title: Ride the Wave of Change: The Ultimate Guide to Life Surfing
author: Norman Mitchell
description: Norman Mitchell is an Organizational Psychologist with over 25 years experience as a Management and Performance Consultant. His work has focused on improving organizational effectiveness with organizations in the Insurance, Automobile, Banking, Telecommunications, and Manufacturing Industries. Norman has developed and delivered corporate training courses targeted at enhancing Leadership Development, Communication, Crisis and Change Management, and Self-Empowerment Skills. Norman wrote this book to respond to the many requests he received from participants in his corporate training courses and has integrated the skills used in ocean surfing to create the concept of life surfing, which after 25 years of teaching workshops, seminars, and corporate training classes, are skills that have proven to be extremely successful for addressing times of stress, change, uncertainty, and crisis. Norman's use of life surfing exercises and techniques are a composite of many years of research and study in Psychology, Philosophy, Eastern Religions, Physics, Metaphysics and New Age Methodologies.
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  # [Chapter One](content-toc.xhtml#pz5-1_a)
  
  
  
  
  
  One day you’re this. The next day you’re that. Everything can change so
  quickly. Not even in just one day, but in one hour. Or, in my case, one
  minute. Think of it as Nick Peterson Before. And Nick Peterson After.
  
  
  
  
  
  By the time I hit sixteen, surfing had become the biggest thing in my life.
  All that kid glory from skateboarding was behind me. Hockey had me for a
  while, but it faded. As did football and track. I had some glory there too.
  But it was all in the past when surfing became my thing. _The_ thing. But
  enough ancient history. Let’s cut to the event.
  
  
  
  
  
  September found me back in school, a ripping summer of waves behind me. I had
  surfed almost every day. I’d given lessons, too, and made decent cash. I had
  persuaded Olivia to be my girlfriend. Olivia—a year older than me, with her
  own 