Whether you’re managing a forced or chosen company reorganization, downsizing, career or personal change, fear shuts the doors of your mind, limits your horizons and choices, throttles your energy and resources, and thwarts success. Master your fears to manage change effectively.
To read the rest of this article from the Denver Business Journal, see:
Master Your Fears to Manage Workplace Change Effectively
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/1997/08/25/smallb5.html
People in our culture typically respond with debilitating fear to ambiguity, uncertainty, unpredictability and the potential danger of change. Victim-thinking, paranoia, stupidity, ignorance, and narcissism become rampant. Tunnel-vision, defensiveness, survival-thinking, inactivity, and back-stabbing increase.
To develop effective attitudes you will have to protect yourself from the epidemic of fear spread by the media and most people you know.
- Some of the common “fear-viruses” and their antidotes (read the original article) are:
- “The global forces of a shrinking economy are too powerful for any individual.”
- “When a lot is on the line, you’re supposed to react with fear.”
- “Any time your feelings are hurt or you don’t get what you want, it’s a tragedy.”
- “Society owes you a living; comfort, convenience and success are your right.”
- “Any mistake can be fatal; if you stumble, get knocked down or pause on your treadmill, it’s a portent of inevitable disaster.”
Don’t let self-bullying, self-doubt and self-abuse sap your strength and determination, and make you ineffective.
Take charge of the choices that you do have. Persevere though the days seem tedious and your efforts appear to be without effect. Be the hero of your life; master the changes you face.
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