When you use this skill and become experienced at anticipating change, you feel more in control in changing situations, and become more valuable. Skill #2: Taking New Actions Now is the ability to see what you need to do differently and to do it soon. Then, look at the results and see where you need to correct your course and do something differently again. As you scurry into new actions, you become more energetic and influence others to try new things as well.

Skill #3: Moving Beyond Fear

Moving Beyond Fear is the ability to do what you would do if you weren't afraid. It doesn't mean that you may not still have the fear, but you don't let fear hold you back. When you move beyond fear, you feel more confident, creative, and effective, and are more likely to enjoy your work.

Skills #4: Imagining Real Success

Imagining Real Success is the ability to see what you would like to have happen, in such realistic detail, that this "personal movie" lets you experience how it could really happen and you enjoy making it happen. As you imagine real success, you feel happier and less stressed, even before you get an ideal outcome.

III. FUTURE FOCUS

If

If you had a map to the Maze,

If the same old routines worked

If they'd just stop moving "The Cheese"

But... things keep changing. (Back cover)

It would be all so easy....,"

or so the promotional blurb on the back cover of Who Moved My Cheese? proclaims

Oh really?... this researcher questions.

This researcher also questions. Who said change constitutes...

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