“ChangeOlogy” is a term I use to describe the study of change. Human beings fear change. It shakes the status quo, interrupts our habitual behavior and involves risk.
ChangeOlogy
From global movements birthed by the likes of Gandhi or Hitler, to the metamorphosis of life from cocoon to fluttering butterflies, to the use of the world wide web: change happens to life the like melting of your ice cream cone in the summer sun.
You may not want change, you may feel a desperate need to hang on to what you have right now – but change will happen – and the sooner we adjust our thinking to allow for the insidious activity of momentum (that would be change!) the easier our experience of the inevitable melting will be.
Change Creates Opportunity
Imagine a life if you will without change. Nothing ever moves. Nothing grows.
No evil passes, no disappointments fade. There are no births, no deaths, no forgiveness to be shared.
Life is the same. Meaning remains static. The status quo IS all there is.
Hope fades.
ChangeOlogy – Studying Change
I admit it – I have always had a fascination for change and how people, systems, and nature are all affected by it’s surging force.
Science has taught us that nothing, from the molecule to the expanding universe remains constant. It has fascinated me since childhood to watch the resistance humans construct against change and their incessant curiosity that fuels the force nonetheless.
ChangeOlogy then is a term I have given my unrelenting appetite for this subject – the study of change. For over 25 years I have focused on work that changes people, places and things. In the early days, like most of the “boomers,” I was frustrated by those who offered feeble excuses for “not rocking the boat.” Over time I learned however, that fear and the consequential need we have to feel in control is the culprit behind the boring, snoring attitude of resistance – and I became enchanted with overcoming the fear myself and helping others do the same.
