I was having a chat with my Sister today (yes, we do speak at times), about some ‘deep’ stuff. Over the years we were both aware of a large number of people who were clearly ‘not in control’ of their lives. Now, by this I don’t mean deranged or in some way ‘crazy’ but more, things happened TO them - a lot!

There’s no plan, method or system to what they’re doing and certainly no understanding of why they don’t get what they want. These people are often frustrated at all the barriers and problems that keep arising and they just never seem to get traction. You can often pick these types of people quite easily as they tend to blame and avoid responsibility.

As my Sister and I talked a bit more we realized that people who had life happening TO them never seemed to ask the ‘deeper’ questions. You know the one’s - the questions about ’causes’ rather than the ‘end results’. I mean, there is just so much going on ‘underneath the surface’ to produce all those different positive and negative results in our lives.

The human body is an excellent example of an amazing system that is totally reliant on automation. Our physical survival is dependent on involuntary reflexes that we don’t need to think about (and just as well!), like breathing, fighting infection, swallowing, etc. It’s a very simple picture, if we didn’t have our physiological systems running with such unconscious, automatic precision, we would be dead or very different creatures.

Of course, the human body and life are no different to a business in that they are groupings of complicated systems and processes that produce results. Likewise, there are severe limitations in merely surviving and nothing else. It seems to me that the point to life is to become increasingly conscious of the huge number of ’causes’ that can (and need to), be changed to produce the results that we want in our lives, businesses, families etc.

Video is a tool that can be used on any area of our lives to improve, learn, and communicate more accurately and realistically. By knowing and understanding the exact causes of your results you can then try new things and improve your systems and processes to achieve positive consistency, what I term ‘posistency’ (I love making up words!). It’s then a simple matter of recording the optimized systems, processes and procedures using video and sharing them so that everyone can benefit!

Feel free to make any comments that you like.

Jason

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