform us of a new reality. They are stronger because they welcome change in their beliefs.
The rest of us, including the author, suffer from distortion-thinking, unrealistic expectations, and twisted self-perception Wholesale Jabrill Peppers Jersey , leading us to beliefs in fables, myths and outright lies. The media, government bureaucrats, and Washington lobbyists, in addition to Eisenhower's industrial-military complex, drug companies and oil producers, have a vested interest in not disturbing our dormant comfort-zone.
Disruption
Learning only occurs when there is a disruption of our comfort-zone rituals. That's why we have to experience a disaster, even hit-bottom Wholesale Myles Garrett Jersey , before we can change a core belief we hold about ourselves and our gifts and talents.
We don't -think- our way to changing beliefs; there must an emotional explosion that shakes up our brain and mind.
Your Career
Most of us get comfortable in our career, like putting our feet into old shoes. We stop questioning if the job we do is right for us, permanent or where else we can best develop our genetic gifts and talents. The status quo becomes a core belief in our comfort-zone.
Did you know that the average executive changes careers five-times in a lifetime?
Not jobs or companies, but lifestyles and occupations. Will you be comfortable with the coming upheavals in your life? What's your competitive-advantage?
A recent report by the National Academies, a hot-shot advisory group with no axe to grind, specializing in Science and Technology, warns that heavy-weight corporate changes are three (3) years away.
Downsizing, outsourcing Wholesale Baker Mayfield Jersey , bankruptcies, and mergers and acquisitions, lead to catastrophic changes in your life, ready-or-not. Are you really insulated from change? What's your unique competitive advantage over your peers?
You are familiar with the expansion in China and India, but you might be interested in knowing that almost forty (40) percent of major U.S. corporation are moving some of their highest paying positions overseas. No, not yours, right?
Not Just Industrial
It began with cheaper labor costs, increased because of tax incentives by the foreign companies Wholesale Nick Chubb Jersey , and now is focused on science and technology. Domestic executives and professionals are rapidly being replaced with international staffers who are highly trained and fully competent. Yes, they are paid one-third of U.S. financial packages.
Fortune 500 companies like Exxon and Dow have always operated internationally, but by 2009, small companies will market coast-to-coast, and continent-to-continent. Yes, it's the Internet, and global trading practices, and it will affect your life Wholesale Denzel Ward Jersey , and disturb your sense of status-quo.
The Talent
Today, talent is global; universities in China and India are producing world-class graduates, PhDs in science and technology, and training executives for international management. International companies are linked by scholarships they finance, with emerging markets schools, and their new graduates.
Many of these students have proven fully capable of running departments and divisions, and producing impressive profits. Yes, they are fluent in English Wholesale Austin Seibert Jersey , thanks to their education and the Internet.
The author of the Outsourcing Report, Professor Marie Thursby, of Georgia Tech College of Management, says the coming revolution is based on a working collaboration between companies and international universities that are already established and growing. She has examined fifteen industries and companies in the U.S. and Europe, and sees explosive change as a fait accompli, though existing executives and professionals seem unconcerned and unaware.