The Power of Systems

Or to use another sports cliché, as Wayne Gretzky may have said, “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Why Wayne? Why do you skate to where the puck is going? Can you explain your deep philosophical system? By the time we finished asking that question, Wayne would already be gone, to where the puck is going next. There

In other words, the paradigm of systems is the recognition that life isn’t personal.

When my phone gets a low battery and I plug it into the charger, it gets powered up. My phone “asks for help,” gets help, and is given access to power.

The immediate impact was the evaporation of what they knew for sure was the source of their problem: the mind/psychology.

P: Hmmm, so you weren’t kidding when you said earlier that everything is a system, and my world is simply full of systems that either work or don’t, and we can always slow down to find the system that isn’t working and replace it with one that is.

Just like the little boy in the movie The Sixth Sense who says, “I see dead people,” but less creepy and more practical. Perhaps this demonstrates the old adage that “Everywhere you look, you see what you are looking for.”

We spend the first twenty-two years of our life being judged and praised for our individual attributes and what we can achieve alone, when, for the rest of our life, our success is almost entirely interconnected with that of others. ~ Shawn Achor Big Potential

We look at what is happening or not happening in the world, and we experiment with the system currently in place, until it gives us the results we want.

When my clients became willing to try the system of having an inspiring morning ritual, they were amazed at how it changed their experience of life. I noticed that they didn’t have to first change their “mindset,” personality or character to have this happen. Their new system took care of that.