I saw a phrase the other day that really jumped out at me:
“You don’t rise to the level of your goals”
“You fall to the level of your systems”
That pretty much sums up a lot of what I talk about.
Planning. Structure. The boring stuff that actually works.
Turning chaos into something you can actually stick to.
We tell ourselves this time will be different.
Telling ourselves “I know what I need to do, I just need to do it”.
If we’re approaching it in the same way as before….
With the same level of structure, planning and systems….
Then it will go the same way as it did before.
Good to start with.
Go backwards longer term.
Einstein supposedly said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” (he probably didn’t, but that doesn’t stop it being a good quote).
So, if we’re not going to RISE to the level of our goals…………
If we are going to fall to the level of our systems……….
Then lets make it so our systems make it harder to fail than to follow through.
Much love,
Jon ‘SINK’ Hall
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