Are You A Buy Stock or A Sell Stock?

If you were a company, which example would you most represent your current status:

A) Your services/products are becoming obsolete because you are failing to recognize new trends and changes in consumer habits. Consequently your sales are shrinking and your stock prices are lower. In short, you are a company in decline, whose stock should be sold.


B) You see investment in Research and development as key to your company's continued vitability. By keeping abreast of changes in the marketplace and with consumer tastes your company consistently creates products/services that appeal to your target audience. Consequently your business is growing and the value of your stock continues to rise.

Unfortunately, too many of our businesses would look like A. In too many instances people are not regularly re-evaluating their skills, education or mind set to see whether what they possess is appropriate for their current life or career circumstances. The result is that we are not positioning ourselves to take advantage of opportunities that maybe presented to us, nor are we shoring up our resources to deal with the financial turbulance that occur with job loss, divorce, or a major illness major.

Bishop T.D. Jakes in his book,Reposition Yourself: Live Your Life Without Limit helps readers to readjust their thinking to deal with the many changes that life presents. Bishop Jakes discusses how many people are held back because they are attached to old behaviors or beliefs that don't serve their current needs or circumstances.

In order to "reposition yourself" you need to be honest about where you want to go and where you are falling short in attaining that goal. Some of the key areas for examination are:

1) Your Health-Want do you need to do to improve it according to your doctor?

2) Your skills/education-If you were fired tomorrow, do You have the necessary skills, education and professional network to get a new and better job in today's marketplace?

3) Your Finances: Do you have enough money and insurance to withstand a major financial blow such as losing your job or becoming disabled (even temporarily)?

4) Your Relationships: What do you need to do to deepen and strengthen your relationship with family and friends?


Whether or not you become a compnay in decline or one on the rise is largely based on regularly upgrading yourself. It's not about change for change sake. It's about improve yourself so that you can live happily and abundantly in a rapidly changing world.