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Improving Systems and Habits

Using systems and habits to improve your life is a proven method to succeed. It requires seeing the work as a system and then adjusting your thoughts and behaviors to be able to take advantage of your opportunities in life.

Stay simple and systematic to achieve your goals

Scott Miker

Simplicity is the key for companies to transform from good to great but it also is the key for us to transform from good to great individually.  But simplicity isn’t enough to drive us towards our goals.  It helps us have a clear understanding of steps and direction but that can easily lead to poor decisions and a misunderstanding of simplicity versus laziness.  

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Don’t get stopped

Scott Miker

Have you made a great stride towards a goal and reached it but then quickly lost the benefit of reaching that goal?  There are many times that I have set a hard Outcome Goal and reached it.  But too often it wouldn’t take me long to fall back to my old systems and habits.  Once the drive was gone, because I already reached my goal, I just couldn’t get enough motivation to keep going.

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Focus on the process not the event

Scott Miker

Most people view life as a series of life-changing events or a number of rites of passage.  It often seems like everything is stable and these unique experiences are the reasons why we end up where we are in life.  It often feels like we cruise along and then these magical moments propel us in a new exciting direction. 

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Ambition or Patience

Scott Miker

The reality is that ambition is helpful, up to a point.  Then it is a combination of patience and ambition which will truly help you succeed.  Burning out too quickly is just as common as waiting without knowing what you are waiting for.  

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Systems and habits work reduces our defensiveness

Scott Miker

Most people have a hard time taking criticism.  Viewed as an attack on our character, we quickly find arguments and points proving the criticism is inaccurate.  Being able to learn and grow from feedback is important but this defensiveness can easily get in the way.

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Adversity Breeds Resilience

Scott Miker

As humans we are preprogrammed to avoid pain and attract pleasure.  It is hardwired into us and helped us survive and evolve over the years.  But avoidance of pleasure isn’t always the best.  Character is built through difficulty.  Mistakes teach us important lessons.  Our failure may be painful but we can come away a better, wiser person.

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Possible to Probable

Scott Miker

Don't get too blinded by what is possible.  Anything is possible but to become probable you must work on developing the systems and habits to reach your goal.  

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Time alone doesn’t change things

Scott Miker

There is a famous quote by Andy Warhol where he says “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”  I think this is a powerful quote that empowers us to take charge of our lives.  

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Persistence or Flexibility?

Scott Miker

There are pros and cons to every decision yet too often advance confidently in one specific direction.  Learn to relax and understand yourself before making the choice of action because there is always something positive and something negative in that choice.

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The deceiving truth about habits and systems

Scott Miker

In our lives we tend to do the same thing that the media does.  We disregard the years and years of habit, the months of specific training and try to understand things from the event or performance perspective.  But the reality is that long before the action, mission, game, meeting, presentation etc. our paths were being developed and our skills honed.

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Importance of Simplicity

Scott Miker

Steve Jobs once commented on simplicity and said “that’s been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity.  Simple can be harder than complex.  You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.  But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

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Success is a habit

Scott Miker

Success is based off of our actions and behaviors.  More importantly, success reflects our repeated response to various situations.  What do you repeatedly do?

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Are habits stopping you from reaching your true potential? 3 Ways Habits Can Help Your Chances of Success

Scott Miker

Habits control much of our lives without our direct awareness.  Most people respond to adversity in a similar way regardless of whether or not they realize it.  We all rely on set habits that dictate how to respond to a given situation, how to view the world, and how to prepare for success.  Yet most people seem to discount the effect that habits have on our success.

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Our Systems Are Not Confined

Scott Miker

The systems and habits in our lives tend to bleed over into other areas of our lives.  Success in one area usually positively impacts another but failure in one area could bring a devastating effect on other areas.  

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