Why the long face?

As I sit here on another flight, dashing through the clouds I wonder to myself what is happening are we double dipping or bounding back, are we out of natural resources, is the UK coalition going to survive and who is going to be evicted from big brother?

Has the fickle nature of the news media at our finger tips become a monster of negativity and fear ? I watched a programme the other night (the fairy job mother) in which a young man a boxer and a hard man who was afraid, he was afraid of debt, afraid of an interview, afraid of changing the status quo, But not afraid of being hit in the head repeatedly !

Which does lead me to a point in our jobs from the top to the bottom we are architects of change. We must face the fear on a daily basis, no we must embrace it because if don't we will falter when we encounter the resistance to change that we will see as we execute against the change that we begin.

But we must be mindful of the fact that fear of change is something that affects most people, everyone (I do hate all generalisations!) in their life will have faced and resisted a change for the good. So remember that change is a journey and sometimes you will need to take them with you, because the end of the journey is seen as to far off. I remember reading an article about a guy who ran 1000 miles (I forget his name) when he was asked how he could even conceive of such a distance he replied '1 mile at a time'.