{"id":1201,"date":"2012-12-18T08:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T13:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2016-05-03T18:15:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T22:15:01","slug":"think-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/12\/18\/think-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a business, strive to own one in the future, or are working for someone else, as the year comes to an end, we often think about change.\u00a0 If you were born before 1980, you might want to take some lessons from the Millennial Generation, these youngsters were born after 1980 and have a totally different world.\u00a0 So, here are some tips to help me (and maybe you, too) think younger in 2013.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Focus on the Experience<\/strong> not the job:\u00a0 Many employees will not be at a career long enough to climb the corporate ladder.\u00a0\u00a0 As an employer, helping your employees grow may keep them from going away.\u00a0 Julie Giulioni&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1609946324\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1609946324&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20\">Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go<\/a> has some sage advice on this topic.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consult Your Elders:<\/strong> In spite of the classic child\/parent conflicts, millennials like and seek out their parents&#8217; advice.\u00a0 Think mentor of the moment and remember that some elders are elders in their experience not necessarily their years of life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More Training:<\/strong>\u00a0 Learning is key to a happy brain.\u00a0\u00a0 Brains like to play and learning and practicing new things are play.\u00a0 Look at where you want your business to go and learn what you can to get there.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t be an Eeyore<\/strong>:\u00a0 In case you forgot, Eeyore was the donkey in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;field-keywords=winni%20the%20pooh&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;tag=changinglanes.biz-20&amp;url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks\">Winnie the Pooh <\/a>who was the perpetually whining.\u00a0\u00a0 Millennials often have huge debts from their education and still they see the future as optimist.\u00a0 If I don&#8217;t see a silver lining in a situation, whining usually only turns others away from my ideas.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.helpguide.org\/life\/humor_laughter_health.htm\">Laughter is good medicine.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Change is good, embrace it, keep learning and be willing to start over and find what you really want to do for your next business adventure.\u00a0 Oh yes, if your parents are still living, spend time with them and ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a business, strive to own one in the future, or are working for someone else, as the year comes to an end, we often think about change.\u00a0 If you were born before 1980, you might want to take some lessons from the Millennial Generation, these youngsters were born after 1980 and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-improvement","category-employee-management","category-personal-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}