These little emails have the power to change your life. You can ignore them. You can breeze through them. Or you can decide to really slow down and be bold. My first coach, a great coach he is, Stephen McGhee, used to say: Go through it, not to it. Now’s your chance.
Everything laid out so far has been about finding your most important change. The most important thing you want to create. And getting clear and committed to doing what it takes. That includes going about it in an entirely new way.
Along the way, I’ve shared stories and made points intended to teach you powerful ways of thinking about change. Ways to hold change inside yourself. It’s all part of developing your system for change. That system becomes a “template” that you can use to create change any time you want. For anything you want to create.
Read The Power of Systems, by Steve Chandler and Trevor Timbeck. The thrust of the book is that if you aren’t getting the results you want, then it’s one of two things.
You aren’t following the system that you have. Or,
You need to adjust your system.
Mind blowing in its simplicity. Nothing really new, and brilliant.
People tell me from time to time, my daughter said this just yesterday: “You’re very disciplined”. That’s not the point. I think of it this way. If someone asked me to create an oil painting and gave me 30 days to do it. Well, I’d hate to see both the process and the outcome. Discipline is not the thing that would get me a masterpiece.
If you gave me a paint by numbers kit, on the other hand. And instructed me to color in 40 little spaces every day. That I could do. I’d have a system. A part of that would be having a clear agreement with myself. And having a practiced way of being in integrity with my agreements. If there were 1,200 little spaces on that template, I’d be 100% certain I’d have a completed oil painting right on the 30-day mark.
Once you’ve zeroed in on the thing you’re out to create, develop your system. Whatever it is. You don’t need anybody to develop it for you, and only you can do that anyway. Figure out the steps. Write your system down. Make it paint by numbers. Follow it with great integrity. This link will take you to a simple tool that might be useful – YOUR SYSTEM
You’re running the experiment. If you’re moving toward your objective, keep going. If you aren’t, then adjust. Because you have a system you can “touch and feel”, you’ve got something to adjust. You aren’t just wishing or floundering around.
And focus daily. The discipline is focus.
See you next week!
And, if you missed the four earlier emails in this series and would like them. Or if you’d like more guidance on any of this, shoot me an email.
