Responding to Barry's post:
> When I was in college and fresh out, I wanted to change the world
> according to what I believed was best in my heart of hearts.
and
> That reality is that you can't force change on others, even when you
> are certain you are in the right, that what people do now is any of the
> following: wrong, bad, destructive, inefficient, wasteful. It takes
> education and time. Spirit of the idea is so very different from
> letter of the idea, to paraphrase the cliche.
I've just written an article on a very similar topic. You can force
change on others (fire them, change their environment...), what you can't
do is motivate them to change themselves. You have to show people their
own WIIFM (What's in it for me) before they'll do anything. Once people
recognize they can change themselves, and what benefits they get, they
will start changing their world. But there are still alot of negative
forces to get them to stop changing and investing in themselves.
We all have to listen to our heart of hearts and change the world towards
what we beleive. Sometimes others will be nay-sayers and we'll forget
that part of ourselves. That's where the positive associations and
concepts from this mail list (and for me, TPN) are so important to our
futures.
Keep on Dreaming, and your dreams will come true!
--
'Let the views of others educate and inform you, but let your
decisions be a product of your own conclusions.' J.Rohn
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