What Never Changes is More Important Than What Might Change! We’ve all heard the ancient adage that change is the only constant. And so our attention and focus is pointed toward change and what might change. Statistics and polls are constantly pointing us toward occurring changes.
Investors are constantly trying to catch the next market trend, hoping for a profit as change occurs. Some identify a market move and make a profit. Many miss it and loose heavily, if not everything!
Marketing strategies constantly tempt us with products that supposedly will change our lives and make a difference in our lives. The marketer implies our lives will be immeasurably improved with their product.
Reality check! When it comes to your life, is some nifty trend or popular fad really that important to you? Will a new technology or product truly change your life or even make a difference in your life? The same consideration goes for your career, your marriage, your children, your influence, and your worship.
Remember that marketing is about influencing your preference and choice. It is about selling their product. It is about making them money. It’s about their profit. And I am not against profit. Profit is a good thing. Profit is what makes the world go round. Without profit companies would not exist. Economies would be agrarian at best and life would be more difficult than most could handle. So let’s keep profit in proper perspective!
What Will Change In Ten Years?
We look around our society and it seems like a whirlwind of change blasts us from every side.
As an individual wanting to grow and improve, one might ask the question: What’s going to change in the next ten years? How am I going to change in the next ten years? What is my life going to be like in ten years?
If the only constant is change then naturally I should expect some. And if I can just figure out the changes I might expect, then I’ll be ahead of the game. Now we know that all sorts of apps exist that can track our lives over the last ten years, and can extrapolate what probable changes are
possible in our future.
Well, on the one hand, such assessment can be difficult and somewhat depressing. Yet, it isimportant for us to look ahead and plan our future.
Yet, on the other hand, life is dynamic. It is happening minute by minute, day by day, and year by year. Life is evolving even as I write this and you read it. Life moves along even for those whose existence is stagnant. Either we are living life or life is flowing past us. We are either moving with it or it is passing us by, leaving us behind.
What Will Not Change In Ten Years?
You can build your life around what is stable, instead of what is changing or might change.
So consider what people want. What do you want? Whatever your age, I can tell you what you want today. You want low prices. You want quick delivery. You want excellent customer service. You want government leaders and services that respond appropriately to citizen needs. You want peace and security. You want all these today. You’ll still want these same things in ten years.
It may surprise you to learn that more has not changed than has changed. People get caught in the changes and forget what their lives are about. You are a human being created in the image and likeness of God. You have hopes, dreams, and desires.
Your life is about you and your family. Real human beings with intellect, feelings, opinions, and souls. You have have aspirations, dreams, bucket lists, and desires. You’ve got a real life with real stress and trouble and sorrow and challenges. And we are all going to one of two destinations when we die, there is no third choice.
I’m not being cute or silly here. This is a true statement, while change has occurred and continues to do so, people have not. On the other side of this screen sits a real person with real needs. You are still you! You have worries, fears, desires, hopes, and ambitions. You still want to be moved, inspired, validated, cared for, appreciated, and respected. And ten years won’t change that.
Here’s the lesson: In a world of constant and rapid change; in a world of crisis and turmoil, still most things haven’t changed, especially the truly important things. And normally, where things haven’t changed and won’t change, that is where your greatest opportunity to grow waits.
So, here’s the question: As a person, what will be stable? In your family what’s not going to change in the next ten years? What things will always be true? What will always be important? What things will you always want? That is where you’ll want to build your life. It’s where you’ll find the basis for important growth.
That is where you should focus your activities, your purpose, your plans, and goals.