Life is Now Exponential in Size and Travels at Warp Speed

Recently I received a PowerPoint presentation that questioned what we know as individuals. This was quite powerful because one of the tools that I use with my business coaching clients is the Law of Process that explains what we do not know or our incompetencies.

Have you ever heard that you are "one in a million?" Maybe your husband or significant other said that to you or maybe you said that to your child. Today that means there are another 1,300 people just like you if you lived in China.

During the course of one minute to read this short article, 7 babies will be born in the United States, 30 babies will be born in China and 44 babies will be born in India. Now multiply that by 1440 minutes and the world's population for just 3 countries will increase by 117,360 individuals in just one day.

We all know that the world is changing at incredible rates. The change we experience in one year exceeds the change that our grandparents experienced in their entire lifetimes.

Young people today according to the U.S. Department of Labor will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38. And what is even more incredible is that the anticipated top jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. What this means is that we are attempting to prepare young people for jobs that do not even exist and we are still using an 19th century agrian school model to create 21st century jobs. Not to mention that these future jobs are trying to solve problems that are unknown as well.

Did you know that 3,000 books are being published each and every day? Imagine over 500 years ago and how long it took to print just one book on the Gutenberg press?

Life has reached exponential proportions where size does matter. However, do not forget that even the largest of the large can be brought down with the smallest of the small. And that my friends is what we all must remember as we enter this new era of incredible size and enormous speed.