The Shift

The only thing certain in the world is change. If you haven’t encountered the ‘shift’ video’s on YouTube yet, check out this one.

Is it an uncertain future when the job you may be working at in five years hasn’t been invented yet or is it a time of incredible opportunity?

Have we lost the ability to plan for our future or has the world of possibility just opened before us?

Did knowing that we would be working at the factory until we retired free us to live our lives or did it chain us to something that did not allow us to grow to our potential?

At this point I’m reminded of the story of the trained fleas. I believe it’s a story told by Zig Ziglar. You put some fleas in a jar and cover it. The fleas jump and hit the lid. After a while the fleas stop jumping so high and so avoid hitting the lid. Now you can remove the lid and the fleas will not jump out. They have been trained to jump just below the level of the lid. My question for you, did the factory system which employed our people for so many years train us like the fleas: that we go only so high, that our goals were only so high, that it was safe to go only so high and no higher?

Can you envision the life you want in five years, ten years? Not how you will achieve the life, but the life that you want? John Lennon said: “life is what happens to us when we set out to do something else.”

Interesting times, interesting video.

Tagged as: vision, Zig Ziglar