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Do you Stand With or Against the Winds of Change?
When the inevitable happens, and change is inevitable, how you face it impacts if it will be good or bad for you.
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” — Chinese Proverb
This is an apropos metaphor for the world we live in today. When you are faced with change you can either harness it or put barriers in its way.
Like it or not, change is inevitable. It happens all the time, and you cannot stop it. However, you can influence, direct, and even sometimes control it.
Like most things you face in life, this is a choice. You get to decide if you will allow change to scare you and set your thoughts to loss, or if you will allow change to excite you and set your thoughts to opportunity. Both options are within the realm of possibility, but you get to choose.
There are a lot of people across the world today who are utterly terrified of change. Many leaders cash in on this by playing on those fears to disempower the masses while grabbing power for themselves. This is why Brexit is an issue, why Trump and his white-supremacist supporters have overwhelmed the US government, and why religious fundamentalists keep women and those they deem insufficiently…
