Managing your career these days mean managing perpetual motion. You are constantly reshaping yourself, changing, shifting, adjusting and flexing to fit a rapidly changing environment. You are encountering flexible ways of working and duties are constantly being realigned. Assignments may be short-lived. Perhaps you will work on a contractual basis or spend time on several projects and teams. You will have new co-workers, new bosses and even new careers.

Resistance to change is almost always a dead-end street. New career opportunities come not when you psychologically "upplug" but when you accept change and adapt. Learn to be light on your feet. Show a high capacity to adjust and adapt. Become a quick-change artist recognizing that mobility, not mourning, will make you a valuable asset. Shoot for rapid recovery and instant alignment. Take personal responsibilty for adapting to change. Careers are not and will not be as cut-and-dried as they use to be. Recognize that this is not always by choice. The world is forcing our hand. Don't pull back waiting for someone else to happen along to point you in the right direction. Take personal responsibility for your career and adopt the four steps to achievement:

-Plan Purposefully, Prepare Prayerfully,
-Proceed Positively, Pursue Persistently

--A Compilation

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

-- Author Unknown

It is within your power to dream, to build air castles, to think great thoughts, to aim at the stars, and grasp at the moon.

--Dr. Benjamin Mays

Nobody is wise enough, nobody is good enough, and nobody cares enought about you for you to turn over to them your future or your destiny.

--Dr. Benjamin Mays

Whatever you do, strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead or no man yet to be born could do it any better.

--Dr. Benjamin Mays