Now we're moving into "adaptability age." No matter how much you know and how much action you take, you're dead in water if you can't be flexible and change with times.

What we've seen in past 60 years of business is that our world continues to change faster and faster each year. Entire industries are replaced by new technologies. The people who don't pay attention to this are left laying by side of road wondering what they'll ever do for work again. Lets face it, job security doesn't exist anymore.

Take farming for example. Family farms are an extinct breed now and corporations with smart machines have taken over. If you've been farming for 30 years and you can't afford to farm anymore because of how factory farms have taken over industry, what are you going to do? Farming is a valuable skill, but it only works for farming.

If an unemployed farmer is adaptable he can look at world today and look for an opportunity. He can find a problem that needs to be solved, provide a solution for it, figure out if numbers are profitable and if they are he'll create a successful business.

Beyond this, I believe in multiple streams of income. Just like you know you shouldn't have all your money invested in one stock, I think it's nuts to try to live on one income source in these times.

Why do most folks have one job they don't like and that doesn't pay well and think their lives will ever get better? Create a business you love instead so you'll be turned on which will make you happy no matter how much money make or don't make.

Why not make front end, back end and residual income from many sources like internet marketing, network marketing, internet auctions, creating new products, real estate, stocks & bonds, govt tax liens, options, trusts, discounted mortgages and even keep your regular job (if you love it). Put extra cash into different solid investments. Just a thought to consider.

Start with using these 3 Keys in your current business with an eye to future.

6. Your dimples how merry

Yes, smile. Mix and mingle. Show off those “soft” skills that are directly related to your ability to network which is so very valuable to your employer. Get it?

7. Give a luster to objects below

Remember those whom you may be tempted to elbow past on your way to meet Big Guys at punch bowl will be there to sabotage your project Monday morning, I mean ^help you^. (As Dave Berry said, "If you're not nice to waiter, you're not a nice person.")

8. Now Dasher! Now Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen!

Know names. Know how to introduce people to one another. Is it, “Mr. CEO, I’d like you to meet my wife, Clothtilde,” or is it “Clothtilde, this is my boss … owner of company …” You want to know all this before you get there. Study up! (Call your coach!)

9. And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself

I’m going to get serious here, because you don’t want to be doing anything, or having any reaction “in spite of yourself.” This is what EQ is all about. Me, 20 years in PR, and I could still be thrown momentarily. You will have emotional reactions, you’re human … such as when you’re meeting your senior partner’s wife for first time, and she staggers in dead drunk, making Tammy Faye look like a nun, and says, “No s***” when you’re introduced.

Or Tom, mailroom man, arrives with his two children, both in wheelchairs with cerebral palsy, and you didn’t know this, and you “don’t know what to say,” and Santa’s gifts for all kids will be skateboards.

10. And to all a good night?

Don’t be last to leave (or to arrive). It’s just not cool. But don’t dash away either; don’t be first to leave (or to arrive). Balance … moderation … self-management … EQ … if you want a sleigh full of toys. Susan Dunn, http://www.susandunn.cc