Adapting is a tool that will help you overcome and even benefit from changing circumstances, it will help make them fall in love with you, it will help make them attracted to you, it will help make them respect and admire you, it will help you to build a strong foundation and better secure your future, it will give you and edge over others who are not adaptable, it will help give you more power and love and ultimately, it will help you to feel excellent.Being too ridged or structured is dangerous; it will cause you to break or be rendered useless as circumstances change. Being adaptable will allow you to overcome or even benefit from changes in your environment as well as changes inside of your own mind. It will make it so that change will not throw you off of your path; it will only require that you take a slight detour.
You have to be able to be whatever you need to be and do whatever you need to do in order to accomplish whatever you need to accomplish. You have to be adaptable in everything you do. You have to be adaptable in spirit, action, thought, being and appearance. At any given time you need to be able to drop everything you know and have, and pick up new tools. Be mobile and do not become too attached to anything. Ask yourself: “How can I be more adaptable?” When circumstances change ask yourself: “How can I best adapt to this change?” If you are not very adaptable currently, have faith that you will be adaptable. Affirm to yourself: “I am adaptable.” Imagine yourself experiencing a change, and you eagerly, easily and effectively, adapting to it. Be adaptable enough so that you can also be structured and rigid when you need to be, but be careful of having too much structure or rigidity for too long of a time. If you are not able to bend, then you will break. In general, be fluid and formless like mercury, and as Lao Tzu in the Tao te Ching says: “Yield and overcome.”
I have used this power effectively by being mobile and not being too attached to any one of my identities. For example, I used to be a biology major at Oregon State University, but I slowly began to become depressed from the biology, chemistry and physics courses I was taking, and I was not doing very well in most of them. I was on the edge of dropping out of college completely. Meanwhile, in my free time I was reading self-help, business, philosophy and psychology books that were making me feel excellent about my future. I realized that I could no longer continue college as a biology major, but instead of dropping out of college, I adapted and switched to a business major.
The change wasn’t very painful for me because most of the courses I had taken already, (the ones not specific to a biology major) I had mostly enjoyed and done well in, and they were courses I could apply business major also. I had decided to drop my old beliefs and identities and follow my true bliss and what I discovered to be my true purpose as far as my education was concerned. This decision to adapt has improved my life immensely, and made me feel much better in the short term, and since I am so much better and passionate about business than biology, I expect to feel much more excellent in the long term also.
Now go out there and adapt to this rapidly changing environment and flourish!
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