Change your Default Settings

Saturday, August 26th, 2006
In the technological world the process of changing the default settings on your printer, pc or software is very common and quite easy. Usually, you go to a menu and change the parameters and hit a reset button. The setting is fixed until you return to the menu and make another parameter change. Making changes to our personal default settings isn’t nearly as easy or done as quickly.

Microsoft says that to change default behaviour of USMT 3.0( don’t ask me to explain, it is only used as an analogy),you will need to adjust and modify your view. Our view needs to be modified if a behaviour change is going to occur. Most Canadians have their default setting on ‘observer/bystander’ rather than checking the option of ‘participant or advocate.’ How different would our view be if our inclination was to involvement rather than indifference? Would we be more receptive and ready for action? Would innovative solutions arise if we were conditioned to respond with something fresh and inspirational? Change doesn’t come from safely and perfectly holding on to the known ( ideas, values, reactions, solutions) but rather by imperfectly struggling towards the unknown.

Let’s begin changing our settings and not just relying on our defaults.