A good indication of what is going on in a person’s mind can be found by looking at their everyday surroundings and environment. I recently found photos of our older brother’s refrigerator that we took when we visited him. Take a look at it:
That just shows me what was on his mind for the last few years. He has his Phd now and recently found a 6-six figure income job! He probably mastered those equations to get his Phd and placing them on his fridge helped.
Here is a photo taken of our refrigerator a few months ago and some books
Writing down goals and placing them where you see them everyday helps you focus your energy and thoughts on achieving them.
Having been schooled for most of our lives and Engineering being engrained into our heads through high school and College, our minds are wired to solve problems by constantly thinking about them until we actually do. Solving the problem is actually easy to do. The hard part is finding the root cause thats causing the problem and then maning up to do what it takes to solve it. We were the type of kids in school that talked about exam questions after the tests had been taken hours and even days before. We actually memorized problems and tried to figure out if we put the right answers on the papers. Our friends back then thought we were nuts for doing that.
People we talk to have just said to let the loss or setback go and just move on. Our progress for a comeback is really really bad because we did not let go of it yet and can not until we go back and find the root of the problem – its just in our nature. It is also a lesson that was just meant to be learned. Yea people say diverisfy, diverisfy, diverisfy, but that is not the root cause that led to our setback. If one is to keep asking WHY? he can see it is not the cause of the loss or setback. It is good advice though. After days of thinking and asking the question WHY? we have come to see the major flaws in how we thought, acted, in our systems, and in our business. The next step is to solve these problems on our existing systems and carry them through to future ones.
Below is an illustration of how asking the question WHY can help you find the root cause of your problems. It is usually asking 5 whys but you can do more or less to get to the root of your problem. Take care in not going too far because God, religion, pursuit of happiness, and existance and purpose will probably be mentioned or appear. Then you got a whole new set of questions.
