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The Inconvenience of Change

The End [of the Beginning]

As one door closes, another opens For just over a month here at Life Without Pants I have taken a step back and have let you, the readers, share your personal voice on change. Some people may have thought this was crazy – some may say it was detrimental to my personal brand, and others [...]

June 5, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE

The Inconvenience of Change: Business Edition [Ryan Stephens]

What if railroad companies thought of themselves as transportation companies instead of just people who built tracks? What if the music industry embraced file sharing? What if the newspaper industry embraced new media from the onset? Is Exxon Mobil an oil company or an energy company? Change is inconvenient. Not only in our own lives, [...]

June 4, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE

Establishing Lasting Change [Irina Issakova]

Everyone can change. Yes, even you! My cousin Nadia lives in Russia. I love her to death and consider her one of my two best friends in the world. But within spending two hours with her, I want to bite her head off. She has an extremely complicated personality and to all attempts at suggesting [...]

June 3, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE

The Inconvenience of Change: The Sour Grapes of Lost Control [Chelsie Guillemet]

Without change, where would we be? As I read over your fantastic perspectives on change, I have to ask why we need so much help dealing with it. I mean, literally speaking, change is the continuation of life. No matter your perspective, you can’t ignore how change started the world’s engines-without it, you wouldn’t have [...]

June 2, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE

Change: Stop Resisting and Start Soaring! [Susan Pogorzelski]

Change scares me. Most people I know are afraid of snakes or spiders or heights. But for me, these things are simple nuisances, minor annoyances that I can deal with. Loss. Failure. Uncertainty. These are all abstract things I can’t reason, sometimes can’t understand, and most certainly can never control. These are the things that [...]

June 1, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE

Inconvenience of Change: The Problem with Tomorrow

Most change agents out there are dreamers at heart. We dream the kinds of dreams that you can only dream when awake, and most of these dreams have one central theme: tomorrow can be better than today. It was Robert Kennedy who first put into words what most of us dreamers think about each day [...]

May 29, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE

Social Justice is Inconvenient [Mandy Siu]

It took me a while to get started on this article, but I finally gave up on trying to come up with a great post on personal change and went with what I know best: social justice. I’m an activist by profession and passion so it’s hard for me not to talk about politics whenever [...]

May 27, 2009 CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE