Why change when being comfortable is so much more…comfortable?
- Justin H
- Sep 13, 2016
- 2 min read
I don’t know about the rest of you, but if I do the same thing, over and over, every single day, I would go catatonic with boredom. For our factory workers, cashiers and data entry specialists, I salute you. You unsung heroes of our workforce perform a necessary function, but one very few people have the mental fortitude to accomplish. I know I don’t.
Even if we don’t have repetitive job functions like the three positions I just listed, life seems to settle into these routines doesn’t it? We go to work in the mornings, and we spend time with family or watch television in the evening. Some of us schedule the days we decide to go to the gym, many families have a ‘pizza night’ on Fridays, and reserve Saturdays as the day we cut the lawn and/or go to the grocery store. These routines can actually carry into our work as well. We walk into the office, sit down and check our email from 8-9am. At 9, we grab a coffee and chat for a few minutes before returning to our desk to begin our various to-do lists. We do the same tasks every day in the same way we have done them since we were trained. But is this the right way?
Change is vital; to life, society, and business. It’s cumbersome to consider, it’s sometimes difficult to implement, and depending on the situation it can be scary. Fear and excitement are two very natural responses to change, whether the changes you are going through are professional or personal. It doesn’t matter if you are starting a new job, getting a whole software system overhaul or moving into a new house, our body reacts the same. That doesn’t make it bad, however it can certainly be uncomfortable. The technologies available to people and their desires keep changing, which means our lives keep changing, which means businesses grow or change to accommodate these nuances into their models or they go extinct. You need to change. I need to change. Companies need to change.
And that’s a good thing.
Justin Huereña Staff Blogger
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