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Watching the news in October was like watching a cheap horror movie, everyone had a different take on just how bad things could get but none was very well thought out and they all seemed to have the same two themes - soup lines and shanty towns.

It’s interesting though when you watch real people (meaning not the ones paid by TV networks) there seem to be two sharply divided camps and one of them is a lot larger than the other. Let me describe them and see if you can guess which is bigger.

Camp 1
These are the people who believe its best to try and understand just how “bad” things can get, the ones who are scared that the way things are is going to end and be replaced by something else and instead of trying to understand what the world is changing to but they are mourning the loss of what they know.

They are scared, scared of living in a country that no longer remains the worlds only superpower, scared of loosing the safety net of unions and millions of factory jobs, scared that credit might not be as easy to get and that they might not be able to keep on as things have been. They firmly believe in the status quo and feel “safe” doing things that have been done before. But when things changed they are still looking for “safe”.

Camp 2
There is another mindset I have observed. These are the people who are excited about things changing, excited about the opportunity and the shift. These people are the ones who realize that things can not stay the same forever and that in the moment of unrest and shifting new seats of power open up.

I bet you can guess who I want you to be.

It’s amazing to see the entire country divide in a few short months into these very distinct camps. It’s like everyone just walked over to their side of the playground and picked their team without any team captains or leaders to tell them what to do.

The problem is times like this don’t last forever, we start to realize the sky is not falling and get comfortable with the new reality and move on. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes years but the point is we always settle no mater what the circumstances and once we settle we start to take steps again.

Musical Chairs
Think of it this way: it’s musical chairs…only the music only plays a few times every 100 years and the people in their chairs have either been sitting there forever or sat and waited at that specific chair for a very long time waiting for the one sitting there to either move on or die off.

So all these people are sitting in their chairs, grass growing up around them because they have been there so long, watching the world go by and all fat and happy that they have a chair to sit in. Then - boom! something happens, something that only happens once or maybe twice in our lifetimes. Someone screams that the chairs are going to break! and everyone gets up at the same time worried that they might be one of the ones sitting on a broken chair and all of a sudden we don’t have any leaders any more things are crazy for a while and no one knows what to do.

Now imagine you were one of the people wandering around looking for an empty chair wondering when one of them would open up and let you in. Then all of a sudden they are all empty…..Hmm. Do you run over and huddle with everyone else and see if a leader emerges who will tell us when its safe to go sit down or do you take the stand that you were made for?

The world needs new leaders. Just because things are finally shifting does not mean they have not been broken for a long time. In my world that was the public home builders sitting in those chairs, they had been there for 50+ years and the fact that they occupied those seats did not mean they still should. Things changed a long time ago and very few of them actually understood that, and even the ones that did were so comfortable sitting down that it was hard to do anything about it. But they all stood up and are huddling somewhere trying to decide when its safe to sit down again. I for one and not waiting for them to come back and start building the same old stuff again. I think the world is ready for something new.

Who are the people sitting in your chair? Are they even still sitting there? Are you ready to lead people in a new direction? We need you now more than ever.