Why (re)IMAGINING (aka Change) Is Difficult

"We are either breaking out of our spirit depleting routines and breaking through to new insights and experiences, or we are breaking down."  

Good Morning Folks,

Why do our clients love us? 

Because everyday we do a little more than the expected. 

Everyday we open our eyes to see what else we can do to serve, to make our presence known, solve problems, and to help our client. 

Everyday we smile, say good morning, and make someone feel good about themselves. 

Everyday we (re)IMAGINE!

(re)IMAGINE is not just something we do... It is who we are. (re)IMAGINE is that skip, fire and twinkle; the clean, pressed career apparel; the morning smile! (re)IMAGINE is alive and well every time you do a little more. Think through a problem, go the extra mile, do more than expected, provide a solution... (re)IMAGINE!

But it's not easy to change. 

G. K. Chesterton wrote, "If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. If you leave a white post alone it will soon be a black post. If you particularly want it to be white you must be always painting it again; that is, you must be always having a revolution."

Without intervention, without progressive change, without revolution, everything in our work and our lives gets worse. Our bodies degrade, our relationships fizzle, our jobs disappear, and our ideas become obsolete (it has happened to countless organizations and to some of my friends). 

Face it: We are either breaking out of our spirit depleting routines and breaking through to new insights and experiences, or we are breaking down.  

To want to look for new and different, and perhaps, more sustainable ways of doing things is one of the hardest skills to master in business. Master Sales Blogger Anthony Iannarino puts it this way:

"Change is more difficult than you believe. Having an intellectual understanding the reason something needs to change isn’t enough. An emotional need to change is necessary and more powerful. 

Change is psychological. You first have to have a shift in your mindset, your personal philosophy, your personal psychology. Without that shift, there will be no change. 

Why something is being changed is more important than how that change is accomplished. 

Change takes longer than you believe. It takes longer to sell, longer to build consensus, and longer to execute before results are seen. It is mistake to believe the results of change will be realized quickly, even though change happens in a second. 

Change comes with built-in enemies. The very fact that you are trying to make change will cause some to oppose you. Resistance is your enemy when you try to change yourself. 

Most change initiatives die not because the idea isn’t good or necessary but because it was poorly executed. The change is usually poorly executed because it lacks executive engagement. People are exceptionally gifted at waiting out change initiatives. 

We overestimate what we can accomplish in a short period of time and underestimate what we accomplish over a longer period. When results don’t come fast, change initiatives are often abandoned. The better results were only a little bit further. 

Sometimes change initiatives fail because too many variables are changed at once. One major change might have been enough to produce a result, but because so much was attempted, nothing really changed. When too much is changed, you can’t easily figure out what is working and what isn’t. 

Radical change very quickly becomes the new status quo. It soon develops its own defenders who protect it from future change."

So .. when the opportunity to step out of your comfort zone screams at you, and it will definitely come, take it. Say no to the sure thing and say yes to a creative challenge. Say no to short-term, comfort producing activities, and say yes to fear and passion.

Today, team, lets 's do what's makes us unique and what makes us the best outsourcing company on the planet, go (re)IMAGINE and do a little more. It is that little more, that (re)IMAGINE, that creates clients that love us, creates growth, creates opportunities, creates more clients. (re)IMAGINE today!

Have a GREAT day. Love LIFE!

Mitchell D. Weiner
Chief Happiness Officer

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"The world steps aside to let any man pass if he knows where he is going."
~~ David S. Jordan
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