If you can remember back to your high school days you may recall ‘classic’ biology experiment using a frog. It goes something like this. You put a frog in a pot of cold water and then gradually turn heat up. What happens? The frog does nothing! It just sits there without jumping out as water heats up. The frog will ultimately be boiled to death.

That is similar to what happens in many small businesses. They get hurt in market place before they wake up. It’s "she’ll be right" attitude.

In my opinion it is better to become a champion of change rather than a victim of change (a boiled frog!). I agree that change is difficult for all of us and that’s why we all have a natural tendency to resist it. Yet like it or not we are living in one of most exciting periods civilization has ever known. It is a period of astounding and radical change. An era of unprecedented rapid, accelerating change... "Golden Age Of Opportunity"... "The Greatest Entrepreneurial Boom In History."

The thing about change is that you really have no choice. Resist it and become a victim or you can decide to become a champion of change and capitalize on it.

To become a champion of change you need to break out of your comfort zone and try new things before you are forced to.

Given such conditions, natural survival instinct is to cling to what you know. It's a bit like clinging to a life raft when a ship is sinking...it's safest thing to do. But is it?

The ship of life is not sinking. It's just changing direction and you can either stay on board and ride tides of change, or cling to life raft of hope.

Like it or not, we are living in one of most exciting periods civilization has ever known - information age. This is a period of astounding and radical change. It's like being with Christopher Columbus on Santa Maria... only now with computers, jet aircraft, lasers, global positioning systems and cellular phones at our disposal.

Prepare yourself for adventures of your lifetime. Rip open that 'straight jacket' and let go that life raft. This is a wonderful opportunity to become part of history and ride these ever-changing tides of discovery and change.

And...even if you don't change world, you can change way you do things and way you react to situations. The first critical step is to have a personal commitment to re-education and decide not to become a victim of change.

Embrace Change... if you want to become rich, it is your best guarantee of success.