Article published on LinkedIn.com: June 7, 2023

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this summer exploreS the possibilities of changing for the better!

You could also think of helping a family member, a friend, an employee…

Of course, we all want to be successful in life. We all want to be able to live our dream life away from all the struggles and constant worrying about our day-to-day problems. But to achieve success you need to adapt, evolve, and that means mastering changes.

Enable yourself or another to become a more effective and authentic person, one who can evolve and change from within to realize a better future.

Becoming an authentic person takes hard work!

To become great at any endeavor, whether in your career, your family, or your community, you must use the unique strengths you were born with and develop them to the fullest, while acknowledging and learning from your shortcomings.

In most cases, people must work hard to shape their futures. They endure disappointing defeats and rejections and search for many years to find the right place to flourish. They are each required to make the journey to his or her own soul, to find out who they are, where their real passions lie, and how they can become more effective, so they can shape their futures.

Personally, I did not have a distinct reference text to help me when I was young, so I made up my development plan as I went along, with the help of my father and mother, employers, close friends, my wife, my son, and some important mentors along the way.

After searching for role models for many years, I learned that I could never become a great person by emulating someone else or by minimizing my shortcomings.

If you are aiming to be like somebody else, you will be merely a copycat because you will think that is what people want you to do. You will never be a real person with that kind of thinking. However, you might be a real person, unpredictable by following your passions.

What should you do to make it happen?

Many self-help books offer a quick fix or provide the reader with seven or more easy steps to follow. Unfortunately, a person's development does not usually work that way, and one rarely becomes a great person simply by reading a book for a few hours.

You need to go farther than scratching the surface. You need far more, such as reflecting on the following:

1. What is an authentic person?
2. Can I use short cuts in life?
3. How can I get rid of my guilt?
4. What about walking around in a circle?
5. Am I at the right place at the right time?
6. How can I ask for help?
7. Should I drop the ego?
8. Can I keep an open mind?
9. Can I cultivate the ability to think for myself?
10. How can I stop making excuses?
11. Can I think positively?
12. Can I balance my life?
13. How can I become a more effective learner?
14. What is a life-development program?
15. Is reading important?
16. How can I find the right mentor?
17. How do individuals and organizations respond to change?
18. What are the reasons for resisting change?
19. How can I be patient?
20. Do I want to become a great leader?
21. Can I become a strategic thinker?
22. How can I become a great Parent?
23. How can I become a great communicator?
24. Do I need to surround myself with people better than myself?
25. Is success, an accident?
26. Should I be sensitive to other people's feelings?
27. How can I have the courage to say what I think?
28. Do men and women communicate differently?
29. How can I improve my networking skills?
30. What is the difference between being knowledgeable and being wise?
31. How do I strengthen my character?
32. How can I set goals for life?
33. How can I switch careers?
34. How can I erase a negative influence?
35. How can I be a leader?
36. How can I deal with the fear of change?
37. Can I change people's lives for the better?
38. Can I control my emotions when I negotiate?
39. How can I handle people who are angry with me?
40. How to argue in a positive way?
41. How can I lose an argument gracefully?
42. How can I preserve my culture?
43. How can I identify manipulative behavior?
44. How can I respond to a bully?
45. How can I handle stress?
46. Do I need to learn things that are basic common sense?
47. How can I think before speaking?
48. How can we get rid of the prejudices that we have held on for thousands of years?
49. How can I express my autonomy more?
50. How can I keep things simple?
51. What are the principles of personal and professional ethics?
52. How can we communicate with simplicity and humility?
53. How can I be funny?
54. How can I socialize, be funny, and make friends?
55. How can I develop the Sherlock Holmes intuition?
56. Can I get the collaboration of others?
57. Can innovation play a part in my life?
58. Can I understand the generation gap?
And many more….

To realize your potential in life, you need a detailed development program that will enable you to shape your future. That is the purpose of Change Your Future, Now! - to help you to develop a clear and detailed program for your personal growth and happiness in life. I encourage you to have as many experiences early in life as you can.

Do not sit back and wait for these experiences to come to you. Seek them out! Then after each experience, you should process it by going back to your development plan to see what changes you need to make and/or to determine the future experiences you should have.

Remember the following fundamentals; they will help you to change your future: You will need to discover your authentic self as soon as possible; you will need to remember that you do not have to be born with certain characteristics to be able to shape your future; you will not need to wait for a tap on your shoulder to start; you will not need to wait to be at the top of an organization to start; and the most important, you will need to remember that you are never too young or too old to change your future.

I encourage you to be completely open and transparent as you look inside yourself and answer the very challenging and difficult questions posed about what you think you should be in the future.

You need to explore your life’s story at a deep level to understand who you are as a human being, where you fit in in this world, how you can impact the world in a positive way, and how you can leave a legacy.

I hope that you and many others can transform business organizations and institutions, the nonprofit world, governments, education, and religion, as you bring authenticity to the world and encourage others to do the same. Your enthusiasm to become authentic will indeed make this world a better and richer place for all of us to live in.

At this point, it is important to keep in mind that changing your life for a better future is your sole decision!

Make a meaningful impact during the summer!

Of course, we all want to be successful in life. We all want to be able to live our dream life away from all the struggles and constant worrying about our day-to-day problems by embracing CHANGE!

Make a meaningful impact on an employee, a friend and a family member during the summer season by offering them a gift that multiplies in value.

Help people like you discover their potential, so they can help themselves grow in life and help those around them.

Let the reader take the ideas from « CHANGE Your Future, Now! » and apply them to their personal development.

This will enable them to become a more effective, efficient, and authentic person, a person who can grow and change from within to achieve a better future.

The gift that multiplies in value.

This 642-page book is the result of a four-year project called Project Tomorrow. During the four-year period, we followed more than 500 trainees, aged from 16 to 72. It is also the fruit of forty years of experience acquired with local and international organizations and companies and during consultancy, change management, transition, and marketing services. For more information go to: www.webtechpublishing.com .

About the Author In addition to writing, Germain Decelles acts as Change Management Strategist. He has over 40 years of business and consultation experience with local and international markets, including sectors such as retail trade, distribution, information technology and communications, transportation, manufacturing, financial services, and government organizations. Other publications: ISO Pour Tous – Le manuel d’information ISO – Le guide de préparation ISO – La gestion du changement en affaires – La gestion de projet d’affaires – Le changement POUR TOUS – Change Your Future, Now! – Mon succès est votre succès – My Success Is Your Success. Press Contact Germain Decelles, o.s.j. WebTech Management et Publication Incorpored

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