Aren’t you curious about when this recession is going to be over? Are you wondering why things seem to be growing steadily worse as our leaders scramble for solutions that seem to be as effective as shooting a spit ball at a charging rhinoceros? These may be the questions you’re asking as you watch the news reports about relentless downsizing, layoffs, corporate bankruptcies and the devastating plague of personal financial struggles sweeping the globe.

Are you clutching the bit of financial security and certainty that you still have in hopes that the wind and the rain of this financial storm will end? If so, you might soon find yourself beating on the door of the proverbial ark which is being constructed by those who have effectively read the signs of the times…

And what are the signs of the times?

Well, you might have heard all the experts of personal achievement encouraging people that this is an economic season which will pass and that abundance will once again emerge. But this is not the entire truth. The truth is that we are in the midst of a tumultuous transition from the predictable and quantifiable economic model of the industrial age to the more flexible and less predictable economic model of the new economic age.

Why will the economic model of the new age be less predictable?

Because it will be less governed by systems and processes as was the case in the industrial age. Technology is advancing at such a rapid rate that even the most rock solid systems for building and running businesses will become obsolete before they are efficiently refined. The leaders of the coming age will not be the masters of systems and processes; they will be masters of creative innovations for meeting the basic needs which drive people’s buying decisions.

Furthermore, large dinosaur corporations which are easily weighed down by politics and bureaucracy will lack the versatility to change and adapt quickly. If you doubt this, just think about the last large corporation you worked for and how difficult it was to make even a simple change in procedures and systems of execution. For a time, such large corporations had the advantage of large-scale communication centers from which their operations could be run and expensive technologies which were not available to small businesses or solo entrepreneurs.

But the technology of the information age is so efficient, cost-effective and mobile that these advantages which were once only available to corporate empires have been made available to all. The playing field has been leveled, leaving the larger corporations only with the cumbersome challenge of changing and adapting according to the volatile environment of the new marketplace. We are now watching these companies come apart before our very eyes in fear that what we are witnessing is the collapse of our economy.

This is what’s all over the news, but it’s not the entire picture. What many of us are not hearing about it the army of freelancers, solo entrepreneurs and small-business owners who are arising to carry the torch for the next generation. These are the leaders of tomorrow who have been planning, studying and reinvent themselves according to the principles which will govern the new age…

As Eric Hoffer once said: “In times of drastic change the learners will survive while the learned will find themselves well equipped to deal with a reality which no longer exists.”

The reality which no longer exists is the soon to be extinct mindset of the industrial age.

Those who understand this principle and are effectively reinventing themselves will be the leaders of the new age…the age of wisdom. That’s right. The information age will not last long, because information in itself is worth nothing. It is only valuable when it finds its way into the hands of someone who can construct that information into practical plans of action for the purpose of achieving tangible results.

Soon we will transition into an age where wisdom must be used to discern what information is truthful and applicable for achieving results and what is just theory. The only way to make this distinction will be to understand the unchangeable principles upon which every economy in the history of man has been built. Do you understand what these principles are? If not, it’s time to stop waiting for the recession to end. It’s time to abandon the industrial age mindset and to embrace the principles of the age of wisdom.

Waiting is no longer an option, the rains are falling, the rains aren’t going to stop…and the doors of the ark are closing fast.

The first of these principles begins with understanding human behavior….beginning with your own. I’ve created a free ebook called “The Human Condition” which you can download today. Just fill in the form below and I’ll rush it to you, along with a nine part teaching on the secret of achievement and success in the age of wisdom.