Start Right Now

I've spent this past week in Guerilla Business School – there’s a lot to write about – but I’m writing this before I go.

I think you’ve noticed how much faster life is – Well, that’s simple math. If you draw an exponential growth curve, you’ll see that it takes a long time to rise – it seems gentle. But when it rises, it is extremely steep – And it’s rising. In fact, we are in an exponential rise in our civilization – knowledge, crises, inventions, books, gadgets, toys, population, … almost anything we can measure – it’s not hard to keep up – it’s impossible. So prepare to be surprised – always… It will change. The impossible happens every day.

What can we do in the face of massive, continuous change? That’s this title. Don’t wait. As I’ve written before – adopt a policy based on confidence and support – you have or can develop confidence and you can certainly amass support. So-- – Ready, Fire, Aim. With confidence and support you can correct as conditions change. And they will change. Complacency leads to obsolescence.

But start what? I’m inclined to say, ‘whatever.’ A new business; a new project; acting on a dream that may vanish; saying ‘I love you’ before it’s too late; finishing something; communicating with someone; being generous; do something brand new – for the first time. We have to live longer because there’s so much - and so much more to do.

Here’s something new and worthwhile – important – and it’s four nights away:
Thursday evening, March 15th, from 7:30 – 8:30 is START night – living a sustainable life in a sustainable world.
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Michael Lipp, MS, coach and author provides innovative and profitable strategies to entrepreneurs, seniors, and people committed to sustainability and/or creativity. My website is being redesigned – Write me at michaellipp@1stclasscoaching.com

Useful Quotes
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
Alan Cohen

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
Alvin Toffler

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles Kettering

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
G.K.Chesterton

The Creative Corner

Entropy and Growth

“Who is doing these awful things,” she shrieked, “to me?”
“It is I,” the Exponential Growth Rate,” the giant roared.
“Mercy!” she cried,
“Can no one save me fwom this fwightening fate?”
“No!” bellowed the giant, “No one!”
And he ate her.

“Why, that’s not so fwightening,” she murmured.

One of the most famous laws of physics is
the 2nd law of thermodynamics –
the law of entropy.
Entropy tells us that things change
all by themselves,
that things go from a state of order
to a state of disorder,
that the universe is running down.

We spend much of our lives in the futile effort to resist
or even reverse
entropy.
Too bad. Cobwebs do gather in corners.

What we don’t realize is that
the very effort to reverse entropy is entropy.
Technological growth demonstrates entropy.
The more things there are;
the more particulated the universe is,
the more disorder exists.
Complete heterogeneity is the same as complete chaos.
Every time we discover a new “fact”
the universe becomes more complicated and even further
fragmented,
further disordered.

And we are discovering new facts
at an alarming rate -and the rate is increasing -
and the rate of increase is increasing –

So many trees; so few forests.

When everything is on-line
and available at our fingertips, then everything
is well-hidden and nothing is known.

The more we discover, the easier it is to see
that we are each unique – and none different.
So Let the Good Times Roll