Contents
Preface
Introduction: A History of Convergence
Part 1: The Change Factor
1. Everything changes
-An inevitability shared by all the inhabitants of the Earth
2. Reacting to change
-Our natural tendency: to act before thinking
3. Responding to change
-Essential life skills: Preparing for the unexpected, initiating a goal
4. Protection against change
-Safeguards against disappointment and frustration
5. Maximizing critical change
-Growth, creativity and innovation
Part 2: The Purpose of Change
6. Your only constant in change
-Nothing is permanent except God and his promises
7. The nature and characteristics of the seasons
-Change is built into creation
8. The global tides of change
-Ten areas that are converging to transform our world
9. Personal Purpose and Change
-Let your purpose guide you through times of transition
10. The biggest obstacle to positive change
-Outdated methods and traditions stifle innovation
11. The Challenge of Change
-Change tests and reveals who we are:
Part 3: Initiating Change in Your World
12. The mindset of the change agent
-Attitudes for interacting with change
13. Charting Your Course to a Preferred Path
-Essential Characteristics of a Focused Change
14. Overseeing change in your world
-Keys to planning and preparing for change
15. When you need a course correction
-It’s never too late to change!
16. Ten ways leaders can respond to change
-Change is inevitable. Change is necessary. Change is possible
-Principles for Emerging Leaders
A New Approach to Life
Notes
About the author
PREFACE
Nothing is as permanent as change. Understanding this paradoxical truth has transformed my life. Change protected me when I was young, and He protected me when I was young and guided me as an adult.
Change is natural to existence and common to all creation. Everything is constantly changing, and nothing can stop it. Change is proof that we are alive and proof that we are finite, for everything has its own season and nothing on this earth is eternal.
Change is a principle of creation. In short, everything changes. The simple statement that everything changes conveys a principle that can bring us great peace and understanding. If we accept the inescapable truth that nothing in our lives will remain the same, we can develop realistic levels of expectation and minimize our disappointments. We generally experience four types of change in life:
(1) change that occurs around us,
(2) change that happens with us
(3) the change that happens within us
(4) change that we cause.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is that only a small percentage of the world’s population responds effectively to change.
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