Don't be afraid of technology coming in and making things more efficient. Many people fear that the introduction of technology will displace people from good jobs. And even if they aren't necessarily good, at least they pay!

I understand this sentiment. We all want to preserve something that is good. When we find something good we don't want it to change. But whether we like it or not, the march of the market causes the change.

Instead, embrace technology. Don't shun it. Technology is what got us cheap and safe cars, technology is what enables farmers to feed three times the population they fed 80 years ago with the same amount of land. Technology is what has freed people from back breaking labor to pursue education and improve their lives and the lives of their children.

Sure, there will be shake ups, some people including you will have to adapt to new realities. It will be hard, and you might find yourself wishing things were as they used to be. But don't let yourself indulge those feelings. You must learn how to be successful in a world that demands adaptability and creativity, because all the rote work will eventually be programmed into a computer or robot.

And who will control the robots? We will! The creative and adaptive humans that we all are! Don't be sad that a job stamping papers 8 hours a day can now be done by a stamping robot. Rejoice that you are now freed to move up the chain of creativity!

In fact, the successful person of the future will use their creative muscles to create systems to accomplish their tasks, and then program those systems into their robot underlings. The truth is, this is already happening. The secret sauce that makes some people in the computer science industry so effective is that they know how to program repetitive tasks into their computer. So while you spend 30 minutes creating a photolog with pictures you took for a project, they are accomplishing the same task in maybe 5 minutes, having automated the document creation and dragging and dropping, sizing, and ordering of the photos. Meaning all this person has left to accomplish is typing the photo descriptions.

Tony Robbins recently said in an interview that he often tells his top tier business clients that each of their businesses is actually two businesses. The business that it is right now, and the business it is becoming. Both of these businesses need the operator's attention or the business will fail. I will say the same thing about jobs. Every job you'll ever have is two jobs, the job it is today, and the job it will become. If you ignore what the job will become and focus only on the job as it is today you will find that the job just disappears and you don't know how to do the new job it has become. In this day and age EVERY job is becoming more and more influenced by software and hardware solutions. Therefor, if you want to prepare for what your job will be in the future, you need to start learning how to wrangle the technology that exists to help make you more effective. Once you've done that you'll then need to look ahead five to ten years to see how upcoming technology might be applied to make you even more effective.

Don't be afraid of the robot / software revolution! Get ahead of it. Make the robots do your bidding rather than showing up one day to find out that your job was replaced by a mechanical arm.