Growth Edge

Wherever life is calling you forth in a new way, you are at your growth?edge.?Take this example:

The word has gotten around that you provide great service, so now prospects are calling you even as you are still doing the paperwork for existing clients. Your system is overloaded, and it’s great; so, you need to build a more efficient system, or you need to hire an assistant, or do something to adjust to the new influx. When you are on your growth edge, there’s chaos, upset, fear; and…opportunity to expand capacity.

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1. Often, we back away when we hit our growth edge, seeking a return to the status quo, familiarity, and ease.?Especially when it comes to personal growth.
2. If you, your life, your business, your family, or community is not set up as a self-correcting system, then things will fall apart.

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I believe that the Founding Fathers, for example—though they were imperfect—succeeded in creating a system of governance that can and will sustain the challenges it currently faces.

What are the essential elements of a self-correcting system?

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A self-correcting system must have parts. Your eyes, for example, can see if you are drifting off the road.?Without a?part to?tell the system it's getting off?course,?self-correction is impossible. To correct course, some part of the system must be able to see the relation between the system and?its goal.?

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A self-correcting system also needs communication among its parts. Imagine you were sitting in a moving vehicle, and you saw that the vehicle (with you in it) was drifting off the road. If (for some reason, say, you were paralyzed, or on ketamine) your eyes could not inform your limbs of the need to alter course, the system could not correct itself.

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Similarly, if the different departments of a company don’t sit in the same meetings or share reports or structures, then, for example,?the customer service department won’t be able to tell the salespeople about important issues that they need to understand in order to sell the product; and—vice versa—the sales department won’t communicate important matters that the customer service department needs to understand in order to support customers.

A self-correcting system needs not only a part which is able to see the relation between the system and its course,?it also needs communication/accountability (with a measure of candor and humility) among its parts.?

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Lastly, for a system to self-correct, there needs to be a purpose, a common goal or shared norm, with respect to which the systems parts agree to correct course when need be. An economic system in which each part is merely out to increase its own wealth, will either break down (for lack of a common goal), or will require that its parts?submit to regulation based on shared goals like growing the GDP, stabilizing prices, or increasing employment.

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Rather than shying away from your growth edge, stay wide awake in the chaos and challenge of it all; make yours(elf) a self-correcting system, so you benefit and expand your capacities through the tough time.

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A self-correcting system must:??have parts, communication among its parts, and a unifying purpose, common goal, or shared norm.

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Postscript: a coach serves as a “part” of you; s/he communicates with the other parts (your ambition, your risk adversity, your schedule, your health, etc.) regarding drift/alignment with respect to your stated goals. A coach makes you a self-correcting system.

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Mark your calendar: Wednesday February 9th?at 11a PT I'm holding a?workshop on YOUR GROWTH EDGE and PLAY. In this workshop, you will discover the importance of play when facing your growth edge, and how to use play as an?adult to expand your capacity for life.

To attend, go to?the M&M Home page (Money, Real Estate & More ), click on “2022 Brand New Feature: M&M Coach’s Corner” in the green band at the top. It will take you to this page (https://moreandmorenetwork.com/coachs-corner/ ), where you can learn more and register for this (free!)?event. (Thank you, all who attempted to attend?January's workshop; please know we have repaired all the links for February's event.)?Please share this invitation!

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Yours,?

Martin Kettelhut, PhD

ListeningIsTheKey.com

303 747 4449

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