Awaken

I had a conversation today with a friend following a question he asked on Twitter and Facebook about change. This is something I've thought and written about before but I found myself discovering an even greater sense of clarity.

Here's the question my friend asked:

"Why do people struggle so much with change?"

And here was my response:

"Because we don't do it enough. We struggle with the unfamiliar more than change itself I think. What if change was familiar?"

This idea of unfamiliarity rather than change itself being the issue was what really stood out to me. And this inevitably led to a follow up question from my friend:

"How do we make change familiar?"

And I said:

"One of the things we do as an organisation is make small changes a lot. Seriously, we are constantly tweaking and changing how we go about doing life as an organisation. My reasoning behind this is simply to try and make change familiar so that when bigger, more important change is necessary, it is easier to accomplish. I actually believe in changing things for the sake of changing things just so as to cultivate a change ready culture within our organisation."

So there you have it, my latest thoughts on change.