CHAPTER NINE
Develop a Whatever-It-Takes Attitude
STEP 9
See changes as an opportunity.
This step helps you embrace change. It is the key process for handling change as well as the strategies to accept it, leaving you with an attitude of willingness to take action.
After I made the difficult decision to leave IBM to become a professional speaker, I had one final hurdle to clear. I had to tell my father. As I noted earlier, Dad spent his entire thirty-six-year teaching career at the same community college. He believed in job security, loyalty, and sticking with a job through thick and thin. He is not a guy who readily embraces or regularly seeks change in his life.
He knew I had mortgage and car payments that were considerable even for a ...
