Chapter 32 Deal Killers and the Main Machine The Main Machine is you. You’re a primary system, an enclosed entity made up of numerous spinning wheels, all contributing to the singular purpose of that entity, this is, to accomplish a goal. You’re precisely engineered, perfectly equipped to choose objectives and then adjust your output in order […]
Parenting is a Job: The Systems Mindset Approach
August 15, 2017
Note: Readership of this blog stretches to over 150 countries and as we prepared to post this particular essay I realized the message is most applicable to parents in the western world…parents who have the time and money to over-complicate things. In much of the developing world where basic survival is the challenge, parents will viscerally understand this mechanical sensibility because […]
Chapter 31 Your Mind Can Be a Bad Neighborhood Thinking is a system, and in the down times it can be a scary thing to endure. When uncontrolled negative thoughts start to cycle one after the other, it’s like finding yourself in a bad neighborhood, knowing for sure that your best bet is to quickly get […]
Chapter 30 Prime time Prime time has two components, Biological Prime Time (BPT) and Mechanical Prime Time (MPT). The two have little in common, but they go together well. BPT is the period of the day when you’re the most energized, a stretch of time lasting six to eight hours in any twenty-four-hour period. Like many […]
Chapter 29 Make Point of Sale an Obsession The POS term was coined in the retail industry and it encapsulates the goal of getting the wheels rolling now, in the right direction, and at high speed. And the term insinuates the converse: the elimination of wheels that are rolling in the wrong direction. But there’s more […]
Chapter 28 Texting Isn’t Enough Let’s poke a hole in Ockham’s Law, that the simplest solution is usually the correct solution. More and more, general one-on-one communication is devolving into the texting mentality: it’s too short and concise, too interrupting. Let’s join together to fight this slide. So what is the Ockham’s Law exception? It’s this: […]
Chapter 27 Automate, Delegate, Delete Use the title of this chapter as the filter for many of the decisions you make, especially at work. If you’re going to quickly get out of the middle of things and gain a truckload of personal control, you must be sure you’re headed in a single direction, not helter-skelter, all […]
Chapter 26 Clustering: Guilt Free and with a Calm Mind Note: The following biographical chapter explains why I don’t 1-2-3 prioritize the important component systems of my life. An advanced Systems Mindset protocol, it will be instantly useful no matter your current state of fire-killing. The lament is incessant: Day in and day out we quietly […]
Chapter 25 We Are Not All One The “we’re all one” mantra is sixties drivel—the psychedelic-induced notion that we’re all connected and therefore need to act that way. The declaration, more precisely translated, suggests that we all need to agree to the same truth and then act the same way about it. Well, I actually do […]
Chapter 24 Semantics Matter: Making Your Machines Visible Your real-time vocabulary matters. Choose the right words—what you say overtly and what you say in your head—to keep yourself on track. Because a work, health, or relationship system can’t be physically touched doesn’t mean it’s not there. But this system invisibility is why people don’t pay attention […]
