Monthly Archives: October 2009

The First Agile Living Blog Carnival Roundup!

Thanks so much to everyone who submitted posts to the monthly Agile Living Blog Carnival this month. Here are my favorites:

Simplifying your life is essential if you are going to stay agile in this fast-paced, high-change world we live in – particularly in these turbulent financial times! To help you with handling your finances in a way that’ll enable you to stay agile, adaptable and resilient and create the life you want, Adam Baker wrote 42 Ways To Radically Simplify Your Financial Life posted at Man Vs. Debt. I love his take on simplicity in handling your finances – Adam says, “The heart of simplicity is in exploring, finding what works for you, and purging the rest.” So true!

How to Feel Secure When Everything Is Changing

We all have a natural desire to feel secure and change shakes up our lives, so we often feel insecure when we’re going through change. And then when we feel insecure, we avoid change or we try to control change by creating lots of goals and plans and rules… and then we end up being rigid and restricted and limiting our possibilities and results. I think we’ve all seen examples of individuals and organizations that haven’t been able to survive this recession and other big world changes because they’ve been too rigid and inflexible and stuck in the old rules of how things should be done. Those that are thriving right now are the individuals and organizations who are willing to challenge and change the old rules and assumptions and create new ones all the time.