No Better Moment to Change

There were six of us seated around a conference table evaluating employees and discussing how to create an employee buy-out program. We were fifteen minutes into the discussion when one of the managers said, "I have to say something". My first impulse was 'oh boy'. In the past when these kinds of statements came up it was something like 'I quit' or 'We gotta fire Joe' or 'Someone's stealing the coffee money'. But that wasn't the case this time.

"My best friend stopped by to see me last night," said the manager, "we went to grammar school together. The good news was that his company went IPO last year and he took home five and half million dollars. That was the good news. That same day he got the good news from his accountant he also got a call from his doctor. He had cancer; it had metastasized and was non-treatable. He had 6-8 months to live."

There was a silence around the table. After a pause I made some comment about how sorry we all were and went back to our agenda. -- From dealconsulting.com/personaldev

Life gives us many opportunities to learn, but fully consumed by our ambitions, pursuits, and desires, we often fail to understand those lessons. Perhaps we are even be moved for a second or two but then we go back to same ol' routine. Quite often, we will even tell ourselves, "I need to change" or "This is not what I want my life to be", but again, we succumb to our subtle habit patterns.

To change, to start afresh, to destroy old habits is hard but delaying the issue doesn't solve it. Maybe we can read this and go back to our own "agenda" or maybe we can take steps to increase our awareness, experience reality, and understand life. Inner revolution has to start from within and there is no better day than today and no better moment than right now!