We live in a fast-paced life. Keeping up with the pace of changes and the way we understand life as it was, is difficult.
It is said, the only thing that will not change is change itself. We need to accept the reality of change in our lives. We need to constantly reach out beyond our comfort zone to acquire new skills and knowledge to keep in pace with the changes if hope to improve our quality of life.
Change and the ups and downs of the ever unpredictable economic cycles create a lot of loss and stress to us. The advent of globalization and liberalization of trades, while improving the lives of the populace of the emerging economies, are happening, unfortunately at the expense of the people of the developed economies. The relocation of businesses away from certain geographical locations and the recent practice of outsourcing have caused much pain in the developed economies.
While this is seen as sometimes unnecessarily disruptive, such realities cannot be ignored nor can they be prevented.
Therefore, we must be prepared and ready to keep up with the pace of these changes by acquiring the required knowledge and taking pre-emptive actions before it is too late. We may update our knowledge and skills and/or acquire new ones to ensure we are in employment or at least marketable.