Learn The New, Hang Onto The Old

Are you still stuck in the past? Are you hang­ing onto things and ways from “back in the day”? Are you still using older ways or things when other peo­ple are mov­ing on?

I was lis­ten­ing to a con­ver­sa­tion my wife was hav­ing with some of our friends the other day. The topic was about how schools don’t teach cur­sive as much any­more. When we were grow­ing up we were taught to write in both print and cur­sive. And she was actu­ally offended about this. And I have to admit I am a bit too. She thought it was sad that peo­ple weren’t going to be learn­ing things that have been around for a long time.

Take the elec­tronic book. Is it going to replace actual books some­day? The Kin­dle and the new Nook are fancy and con­ve­nient ways to read books, but will it make books obso­lete? I really don’t want to see things go that way either.

But I also don’t like to be left behind either. So I’m at a bit of a cross­road here; Should I con­tinue to hang onto the past and just keep using what I have. In other words ignore the tech­nol­ogy and just stick with books. Or should I embrace the oncom­ing trend and move on?

Online mar­ket­ing is the same way. There are new ways to mar­ket and new ways to make money pop­ping up all the time. Some work some don’t. So what should we do? Just keep jump­ing to the next best and newest tac­tic? Or stick with the older ways that are still working?

It’s not always easy, but this is one of those sit­u­a­tions where you need to make your own path and kind of take a mid­dle road. There are some tac­tics that are older and still work well so I wouldn’t really give those all up. You don’t want to con­stantly change things, but you don’t want to be left behind either.

Let’s take a look at the book exam­ple. Kind of a mid­dle road here as well. I can’t give up an actual book. It’s a per­sonal expe­ri­ence that I will always enjoy. So I’m going to always have those around. But I do want a Kin­dle too. I like the idea of that kind of con­ve­nience. I’ll still embrace the new tech­nol­ogy with­out giv­ing up the old.

Life is full of choices and you have sev­eral ways you can go about it. Stay on top of the new trends and tac­tics or stick with the old ones that work. Or cre­ate your own path and com­bine the two.

Or bet­ter yet, become a true leader; make and lead your own path. Learn from your own exper­i­men­ta­tion and teach oth­ers. Inno­vate and just shat­ter the whole prob­lem altogether.

~Chris

How about you? How do you han­dle this kind of thing? What other exam­ples can you think of?

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