Thinking about processes - 2

To continue thinking about processes, I wonder what it takes to wake me up to the way things have changed.

Just because I set my own agenda doesn't mean I am setting the best agenda for myself.  Just because something worked last year doesn't mean it will work this year.  A close friend of mine is wrestling with this, as I have.  In his profession the best way to succeed has changed.  The old way(s) are not working.  When I moved from one state to another, from one kind of community to another, my former successful methods were met with resistance and boredom, and were not successful at all.

It took me a couple of years to recognize that the agendas I set for myself were failure agendas.

In a variety of situations I learned that it was not only necessary to set my own agenda, but to recognize the ways differing circumstances required me to change my agenda often.

How does a person learn to think fluidly, to change soon enough but not too soon?  Can this be taught?

I wonder about this part of the thinking process.  What do you think?