It’s early morning, and I’m thinking about success—improvement—making my life better and helping others find a better path forward.
If you want to bake a cake, you probably need a good recipe, right? But you also need good ingredients, the proper equipment, and a financial support system to pay for everything.
In other words, it’s more than the result of a cake; it’s the surrounding systems that help to make a result the best it can be.
We all face portions of life that need help.
Emotional trauma creates emotional responses through multiple generations. Procrastination takes you offline from meeting deadlines. Learning better response mechanisms creates better ways of handling troubled speech patterns. We need help understanding a pathway to improve our driving, working smarter, or living without the baggage that swaps joy for dishevelment.
Where do we find the tools?
What’s that old song say, “If I had a hammer… I’d hammer in the morning…” The answer would be to acquire a hammer. What kind of hammer do you need? It depends on what the hammer is to be used for. Maybe a little rock hammer or a 3-lb. sledge. Claw? Framing? Mallet? What does it need to be made of? It depends on what you are using the hammer to hammer.
Oh, dear. That’s overwhelming. I want a hammer to make a change. Surely, a hammer consultant at the hardware store will help me figure this out.
Notice something. You are starting to determine your needs, where to find the tool, and the questions that need to be considered before purchasing a hammer.
You are developing a formula that can be used to find the tools you need in life.
A few years ago, I found a social account that helped me learn how to respond to potentially challenging verbal confrontations. Jefferson Fisher. Click, and you will find a plethora of advice on how to handle difficult moments in life.
There are many purveyors of truth training that help you continue to improve even when you reach advanced years, as I have.
If you want to improve your spiritual life, there’s probably a formula for every personality that flits through life. But the foundation is sound. Find a plan to Read, Pray, Worship, Learn, Show, and Do unto others. A formula isn’t just about what I need and what others will see in me, but can I share it with my future self or understand my past?
Results-oriented. Process oriented. Setting your priorities!
In 2010, my blog started dealing with Algorithms of Life, and I often share Formulas that help me navigate the multiple phases of life’s challenges. What is the difference between an algorithm and a formula? AI tells me this is a proper comparison. [Click here for AI Results with a deeper explanation.]
A formula gives you the answer.
An algorithm tells you how to find the answer.
Using a formula often means someone else has done the hard work. Learning how to work in an algorithmic space means, at least to me, that I’m involved in finding the solutions I need.
Here’s my thought: Finding answers revolves around developing an algorithm for research rather than someone giving me a formula for calculating an answer. Think it Through.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
(Philippians 4:8-9 KJV)
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