Systems Check

6th May 2024

“When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that… if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one’s whole being, is that you alone control nothing. To be able to put yourself in tune or rhythm with the forces beyond, which are the truly operative ones, that is the task — and the solution, if we can speak of “solutions.”

Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

Since we began this ‘Life as a Project’, at the start of April, one monthly cycle is now complete – the moon has travelled completely around the Earth – (see ‘Your Life as a Project’ https://acping.substack.com/p/your-life-as-a-project?r=15zae )

‘Holy crap!’ you might think – that went fast  - yikes!

Time to do a Systems Check – and remember what we are trying to do here is to create sustainable change – noting that if we ha…