The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think and act anew. Abraham Lincoln.

It has been almost 150 years in another time of great strife and change that those words attributed to Lincoln were uttered but they are as valid today as they were then.

The very nature of work is changing. Family and personal relationships are evolving. Emerging countries are shedding centuries old traditional political and economic bonds. Nothing seems as it was.

Struggling to deal with the Social Media phenomenon, Individuals, businesses and nations are creating new rules on the go. Privacy, as we used to measure it, is a thing of the past. Today’s news is yesterday’s, seemingly as soon as it tweeted.

This is not a time for the faint of heart. Just as we have in the past so will we get through this period. It is what humankind always does.

As we bravely, resolutely pick our away through the debris of the old, seeking the road to the new, the question each of us has to ask ourselves is this:

What can I do, what must I do to best engage and participate in this bright new future – for me, my family and friend and my business or career?

Added to that question, especially at this point in time, is another, equally important:
Am I doing my life right?