The Gift of Shift

Whenever I finish a book I feel bereft, like I’m leaving an old friend.  Gary Keller’s book SHIFT made be feel that way because I had learned so much.  I think the last chapter was the most insightful because it talked about shifting in personal terms as well as market terms.   He talks about successful people in general who continuously and relentlessly are shifting in response to the market but also in response to their own goals.

Keller talks about embracing tough times and tackling them.  His book lays out twelve tactics in order to do just that and this series of articles have explored several of his suggestions.  He cautions you to keep things simple and not try to accomplish everything at once.  We “move at the speed of need” and when goals are clear we figure out what speed we need.  Your life and career will profit when you take your priorities to your calendar and block out time for them.

Life is a series of choices that produce results and those results define us as individuals.  The person that fails and gives up has indeed failed but the person that fails and learns the lesson of “what happened” ultimately succeeds.  It takes resilience, flexibility, adaptability to succeed and this is a perfect market to hone those skills.  You can either look at this market as an insurmountable problem or a huge opportunity; it is all a matter of your choice.  Keller sums it up when he says, “How you think determines what you do and what you do determines the results you get.”

DF

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