A Good System Shortens the Road to the Goal.
If you’ve written your new year’s resolution the traditional way, you’ve just put yourself at a disadvantage. I’m just as surprised as you are discovering this because it’s obvious. Waiting until a specific time or date to start making your life better means your procrastinating, and you’re
losing at the game. I understand the idea behind new year resolutions, I was using the concept for years. People like the idea of ‘starting a new’ with the clock ticking over to another year. It’s a psychological fallacy that we comfort ourselves with. It put’s people’s minds at ease by granting a sense of security and achievement, albeit often a false one.
A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every time
Most people have never challenged the idea of time being a man-made construct. But for what we are trying to achieve, we need to start looking at the world as it truly is and not as we want it to be. And that’s where the concept of Intense Realism comes in. I learned the idea from the rapper Fifty Cent and the contemporary historian Robert Greene in their book, The 50th Law. Intense Reality is the ability to accept your circumstance or
the situation of the world we live in and armed with that knowledge, take responsibility for the changes we make. Having a precise understanding of Reality is an essential foundation for positive results.
And it’s by applying this Intense Realism to New Year resolutions that I stumbled upon the concept of Systems.
What are systems, and why should they replace goals?
Systems, for me, are the daily processes you Implement consistently that build upon each other to bring about your desired outcome. Systems aren’t affected by emotion, by seasons, by personality or any other human foibles we can use as an excuse. Once the process of the system becomes second nature to you, it will flow effortlessly. The power is in the effect systems have in getting the results you want by focusing on the steps and only the steps that will get
you there.
Goals, on the other hand, are more concerned with the outcome but not necessarily the methods to get you there.
My overall novel-writing system is a good example. It produces novels. And within that system are smaller systems that make up the whole. A cover design system, an editing system, a marketing system, and so on. A critical system I have concerns itself with creating my First Draft. The process involves constructing a mind map, writing by hand every day in special notebooks, and expanding on the plot and characters as I go. It doesn’t require anything special on
my part other than discipline. Once I plug in, provide it with the elements of creativity and time, and it will churn out my first draft within five months.
Wishing for results will not help. The Reality is you must put in the work to create systems and to implement them. By becoming Intensely Realistic about your circumstances and what you want to achieve, Being open-minded, knowing what you want, and defining what success looks like to you. The only thing missing is to create your own system based on five steps:
1- Define your goals
2- Face your problems
3- Diagnose the root cause of the problem
4- Design a route to correct the root cause of the problem
5- Do what is necessary
Accepting the process leads to inevitable success. No matter what it is you want to do, as long as you are consistent, push and encourage yourself to improve, it is unavoidable with the right system to get the results you want. When you accept this, you’ll be able to fully enjoy and appreciate the journey. When you stop worrying about timing, whens, hows, and ifs and have faith in what you have created. Love the system, love the process, and find success
on your own terms.
Peace, love and Power
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