Let’s take some time and discuss the matter of conscious, self-willed, and performed change, in the context of optimizing decision criteria.

You’ve read before the question that optimizing asks:

“What are the highest qualitative possibilities for this output, given the resources available and the specific criteria being applied? Is this the best we can do?”

Everything holds that we have said before, but there are additional — Continue reading this post

Sufficing is one of the more common strategies we use in making decisions but… it’s a tricky beast.

Sufficing used wisely and consciously to balance a limited budget, assigning a hierarchy of criteria to parts of a project or task, or finding that despite your very best efforts the Universe has decided that you need a big pile of “oh my stars!” and you need to re-arrange your crafty and finely laid plans. — Continue reading this post

A key set of criteria in a decision strategy is how we create criteria and then matches or adjusts the criteria for saying
“That’s it. It is finished.”

We are speaking of sufficing and optimizing.

Sufficing asks: “What is the minimum acceptable necessary and SUFFICIENT qualities for an output that allows me to say ‘we’re done here’?”

Sufficing is often used in budgeting processes, and when resources are — Continue reading this post

Now that we have begun working with the bigger sections and pieces of creating a human goal-seeking system of habits, let’s look into creating new patterns from the other side – the smaller components.

As a rule of thumb:

When working on a system – whether it’s goals and visions, changing habits, or something else – start from the biggest pieces and the most important values you want to work on, clearly define the boundaries and parameters, then work your way down your list of priorities. — Continue reading this post

Let’s continue with the weekly planning process or 3-3-3 planning.

In the last post, we covered the monthly part of the planning process. This sets the medium term direction and duration for our planning.

It is the context for the main driver of ensuring we are moving in the right direction – the weekly planning process.

We started by asking “THE BIG QUESTION”:

“What do I want this month to be about?”

Then we chose three major outputs and broke them down into — Continue reading this post