It’s interesting moving to a different organisation. Things that you have been taking for granted suddenly can’t be taken for granted anymore. Your frame of reference needs adjustment. Your weapons need sharpening or you need to learn a new style of fighting.
That’s why I guess many people dislike change. It’s uncomfortable. It’s bumpy. It’s inconvenient. Why make life harder for myself, if I can just cruise along, doing the thing that I’ve always been doing?
What’s important to recognise in these situations, is that change is the only constant, i.e., change will always happen, whether you like it or not. So don’t bother fighting the change, but learn how to deal with it. Like how some martial arts are all about using your enemy’s force, re-channeling it to defeat your enemy.
Change makes you re-frame and drives the need to re-centre. Those that do well despite constant changes are the strongest of them all. Because they know at first instance, how to move in ways that will derive the most benefit to self in any change situation.
Hence the need to be resilient.
However, understanding this and putting it into practice are two different things. And that’s why there’s a need for change management.
The biggest lesson that I’ve learnt so far, is that things are not going to be plain sailing, but if I can thrive despite of the bumps, I’ll be a stronger person from it. Like they say, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.
To be honest, I’m quite affected by something that happened tonight. I believe that it’s because I took things for granted. I thought the situation was the same as before. But I was wrong. I guess one other thing I’ve learnt is that when you are in a safe environment, shielded by others, you can get weak. Not prepared for the slings and arrows that fly and are not blocked by the shields.
Well, nothing to do now but to pick myself up, learn from the incident, and move on. This incident has taught me in other ways, what I should not be as I progress in my life.
Good night.
