Resiliency and the Change Curve

Progress is well, progressive.?

?The founder of Spanx talks about taking customer service calls from the bathroom in the startup days.? Now, she enjoys a multi-million dollar lifestyle.? It did not start that way.

Ray Kroc, the builder of the McDonald’s empire, spent more than a few years going from project to project until he bought out a couple of small restaurants from the McDonald brothers.? He left billions of dollars in charitable giving in his lifetime.

The Beatles played backroom bars in Germany for years before their “sound” was discovered.

Moses floundered around in the desert for forty years tending sheep before his burning bush shifted him from obscurity to international historical figure and cultural influencer.

Nelson Mandela wasted in prison for years before his genius was released to change his nation and the world’s view of fairness.

Progress is well, progressive.

There are defining moments and the momentum that accompanies.? But, each drive of momentum is accompanied by energy, failure, get back up, favor, disfavor, and struggle.? Those big monuments of what we deem success based on dollars and influence come from continued application of principles.? Progress includes learning and relearning.?

?All of that happens in an environment.? Some environments are more akin to growth.? Some environments must be wrestled into growth.? But any environment can be transformed.? A slave culture of unjust dominance resulted in the people of Israel living across all continents in success.? The thrashing out of the United States through revolution, slavery, racial injustices, civil war, world wars, and economic transformation gives us what we have today in a world economic and military powerhouse.

All transformations occur with talent, knowledge, skill, and ability.? There is momentum and event.? There is environment.? There is you in all your ‘you-ness’.? That single mix of personality, passion, persistence, promise, premise, propensity, position, providence, path, and projection makes up the thumbprint of you.? That thumbprint is poised to perform.

What about you?? What environment needs wrestling?? What factors are positive to growth already? Where are you headed?? Going is a good place to go if you know where you are going.? Where are you going?

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These questions help us make the next step decisions with a reasonable view of our environmental issues.? Plan on success with consideration of who you are and in what environment of support or resistance you function

?Now, let’s consider the change curve.? Every effort occurs in an environment of others.? Every effort includes our personal mix.? Every effort goes through what seems at first to be less productive as we work through modifications to both the environment and us.? The movie, Inside Out 2 shows some great working out of a young woman on puberty.? The clash and thrash of new emotions and new challenges and new people result in an adjusted sense of self in the heroine. The core message is you can’t just take the positive, you absorb the negative.? That is true in our efforts to progress.

As we plummet in productivity through a change, we find handholds.? We process resistance.? We overcome our fears.? We adapt to the environment.? We modify the environment.? Productivity rises.? It continues to rise when we continue to adapt.? With a good change, we find a new leveling off in better productivity and contentedness. It takes time.? It takes adaptation.? It takes going through the curve.

In all this process there is a growth personally.? Our adaptability, our insights, and our strength of character and commitment grows to the positive.? We are stronger for the journey.? Our resilience to future challenges is more stable and effective.? Change is good for us in the short term and the long haul.

Be more resilient.

Embrace that life mission of a better life forward.

Phil

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