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Using systems and habits to improve your life is a proven method to succeed. It requires seeing the work as a system and then adjusting your thoughts and behaviors to be able to take advantage of your opportunities in life.
Humans have evolved to put more value in the current moment than in the future. We want happiness, success, pleasure, etc. now. We want to avoid pain, discomfort, and struggle.
This makes sense on many levels and helped the earliest humans. But in today’s world, this leads us to make poor decisions.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has impacted everyone. We all had to learn how to change to stay safe. We all had to figure out the level of risk that we were willing to take in daily activities.
Want to go buy some milk? Never before has there been a risk such as this. Want to keep working to make an income to support yourself and your family, that comes with risk. Forced to stay home and close your business? That comes with risk as well.
Read MoreLife can be chaotic. We all experience ups and downs in life. Some of these are natural, such as our aging through time, and other times this is unexpected.
Regardless of why, the impact is real. It feels as though complexity has overcome our world and stolen control. Without control, we start to get anxious. For many, this leads to a panicked mindset.
Read MoreIt seems in our world today empathy is not promoted. Instead we get messages of hatred, unfairness, and threat.
We see it on the news reports of violence. We hear it in the political speeches about the evils of the opposing party. We experience in the cut-throat work environments where everyone tries to better themselves. It grabs our attention from the constant shouting of marketing messages. These all seem to be void of empathy.
Read MoreThere is a lot of misunderstanding around habits. Some people feel that habit only refers the small number of behaviors that we dislike but do anyways. They think about biting their nails. They remember when they had a smoking habit.
Even science has come out with misinformation. Many people have heard about the studies that show a habit takes 21 days to form. They say that is average but almost all habits fit into this structure. But this is completely incorrect.
Read MorePeople often look to systems as the cause of unhappiness in the world. They argue that systems are creating victims. If someone is not happy and successful, then the system must be unjust.
Judging systems leads us to believe that they are like people, acting towards their goal or mission. We can see an “evil” system form and then those hurt by the system become victims.
Read MoreWhen things get difficult, many people see two options. They can push through and handle the stress and discontent. Or they can quit and do something else.
I see it all the time. When we are trying to self-improve, we start to fall into a rut. Everything seems to be more difficult than it should be. Our progress slows and might even seem like we are going backwards.
Read MoreThere are many ways to leverage the work that you do with systems and habits to get the most from it. Most of my articles focus on getting started. The difficulty exists for most in the early stages of learning to use systems to improve. Once you get the hang of it, you can transfer that insight into many other areas of your life.
But some people get stuck after they form the right habits. They want to get more out of them. They want more bang for their buck. What they want is to leverage what they have done to get even more value from their processes.
Read MoreWhen you start working on building new habits and systems in your life, you will get to a point where you aren’t further along than you wish. You will feel stuck. You will question the path and wonder when it will all pay off.
The reason is simple. When we switch from focusing on the outcome, to working on the processes, we have a lot to change before we start to see the rewards.
Read MoreSystems thinking helps us to see underlying systems throughout our lives. One element that emerges is the idea that many things in life are paradoxical.
This means that the opposite exists along with it. An example can be found by looking at how we define beauty. Beauty only exists because ugliness exists. If there was only beauty, there wouldn’t even be a word for it. Beauty only makes sense when contrasted with things that are not beautiful.
Read MoreLife is complicated. We all have many things pulling at us at all times. It could be the pull of our attention to an advertisement. It could be the pull from a job to keep working. It could be the pull the spend more time with family.
We also have a pull to exercise and get healthy. We have a pull to save more money and pay off debt. We have a pull to treat ourselves and celebrate successes.
Read MoreMost of us know the feeling of having our back to the wall. I’m not referring to literally having your back against the wall, but figuratively. It is the feeling as though we are running out of options. We have to take action, and now. We become filled with some energy and some fear.
For some, that is the spark that starts an improvement journey. They take that motivation and energy and turn it into new behaviors. They take action and see results from their actions.
Read MoreThe other day I was listening to reggae music and I heard a song about full control. It started my mind around control and how most people want more control in life.
We all crave control. We wish we could snap our fingers and have anything we want. Some would create peace on earth. Some would create riches for themselves or others. Some would treat life like an extended vacation and never work again.
Read MoreSuccessful people all over the world understand how to gain the most from their efforts. They understand how to magnify the results. They use specific tactics that allow them to gain in a logarithmic fashion isn’t of a linear fashion.
Instead of investing a small amount and getting a small amount back, they gain a large amount. This sounds simple but the reality is that it involves leverage. They leverage what they have to get more.
Read MoreThe world recently came face-to-face with a growing feedback loop. The novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, shook the world. It erupted and spread in a manner not seen in over a hundred years.
It forced a completely new way to go through daily life. It caused such major change that it can be difficult to see the systematic elements at play.
Read MoreIn life, we all have choices. We all decide the direction our life takes. But many feel that they don’t have options. They feel forced in one direction.
I tend to sound like a broken record at times when we are working and run into problems. After we analyze the situation and look for numerous ways to respond, we get stuck.
Read MoreWe all want success and happiness now. We don’t want to experience pain or discomfort now. Why would anyone want to suffer in the moment if we have a choice?
This sentiment leads most of us to crave pleasure now. We don’t want unhappiness. We don’t want struggle. No, we simply want to keep enjoying life all the way through, now especially.
Read MoreIf you want a better life, learn to see your own processes. Your processes direct your life. They determine success. They determine happiness. They create all that is around you.
Most people equate this to behaviors. We can see many habits. We see our routines. We envision our life in this way.
Read MoreMost of us have a lot of control in our life. But we don’t have total control. We can’t simply quit our job and travel the world. We can’t force our family to do what we want. We don’t have enough money to buy whatever we like.
This leads many people to focus on the areas that are out of their control. Their focus shifts to be on the things they wish they had control over.
Read MoreWe all have a hard time seeing things objectively. We distort reality to fit our preconceived notions about the world.
This isn’t something that is done by someone with some mental disorder. Everyone does this. That means you. That also means me.
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