Are you the change agent in your life?

Are you the change agent in your life? - Rolê em Vila Velha - Praia de Itapoã (Photo credit: Lia Scarton Carreira)

You are living in turbulent times just like all of us are. The amount of change you are experience in your work as well as your personal life is much greater than what your ancestors might have experienced. 

Hence change management is not just for organizations; it is also for you and your family too. Change management is one of the most important skills you need to do day in day out. 

It is very vital that you add the role of a change agent to all other roles you are playing. The role of a change agent is a very important role, and a role that you will have to play throughout your life.
 

The definition of a change agent: Change agent is a person who will facilitate the change within an organization or a team. 

Applying this definition to your life you need to find out who is in charge of change management in your life?

Who is the change agent in your life? Have you ever thought about this very important subject? Many people have consciously or unconsciously abdicated this role to others.

Here are a few questions you need to ask yourself to ensure effective change management in your life:

• Are you aware of the concept of change management?
• Who is the change agent in your life?
• Who are the people who are calling the shots in your life?
• How many times have you played the role of a change agent in your life?

Playing the role of a change agent means that you are taking charge of your life and being responsible for all aspects of your life. It is one of the most important roles you will ever play.

Here is an exercise for you to do after you read this post. 

Take an inventory of all the events that have brought about major changes in your life and make a detailed list of them. Ask yourself how many of these change events you actively participated as a change agent? You may be surprised at the results!

Take charge and be the change agent in your life! 

 

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Are you aware of the impact of the environment on you?

Sports counter

Environment has tremendous influence on how you think, feel, and act. While its influence is always present, the fact about it that is frightening is that it is invisible and its most of the time negative.

Look around you. Your environment is defined for you largely by what you see around you and hear about.


Here are some common sources:


• TV
• Newspaper
• Movies
• Magazines
• Internet
• Radio
• Hoarding
• People


Let me suggest an exercise for you. All you need is a sports counter and a determination to track everything negative in your environment.

Click the sports counter each time you see or hear anything that you feel is detrimental.

Try this for one full day. You may end up horrified at the results when you examine your counts at the end of the day.

Do write about your findings in your comments about this post.

In my next post, I will be writing about how to tackle this problem.