“Why Can’t Life Just Stay the Same?"

There is so much to learn about complacency, that it required a deeper review. (see earlier blog past “You Just Haven’t Made It Official Yet” )

Complacency is “a feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to try to make them better.” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complacency

The moment you think you already have it all “knowed up,” is the moment in which you stop growing. I talk to people often about how quickly life is changing.

Cases in Point:

#1 - In 2009, Federal Law required all national commercial TV stations to discontinue transmitting the analog way (TVs with “rabbit ear” antennas) and to begin using the digital format. Thus, analog would no longer be supported. Although they gave consumers a year to comply, the complacent were left with TVs that no longer worked.

http://www.cnet.com/news/good-bye-rabbit-ears-not-so-fast/ https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm09/bm0901/bm090111.htm

#2 - Prior to 2005, Facebook was unheard of. Currently, with 1.3 billion+ users around the world, it has revolutionized the way that people interact and voice opinions. It has the power to influence American politics as well as world events. Remaining complacent about it simply reflects one’s denial to participate in a rapidly, changing world.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

#3 – Telephones have evolved from its inception in the early 1890’s. Many of the Baby Boomer generation remember rotary and touch-tone, landline telephones. Although landline telephones still exist with primarily cordless telephone technology, they are quickly becoming extinct by the use of mobile telephones, called Smartphones. Remaining complacent to the use of these will render one unable to adequately communicate or interact with the rest of the world.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone

#4 – We often hear Conservatives and others proclaim: “Reclaim America” or “We want America back!” or “Let’s take back our country.” Guess what? The American landscape has changed. Hispanics are now the largest minority. USA is more diverse. The “Average American Voter” is no longer the white male. Emerging are more women, minorities and people of non-traditional family structures than ever before in our country’s history. Demanding the nation to remain the same as the past is reflecting a complacent perspective and will not serve the USA, as we head to the later part of 21^st century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States

The Bible says:

1 Corinthians 10:12 (NKJV): 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.

Revelation 16:15 (NIV):  15 “Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake…”

Matthew 12:30 (NKJV):  30 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.

Powerful Quotes:

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is: ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ “

“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

“You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.” – Wayne Dyer

“Be not afraid of growing slowly; Be afraid only of standing still.” - Chinese Proverb

“May your hunger for change be greater than your complacency to stay the same.”

 “I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the greatest foundation for failure.” – Og Mandingo

 “When was the last time you did something for the first time?”

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it." –Michelangelo

“I do not think much of a man that is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln

Final reflection: “You become complacent the minute you think you're not.”