I believe that the ability to manage and control all the systems in our lives as efficiently and effectively as possible, with as little pain as possible, is one of the essential elements for success in life.
For example, when we have a health problem, we have to scrutinize and analyze the health system of our lives, find out where the problem lies, and try to find solutions to fix it. Similarly, when we have financial problems, we should analyze our money management system, look for the reasons that hinder the proper management and spending of our money, and then try to find solutions to fix it.
I realized that when our life systems work well, our lives go well, and everything is fine, but the loss of one system will somehow cause the failure of other systems. As the matter can be likened to the gears in a machine, the breaking of one of which leads to sabotage and the failure of the entire machine.
I noticed this while writing my latest guide on getting just five hours of sleep and feeling good. Sleep is a subsystem that can help us get a good night's sleep with the proper adjustments and provide us with more energy throughout the day, ultimately allowing us to sleep less and invest the remaining time in our other tasks.
We just have to look at sleep as a whole and then break it down and modify the wrong parts of it. When I started thinking about other areas of life, I quickly realized that we could do this with almost all the other systems in our lives.
We are but a system of habits if we think about it well. Most of our lives are represented by things we do day after day without much change, and this may make us as humans look tedious. However, it is a good thing because it keeps our lives in order and protects us from stress and anxiety.
We know almost what we will do next week: where we will celebrate next Christmas, when we will go on vacation and work or eat dinner, when we should start studying, and many other things. Therefore, it will make sense to put our systems in the best condition and improve all aspects of our lives so that things go for our benefit in all the ways that we will live our lives this way.
Systems in our lives
The first thing to do is to check and evaluate all the systems in our lives in the present moment. The simplest way to evaluate them is to give each a quick and intuitive mark out of 10, so we rely on intuition. Each mark expresses our opinion on how well each system is working. I will give you a list of some systems, and you can add more to them and give each of them a mark out of 10:
- Health
- Profession
- Marriage and your relationship with your partner.
- Relationships with your children.
- Money and expenses.
- Your goals in life.
- Your friendships and relationships with others.
- Sleeping.
- Diet.
- The spiritual side.
- Fun and hobbies.
Thus, the list I have prepared above provides us with an illustrative visual representation of the different systems in our lives that may need to be modified. I will give an example of the various life systems and how to evaluate them.
For example, a person's diet may not be at its best, which means it's time to look at their food and figure out why they only score 6 out of 10 on a diet, and then carefully examine their diets to find subsystems within them to modify them as much as possible.
Searching for subsystems
When we realize that something is wrong with one of the systems in our lives, we can focus on it and examine it very carefully to find out why it failed and seek to fix it. Let's go back to the example above related to diet. We can ask several questions about the food eaten, look at the subsystems within that system, and start making the necessary adjustments. It will be a matter of experimentation and modification until we can correct that specific system and continue to modify it until it reaches perfection.
We may find two or three subsystems working in cooperation with each other to affect the overall harmony of the whole system. We may think our diet is not good and continue to gain weight no matter how much we reduce the amount of food eaten. Still, the problem is eating late at night and only a little during the day. This means that the body, in this case, stores fat during the day and does not consume or burn it because of its belief that we do not eat enough food. This leads to weight gain and burns some fat at night, but not enough to get rid of the weight gained during the day because of the body's inability to spend the energy necessary to burn fat during sleep compared to the day.
In conclusion
When we examine all the systems in our lives and analyze them carefully to explore the subsystems within them, we can control the things that should be modified to improve the quality of life we live in general. I hope I have provided what is useful to you in this brief overview of the different life systems so that we can improve and develop our lives.
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