| THE PROCESS OF CHANGE |
My consulting experience was classified as Change Management, which is an industry that takes
great advantage of companies that have become incapable of managing themselves. Perhaps they
had a wonder product that everyone needed, and to meet those supply demands they hired way too
many people; and, having never learned the basics of managing a business, when that supply demand
dwindled, they felt the hard, cruel pressures of loss and the threat of extinction coming. It was
typically desperation that led a CEO, President, Owner or some significant person high in the food
chain of that company to consider the high cost of advice, at a time when high costs were already
exceeding the revenue gained. Someone in authority knew that something must change, and fast.
Change Management Consulting is a lucrative business, with a high turnover rate. That turnover rate
has several contributing factors; but, for most that leave the reason is burnout, caused not by the
constant travel to unknown locations, dealing with the new securities procedures of airports or a
client that can only afford a medium comfort hotel, the burnout comes from the high degree of energy
that is required to push through a project to a successful conclusion. This energy is necessary to
push through the natural resistance that everyone has against the evil and hated "efficiency expert,"
who will come into an environment that he or she knew nothing about before, and then start telling
everyone how to do their jobs. This hate is never rooted in a true dislike for the consultant, because
most people are friendly and like to get along, even with strangers. By the time a successful project
has had a positive impact on a struggling company, most good consultants are loved by the workers
and managers, and they hate to see them go. The hate that all consultants must face going in is
rooted in a fear of change. People just naturally resist anything that forces them out from under the
warm cozy blankets they have become accustomed to, and into the brisk cold morning air of waking
to reality. They will go to great lengths resisting change, all because of fearing the unknown.
This fear can become overriding, so much that the turmoil that change creates seems too great to
deal with. Returning to the comfort of the past, to "business as usual", can seem to be the best
choice; but, it was that situation that brought about the realization that change MUST occur. Fear
blinds so many of the future, that taking the ostrich position seems to be the best defense - stick your
head in the sand and it will all go away. The sad reality is that many companies close projects, rather
than witness the devastation of change; preferring to simply die a slow agonizing death that is known
to come. It does not require a prophet to predict a demise, if bad habits are not broken. Doctors
warn people every day that death or disability will result, if a patient does not change a lifestyle. It is
much easier to live in denial; but then, when death is on the doorstep and fear becomes a motivator
to change, its too late. What is the old saying? You can pay me now or pay me later; but, one way
or another you're going to have to pay.
The hardest changes to make are not related to business, per se. They are related to addiction. Our
society today is designed to attract people to something, in hopes that once something is tried it will
become a regular habit. It is all in the advertising and promotion of that something. Some things are
seen as acceptable, like the advertising that we are bombarded with everyday. We think we have
the power to resist; but, this power of influence is very strong, especially when someone becomes
weak and in need of something. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, and even smoking - all things known
as vice - are easily identifiable as highly addictive and extremely difficult vices to break. However,
addictions don't stop there. People can become addicted to philosophies too, so strongly that cults
have taken advantage of weak minds and influenced people to believe what they want them to
believe. We've all heard the news of parents having a child "kidnapped," to force them into a
de-brainwashing program, against their will, to eventually bring them back to reality and realize how
they had been fooled and used. The changes that we face are like this. We must realize that we
have been significantly influenced to believe in ways that are dangerous to our wellbeing.
The focus of The Prophecies is European. Nostradamus lived in southern France and traveled
about Europe during his lifetime, so this would be a natural focus. However, his focus on Europe is
because Europe represented the strength of Christianity, especially with Rome being the central ruling
body for European catholicism and France being strongly Catholic. Still, Nostradamus was shown a
new country that would rise up to lead the Christian nations of the world, as the offspring of Christian
Europe. That nation is the United States of America.
The stories that the quatrains tell, leading up to the point of needing to change to save the world, is
about the changes that Jesus Christ showed Nostradamus would occur, affecting the 16th Century
power structure. Nostradamus wrote in his Letter of Preface that these changes would find the
Kings, Church and Sect "diametrically opposite" from the way they were in 1555. This is precisely
what has happened over time, because from those days when kings ruled nations, the Church
co-ruled the people, through influence of the kings. The Sects are then the people, neither of royalty
or piety, who possessed skills that aided the kings and the Church in their influence over the masses.
Nostradamus was a member of the Sects, as a pensioned physician and astrologer. Others would
be the Renaissance artists, masons, musicians and even the military officers. Basically, the Sects
were those of a philosophy that influenced the people. Now, we find the complete opposite exists.
There are no longer nations ruled by kings of importance. The Church has been separated from
influencing those new national states; and, the Sects that once owed their power of influence to those
once powerful institutions, have seized all power. With the people so unwilling to accept change in
their lives, it was the Sects of philosophy that influenced revolutionary change, so that when the
blood had stopped flowing and the masses sought to find stability, a select few now rule over the
people, with no one to keep them from doing as they wish and no moral standards flying beside
them. We are now in this diametrically opposite time.
In the stories of this change, Jesus Christ specifically told Nostradamus about the changes that would
lead to a world run by "inhuman tyrants." From a time when everyone was Catholic, even if by
forces like the Inquisition, the common people's souls were not judged by God as responsible for
their actions. However, once the common people were freed to act as they wish and allow leaders
to assume power, from the common ranks, that role of responsibility also changed. Each and every
one of us is now fully responsible for our individual souls. The former responsible powers, the kings
and the Church, have all been corrupted and can no longer serve that purpose for us. The Sects,
which initially heralded Christianity as its motivation, especially in the United States (In God We
Trust), can no longer be trusted to have a sincere moral courage to lead their actions (the removal of
the Ten Commandments from buildings of law). Each one of these groups has corrupted themselves
in the eyes of God, and Jesus Christ exposed one significant assassination/murder for each, which
demonstrates their lack of moral fiber, keeping them from being allowed to lead mankind's hearts.
With this leadership ruined and with each and everyone of us now fully responsible for one soul, the
call of The Prophecies is for each individual to take control of his or her life, from awareness of this
predicament.
The world must be changed to save it from total ruin. As large as that task appears and as
uncomfortable as change is, you cannot shy away from doing your part. You only have the ability to
affect one person for good and that person is you. In consulting, and in the programs with steps to
recovery from addictions, the first step to eliminating a problem is identifying it and admitting that it
does exist. The purpose of The Prophecies is to open your eyes to what is all about us. Each one of
us has to realize we must return to a moral standard, which honors others, ourselves, God and
Christ. We must find the calm through acceptance of Jesus Christ into our hearts, knowing that as
long as we strongly hold onto faith, our souls will be safe from harm. In time, when enough people
realize this need, it will be the inhuman tyrants that will fear the change coming.
great advantage of companies that have become incapable of managing themselves. Perhaps they
had a wonder product that everyone needed, and to meet those supply demands they hired way too
many people; and, having never learned the basics of managing a business, when that supply demand
dwindled, they felt the hard, cruel pressures of loss and the threat of extinction coming. It was
typically desperation that led a CEO, President, Owner or some significant person high in the food
chain of that company to consider the high cost of advice, at a time when high costs were already
exceeding the revenue gained. Someone in authority knew that something must change, and fast.
Change Management Consulting is a lucrative business, with a high turnover rate. That turnover rate
has several contributing factors; but, for most that leave the reason is burnout, caused not by the
constant travel to unknown locations, dealing with the new securities procedures of airports or a
client that can only afford a medium comfort hotel, the burnout comes from the high degree of energy
that is required to push through a project to a successful conclusion. This energy is necessary to
push through the natural resistance that everyone has against the evil and hated "efficiency expert,"
who will come into an environment that he or she knew nothing about before, and then start telling
everyone how to do their jobs. This hate is never rooted in a true dislike for the consultant, because
most people are friendly and like to get along, even with strangers. By the time a successful project
has had a positive impact on a struggling company, most good consultants are loved by the workers
and managers, and they hate to see them go. The hate that all consultants must face going in is
rooted in a fear of change. People just naturally resist anything that forces them out from under the
warm cozy blankets they have become accustomed to, and into the brisk cold morning air of waking
to reality. They will go to great lengths resisting change, all because of fearing the unknown.
This fear can become overriding, so much that the turmoil that change creates seems too great to
deal with. Returning to the comfort of the past, to "business as usual", can seem to be the best
choice; but, it was that situation that brought about the realization that change MUST occur. Fear
blinds so many of the future, that taking the ostrich position seems to be the best defense - stick your
head in the sand and it will all go away. The sad reality is that many companies close projects, rather
than witness the devastation of change; preferring to simply die a slow agonizing death that is known
to come. It does not require a prophet to predict a demise, if bad habits are not broken. Doctors
warn people every day that death or disability will result, if a patient does not change a lifestyle. It is
much easier to live in denial; but then, when death is on the doorstep and fear becomes a motivator
to change, its too late. What is the old saying? You can pay me now or pay me later; but, one way
or another you're going to have to pay.
The hardest changes to make are not related to business, per se. They are related to addiction. Our
society today is designed to attract people to something, in hopes that once something is tried it will
become a regular habit. It is all in the advertising and promotion of that something. Some things are
seen as acceptable, like the advertising that we are bombarded with everyday. We think we have
the power to resist; but, this power of influence is very strong, especially when someone becomes
weak and in need of something. Drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex, and even smoking - all things known
as vice - are easily identifiable as highly addictive and extremely difficult vices to break. However,
addictions don't stop there. People can become addicted to philosophies too, so strongly that cults
have taken advantage of weak minds and influenced people to believe what they want them to
believe. We've all heard the news of parents having a child "kidnapped," to force them into a
de-brainwashing program, against their will, to eventually bring them back to reality and realize how
they had been fooled and used. The changes that we face are like this. We must realize that we
have been significantly influenced to believe in ways that are dangerous to our wellbeing.
The focus of The Prophecies is European. Nostradamus lived in southern France and traveled
about Europe during his lifetime, so this would be a natural focus. However, his focus on Europe is
because Europe represented the strength of Christianity, especially with Rome being the central ruling
body for European catholicism and France being strongly Catholic. Still, Nostradamus was shown a
new country that would rise up to lead the Christian nations of the world, as the offspring of Christian
Europe. That nation is the United States of America.
The stories that the quatrains tell, leading up to the point of needing to change to save the world, is
about the changes that Jesus Christ showed Nostradamus would occur, affecting the 16th Century
power structure. Nostradamus wrote in his Letter of Preface that these changes would find the
Kings, Church and Sect "diametrically opposite" from the way they were in 1555. This is precisely
what has happened over time, because from those days when kings ruled nations, the Church
co-ruled the people, through influence of the kings. The Sects are then the people, neither of royalty
or piety, who possessed skills that aided the kings and the Church in their influence over the masses.
Nostradamus was a member of the Sects, as a pensioned physician and astrologer. Others would
be the Renaissance artists, masons, musicians and even the military officers. Basically, the Sects
were those of a philosophy that influenced the people. Now, we find the complete opposite exists.
There are no longer nations ruled by kings of importance. The Church has been separated from
influencing those new national states; and, the Sects that once owed their power of influence to those
once powerful institutions, have seized all power. With the people so unwilling to accept change in
their lives, it was the Sects of philosophy that influenced revolutionary change, so that when the
blood had stopped flowing and the masses sought to find stability, a select few now rule over the
people, with no one to keep them from doing as they wish and no moral standards flying beside
them. We are now in this diametrically opposite time.
In the stories of this change, Jesus Christ specifically told Nostradamus about the changes that would
lead to a world run by "inhuman tyrants." From a time when everyone was Catholic, even if by
forces like the Inquisition, the common people's souls were not judged by God as responsible for
their actions. However, once the common people were freed to act as they wish and allow leaders
to assume power, from the common ranks, that role of responsibility also changed. Each and every
one of us is now fully responsible for our individual souls. The former responsible powers, the kings
and the Church, have all been corrupted and can no longer serve that purpose for us. The Sects,
which initially heralded Christianity as its motivation, especially in the United States (In God We
Trust), can no longer be trusted to have a sincere moral courage to lead their actions (the removal of
the Ten Commandments from buildings of law). Each one of these groups has corrupted themselves
in the eyes of God, and Jesus Christ exposed one significant assassination/murder for each, which
demonstrates their lack of moral fiber, keeping them from being allowed to lead mankind's hearts.
With this leadership ruined and with each and everyone of us now fully responsible for one soul, the
call of The Prophecies is for each individual to take control of his or her life, from awareness of this
predicament.
The world must be changed to save it from total ruin. As large as that task appears and as
uncomfortable as change is, you cannot shy away from doing your part. You only have the ability to
affect one person for good and that person is you. In consulting, and in the programs with steps to
recovery from addictions, the first step to eliminating a problem is identifying it and admitting that it
does exist. The purpose of The Prophecies is to open your eyes to what is all about us. Each one of
us has to realize we must return to a moral standard, which honors others, ourselves, God and
Christ. We must find the calm through acceptance of Jesus Christ into our hearts, knowing that as
long as we strongly hold onto faith, our souls will be safe from harm. In time, when enough people
realize this need, it will be the inhuman tyrants that will fear the change coming.
