"Change appears to equal "Better" - APRIL 2015

Over 100 years ago, GK Chesterton wrote:

“Now this is the attitude which I attack. It is the view that because we have got into a mess we must grow messier to suit it; that because we have taken a wrong turn some time ago we must go forward and not backwards; that because we have lost our way, we must lose out map also and because we have missed our ideal we must forget it”

We are bombarded today with problems, fears, information and research that continue to increase our financial, emotional and physical security problems.

Experts and supposed leaders encourage us to believe that the total answer lies in creating more rules and charging more taxes to ‘make individuals’ conform and behave as the exports believe is right.

Over the last 30 years society more has acquired more diseases, more emotional and more financial insecurity than ever before. Despite the enormous innovation in communication, health, inventions and other technology - we continuously are bombarded with “change.”  We must ‘change’. 

‘Change’ is inevitable. You must find new ideas to stay ahead. We need more time saving devices so we can have a better life balance.

“Change appears to equal Better”

Despite all this ‘Change’ - there is more fear, more worry, more scarcity, less hope, less ambition, less belief that we can choose how we think and act.

We change Governments, employers, businesses - to find something better. Instead of working on ourselves and planning a better life and making the ‘changes’ that suit us, our family, our health and our finances.

Over the past 30 years Governments of all types have worked on the same ideas and dabbled in asset sale, higher, taxes, amalgamations, interest rates, borrowing to achieve a surplus and to increase jobs. 

Sadly, we are still in debt - our welfare increases - as does our poverty.

Perhaps the ‘change’ we need is to look back on better times. See why they were better and adjust our mindset and policies so that we can apply them to today.

We must have taken some wrong turns to get to where we are. And we will never achieve the harmony, justice and security we are entitled to unless we re-access our present dilemma with an eye on how this has occurred.

Perhaps it is time that as individuals, we read and take note of what Chesteron wrote 100 years ago. Perhaps it is time to rethink our values, behaviour and priorities and make the turns that will lead us back to the ideals and with wisdom that worked so well 30-50 years ago.

Take care, Mario

Written by: Mario Calanna

CEO Calanna Pharmacy Group