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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.
There is a scene in the Friends TV show when Ross is on sabbatical. He is complaining to his friend Joey that he completed a bunch of chores and still has nothing to do.
Joey’s advice was to slow down and stretch out the things on his to do list. He said he shouldn’t have done it all in a few hours in one morning, but rather should have made it last all week.
Read MoreThere is a song I really like that isn’t very popular. It is called Never and is written by a Hawaiian reggae band called The Green.
The lyrics are powerful. The music is melodic but feels as if there is this underlying energy. It feels like calm yet forceful energy.
Read MoreRaising children provides a never-ending opportunity to learn. Often, I am struck by how wise they are while other times they seem to lack common sense.
One theme that arises when parenting is the idea that they don’t connect their choice with the outcome they receive. They don’t see that they chose to argue with mom creating their punishment. Or they don’t realize that they didn’t return home on time causing them to be grounded. Or they are upset their tablet battery drained but don’t take responsibility for forgetting to charge it overnight.
Read MoreFollowing the systems and habits approach to improvement means that we value consistency. We use it to build future value by designing our thoughts and actions and reinforcing them over time.
When inevitable chaos ensues, which it always does, it can be difficult to maintain that consistent approach. It frustrates us. It causes emotional upheaval.
Read MoreEvery summer, as the weather starts to warm, my music taste shifts. Normally I am a huge reggae fan. But I tend to shift to the laid-back summer country music that was popularized by Jimmy Buffett and continues through Zach Brown Band, Kenny Chesney, Jesse Rice, Brian Kelley and many more.
The music gets me in the summer mood. The positive, yet melancholy vibe is a welcome and familiar friend after a long, cold winter in Ohio. Any road trip or flight to paradise will include these songs and they recur in my life like Christmas music that comes every summer instead of December.
Read MoreTrying to move the needle for any goal requires persistence. I use a technique called setting the minimum quite a bit. It helps transition from hoping and wanting, to action.
The action steps we take are what will determine success or failure. Getting to those steps isn’t always easy. In fact, often we procrastinate and hold back on acting.
Read MoreEveryone knows the feeling of taking one step forward and then two steps back. We make a little progress, but that gets reversed. We feel as though we regressed instead of gaining ground.
This frustrates us. We don’t want to go backward. We want to race towards our goals at full speed. Anything less feels like it isn’t enough.
Read MoreLife is complicated. There is a complexity to life that flows through everyone and everything. Despite attempts to simplify, there is still uncertainty and intricacy to everything we experience.
Linear thinking removes all the complexity and looks to link 2 points and drawing meaning from them. It tells us that there is one reason for something and one outcome to be expected by various tactics.
Read MoreFor many, happiness is measured by the pleasurable moments in life. it could the excitement and fun they had. It could be the delicious meal or the feeling of being on a roller coaster.
For others, contentment is the yardstick. Were they relaxed and content with their life or did they feel they had to always be moving? They value the peace and calm.
Read MoreIn the midst of chaos, it can be very difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It engulfs you. It pulls you in. It convinces you that this new normal will last.
But every storm ends. This too shall pass. The turbulent times will give way to peace and calm. We need to be able to keep this perspective to make it through.
Read MoreAs we travel through life, we often uncover a need to change. It may be that we have been eating out too much and want to lose weight or save money. It might be related to our relationships. We want to be a better spouse or spend more time with our children.
Most people come face to face with a desire to have a different outcome than what they are experiencing at some point in their life. I know I come to this realization often. The problem arises when it comes time to execute on that desire.
Read MoreMy family and I are planning a trip to the beach this summer. I have been searching for fun family activities and watching the local weather as our excitement grows for some fun, water, and family time.
As I was preparing for the trip, I saw an article about a shark attack close to the beach we are visiting. It interested me and I started to read the article. I realized it was a few years old but still caught me off guard.
Read MoreI could never be a politician. Besides the fact that I don’t align with any major political party, I would not be successful. There are many reasons why my skills and ability would leave me struggling in any political role, despite the level of authority and responsibility.
The biggest challenge for me is that I don’t think in groups. I think in terms of the individual. When a politician sees that a certain group should be treated differently or laws should be passed to oversee everyone, I tend to disagree. I feel more harm is often done with these policies.
Read MoreMost business leaders do extensive strategic planning for their business. They are responsible for profit and loss for their area and must manage their team strategically.
The strategy provides the direction. It gives the team a target and something to pursue. It provides a guide to follow when things get chaotic. Without a plan, the team goes through the motions hoping it takes them towards success.
Read MoreSometimes we experience a shift in our mindsets that goes against everything we thought we knew. It could be through tragedy or extreme circumstance but sometimes it is a subtle jab at us that proves us wrong.
I’ve had many of these moments. Many weren’t significant, except that the mental change stood out to me.
Read MoreLuck is such a funny topic to me. If you talk to successful people, they minimize luck in their lives. They take credit for the success and see luck as something they managed.
If you talk with unsuccessful people, they maximize luck in their lives. They claim that bad luck caused their hardships and that despite their valiant efforts, they had external factors go against them.
Read MoreMost of are guilty of comparing our personal accomplishments with others. We see someone in our field win an award and feel inadequate. We see numerous people struggle to make it at our company and feel pride for being able to survive and thrive in such a challenging space.
These comparisons to others are common. They seem to help point us in the right direction. It shows us what is possible. Or it shows us what we have accomplished.
Read MoreWhen I am pushing towards a new level of success, I often find that continuing to make progress requires slowing down, not speeding up. I need to pump the brakes a bit to get around the turn.
This is a difficult lesson to learn. I learned it the hard way. In fact, I didn’t learn it when I should have so I had to keep learning it the hard way until it clicked.
Read MoreI find that people that hold absolute opinions tend to be short-sighted. Life is complex. There are so many ways to look at something.
Systems thinking is the idea that we see the full system instead of the parts alone. We can see the parts, but we see the interconnection between those parts.
Read MoreI recently took an interesting personality assessment. It provided great insights into my personality and traits that I can leverage for success.
Afterwards, it created lively discussion with those of us involved in the assessment. We talked through various factors. I felt that the discussion provided as much, or more, value than the assessment.
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