"There is always room for positive change."
-Nick Kokonas
Adding something is always on the table. In all aspects of change, it can only be done by addition. When conceptualizing systems, we break their aspects down into units, we label those units, and we describe them. The label them. In visualizing structures, we allocate each a respective box in our flow chart or a slice of the pie. If that unit goes away, if the flow is efficiencized, the box gets removed, the flow gets smoother, or another piece of the pie gets bigger. Aspects of a system always come and go; however, we have to remember that we do not act on a systems level. We work and live within systems. As decision-making humans, trying to change or react to the systems, the way our actions can affect them often feels small. The overwhelming size and randomness of the universe can lead us to feel like, as much as we are in control of our thoughts and intentions, the things that affect our lives are just as often randomly pleasant as they are not.
This may not be true. There are a tremendous amount of factors in our lives that affect its systems, but whether it’s with the system of your family dynamic or your business positionings, we cannot ponder too long on the idea that any system’s performance will be equally if not more affected by random factors than the factors we control. Nervous people, people who are anxious, and people who are wonderers can fall subject to this trap. The “what if’s.” Although there are random factors that affect the systems we try to engage with and manipulate, an important line has to be drawn: the point of control. Knowing how much of your life you control is important, but what you do with that control is everything. Control is achieved through action, and action can only be additive. Even the act of not-acting is an act, and we can only tip the scales of whatever system we’re manipulating by positive action, a positive change of the things we control. It is always acceptable to add something because it is entirely what you are limited to in your reality. The most important question to ask yourself is if you’re adding the right thing. If it’s the wrong time, it’s the wrong thing. Try to add the right things. It’s the only thing you can do.
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