30) The Transformation Of Meaning...

by Adam Khoo

Imagine that the company you have worked so hard for in the last 20
years decided that it was time to retrench you because they can
replace you with someone at half your salary. How would you feel?

What meaning would you give to this experience?

Most people would feel angry, bitter and rejected. Because it means
that their source of income and security is gone, cut off.

They would feel betrayed. They would feel that they have just
wasted 20 years of their life. They would feel that they are too
old and no longer of value! The meaning they attach to this
experience would put them in a totally un-resourceful state.

What do you think will happen when people in such a state go for a
new job interview? Will they impress upon their prospective new
employer qualities of enthusiasm, passion, energy and drive?

Not likely. Chances are that they will unconsciously exhibit low
self-esteem, bitterness and jadedness.

As a result, it will take them a long time to find someone who
wants to hire them. Even if they eventually find another job, it
may be a part-time job or one of much lower status and pay.

Now, in this new job do you think they will give their all? Most
likely they would be thinking to themselves, 'What's the point? I
gave my best years to my former company, look where it has gotten
me?'

As a result, this person will reinforce the meaning he has attached
to the retrenchment, that it was the worst thing that has ever
happened to him.

At the same time, I have also seen many other people attach a
totally different meaning to the same experience of retrenchment.
To these positive people, retrenchment means that it is the
company's great loss.

It means that they have the opportunity to start a new career or
business in a field they have a whole lot more passion for. It
means that they will finally be paid what they are worth!

And the 'bonus' is that they are getting a great pay-out which will
be the seed money to get them started in a business they always
wanted to be in, but never had a good reason to start. Getting
retrenched also means that they have much more freedom and
flexibility to plan ahead.

For those looking for a new employer, retrenchment could mean that
they are glad to leave an ungrateful company and move to another
where they would be more appreciated, whose corporate culture would
be more in sync with theirs.

By framing retrenchment in this way, these people attach a whole
different meaning to the same experience. They put themselves into
a total resourceful state of possibility, enthusiasm, motivation,
passion and excitement.

They will be driven to upgrade their skills, hunt for new career
opportunities and even start their own business. As a result of
taking all this action do you think they will end up in a situation
that is better than where they were previously?

Of course! I have so many (older) friends who were forced to start
their own business after the 1987 recession and, because of this,
many of them are a lot wealthier, happier and have a greater sense
of freedom and purpose.

One of these enterprising people I know has just listed his
shipping company and is personally worth $28 million. He keeps
saying that the layoff was the best thing that ever happened to
him. Again, the meaning these people choose to give to their
experience was the meaning they created.

Why is it that the same experience can destroy one person and
empower another to a new level of success?

We re-present (frame) things very differently in our minds. Some
people have a pattern of constantly framing experiences in such a
way that it dis-empowers them and puts them in un-resourceful
states. Others constantly frame things in a way that gets them
empowered and extremely resourceful.

So which re-presentation of The Experience is true? Is it a
blessing or a curse? Is it an opportunity or a problem? However you
choose to re-present the experience becomes true for you.

>>> Frame your success here now!

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