Over the past four months, change has been the most active verb in my world. Some examples:
New job
New roof
New walls
New carpet
New cable provider
New phone
New computer(s)
New office
New baby (on the way)
New Twitter feed to manage
New FB page(s)/group/profile
New, new, different, different.
And, no, I am not alone. We are all aware of the consistency and omnipresence of change.
However, we should be mindful not to let such consistency so easily stray to apathy. Not in our own lives, nor in our relationships with our co-workers.
Apathy about change? Apathy about consistency? Think of the last time you purposefully watched the sun rise and/or set. Apathy, unfortunately, reigns where consistency exists.
So think, this week, about your peers, your direct reports, your colleagues, and be aware of their personal shifting; though you do not need to hear the list of change that is occurring in each life, be aware that change is happening, nonetheless. When someone reaches out, or reaches in; seems short-tempered or long-winded; passes by your message or passes on your message, remember that change might just be the agent at work behind the scenes.
Sometimes a penny's-worth of change is not enough for us to notice. But perhaps it should be.
And, in case you missed it, the sun did rise this morning; just wish I had been mindful enough to see it.
shanti,
mjh
