Daily Disruption: Deal With It

We have entered an age of daily personal disruption. 

Deal with it or go the way of the dinosaurs!




Disruptions are anything that changes the course of your life or daily routine. They can be wonderfully good (a new baby, a technology that unleashes your creativity), or horribly bad (personal, family or global crises), or anywhere in between.



For Better or Worse, We Are Affected By the Disruptions Other People Cause

Within a recent two-week period...

• Two terrorists in Boston caused an entire city and outlying areas to go on lockdown for a day. People affected: estimated at 1 to 4 million.

• Hackers took over the Associated Press's Twitter account, (falsely) tweeting that the White House was attacked and President Obama was injured. Because stock market computers are set to search out and act upon major events, that one tweet momentarily wiped out $136.5 billion of the S&P 500 Index's value.

• A couple thousand benevolent hackers and techies attended TechCrunch's Disrupt NYC event which showcased the technologies that will soon completely obliterate how we work, play, create and learn.

• Movie theater owners were banding together to figure out how they could ban Google's Glass, even before product is available to consumers.



Even though we fear and try to protect ourselves from horrible disruptions like the Boston and AP events, the ones that are guaranteed to hit us every day for the rest of our lives are similar to those from TechCrunch and Google.



Every day you will encounter more and more disruptions. The new normal is no normal. There is no choice, we all need to learn how to deal with constant changes to our daily routines and to the course of our lives.



The Big So What

The people who will succeed in this era are those who figure out how to benefit from, or take advantage of, continuous disarray, disorder and disruption.



So what will you do?

• Hide your head in the sand and pretend that it will all go away?

• Or start learning how to succeed in this era?



Lots more at DisruptMovement.com