I like change. For clarity, I like change that I know about in advance and can plan for. Oh, and I like it best when there is a change in only one area of my life at a time. Of course, those ideal conditions rarely present themselves so the majority of the time I manage change with strategies and coping mechanisms learned over time.

I was recently facing a change in my personal life and in the days before getting more information on the change I read a quote from Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. He said, “I very frequently get the question: What’s going to change in the next 10 years? And that is a very interesting question: it’s a very common one. I almost never get the question: What’s not going to change in the next 10 years? And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two – because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.” reinvent 2012

What is not going to change? How grounding to be able to identify what you still know, what you can still count on, what you do not need to worry about? How empowering to be able to move forward and plan with certainty about what will remain unchanged. The act of naming what will not change and the power it gives can be utilized at work, at home, at school – another strategy to help effectively manage and cope with a world that is always changing.