Many years ago when we were in the frantic first days of building our company one of my slogans was Change is Good. Until that is someone pointed out to me that some changes are not good like droughts or getting fired. So we changed the slogan to Change is…… Implying not that it is bad or good but it is going to happen.
As we age we tend to get more resistant to change. We want to keep things the way they were. It turns out that even though I’m aware of this tendency I also resist change. Here are two examples of changes that I was forced to make that turned out to be very good.
I was forced to get a new razor. I’d had a Gillette Sensor for about 30 years and it was getting harder to find replacement blades for it. So finally reluctantly I changes over to a Gillette Mach 3. Wow! It gives a better shave, is much more comfortable to use and it looks and feels good. Design genius.
I lost my wire cutters/strippers, which is another story, so I had to buy some new ones. The new wire stripper is much better made it actually works. I don’t know why I stuck with the old ones so long.
Now I’m constantly on the alert for other things that I can upgrade. The pleasure of a simple upgrades to your life should not be underrated.
Here are a few that we have benefited from in recent years: back up cameras in cars, smart phones, electric toothbrushes, WiFi everywhere, memory sticks instead of floppy discs, iTunes, nonstick pans, detergent pods and many more.