Create Wealth Through a Change in Attitude

Consider the significant amount of money that is invested by corporations each and every year in an effort to effect changes in their employees. For some there is significant success, whilst for others, the money seems to have been wasted.

Enter most corporate buildings and you will see emblazoned in their foyers and on their confidence packs, their mission statement. They always look impressive, and they sound good, but are they really what the business is all about? Are these corporations really doing what they purport to be doing? Or are these mission statements simply sugar-coated front covers that serve as a substitute, perhaps even a pretense of action? Is it the case that corporate managers are hoping that the display of warm words will help their companies grow?

Why do people persistently resist change? Is it because workers simply don't care, or is it that the packages are poorly delivered? Is resistance deliberate? Or is it purely a case of hard-wiring and resistance to new ways that is part of our human conditioning? Could change work more successfully perhaps if management worked in incremental, sequential steps that lead workers reassuringly and gently to the desired goal?

Think about the weight loss industry. It exists purely for change and growth but it thrives because of failure, not failure of the industry itself, but failure of the clients who keep the businesses afloat. You see if the industries were in fact successful, then their client base would drop off and we would have a nation of fit, healthy human beings.

So what is the problem? Why is there so much failure generally?

The answer is pretty clear to both problems. Just receiving the message and knowing its value, is not enough. We all know that if we want to be healthy, we must eat a given amount of fruit and vegetables every day. But how many of us actually do that?

You see as individuals we have to really want to make a change. There has to be a deep-seated desire to grow. At the same time, we also have to be willing to make some sacrifices along the way in order to do so.

Some of the most difficult things to change are entrenched habits. The reality is that is is difficult to make changes. It demands mental and physical energy. It requires courage. We need to spend quality time on it. It's an uphill battle and we have to be convinced that when we get to the top of the hill, the view on the other side is worth the effort. We also have to be convinced that taking a leap of faith into uncharted territory is better than the alternative of standing still. In other words, change has to be managed.

In reality, we have to make the decision to believe and trust in ourselves, we have to nourish the willingness to grow and develop, and banish fear, before anything significant can happen. To embrace change we need to turn our thinking away from thoughts like, it won't work, it can't be done, to how can it work and how can we do it? Manage each of these steps well, and change will follow