How To Develop My System

Well, we've talked about the importance of a system and how having a system pretty much changes you from being an amateur to a professional. But let's talk about how in the world do I develop my own system? Because people are different. And you're always, how am I going to develop my system? So how are you going to do that? Well, there's ways you can do it, and here's some keys. First of all, you got to start with lots of activity. You got to start doing it. You got to get familiar with things. You got to see how you do things. Until you do this step. This is like, I want to build a fire. Well, you got to rub some sticks together. You got to get into it. You've got to get familiar with the process. You've got to see how your body handles whatever the process is, how your, you know, your hands work, your arms work, your mind works. You know, what about it is easy, what's hard? So you've got to get. Because depending on what the nature of what it is that you're doing, you're gonna have. You're gonna fall into patterns. But what you're doing is you're looking for patterns. You're trying to identify your patterns, and your patterns are, what do you like? How do you like to do it the best way? What's the best way you like to do it? What also allows you to do it the fastest? How you can do it without thinking, how could. How. How can you be the most productive if you do it this way? It may be that everybody else does it this way, but when you do it the other way, not only you like it better, but you're much faster. You know, you get the most done. So that's what you want to look for. Because those are things that other people may find hard, you may find easy. And you're not interested in building a system for the world or system for somebody. You know, how am I going to build my system? And your system is all going to be about, how can you do it? Put something. Let's just look at what a system does. A system is like, how can you get something done efficiently with automatically, where you don't have to think about it with the least wear and tear, the least effort and thought on your part. You don't want some complicated thing you can't remember. Let me get my MANUAL and page 387 of my system for doing this. You want something that pops into your mind, so you want to get it where you can be efficient, you can be Automatic. You can, you can do it without it taking a lot out of you so you can move to the next phase of it with the most energy. And this will make you. Since you like this way, you're efficient this way you're going to be more energized teaching this way of doing it to somebody else. Now, once you teach them how to do whatever it is you're doing, they may evolve and start doing it different on their own in a way that suits them. But this allows you. By having your system down, you can teach them a system for doing it as quickly as possible. Make sure you don't miss any key parts, because you just naturally do it that way. You naturally remember it, and then you've done your job, you've taught them. Then it's up to them if they want to make an adjustment. That's what you're looking for in a system, and there's just no way of finding it unless you do lots of activity. Not doing lots of activity because someone's beating over your head and saying, get out there, lead by example. Do the work. No, you're doing it because, well, you want to get a lot done. You want to get started, but you want to get a feel for the activity and see how you can compress time frame. See, that's what the. That's what these things are all about. It's compressing time frames. That's what systems allow you to do. And not just compress time frames to get it done and throw it out, but get it done right in the shortest period of time. Now what do you do from that? You get the activity done. You recognize your patterns, and then you're starting to put sequences together. You don't have to have the whole thing at once, but start putting steps together. Start putting sequences together, steps together. You know, we do these two things at once, and then it kind of figured that step out, but then we do these two steps. So you start to, step by step, put your. Write it down. You want to be writing this stuff down because that takes the guesswork out of it. You don't have to remember things. You say, well, I tried it that way, I tried it this way. This way worked best. Now then you want to make adjustments. You're constantly adjusting because you might have a theory. You might say, we'll put these sequences together. Eventually. These are like links in a chain. You're going to fill out all, all of the steps. You'll have a system for doing it. The best way will show up. It could be that you have a step in there that you're not that happy with, but at least it's the best you've got for now. But as you do it over and over and over, or you may look and watch somebody else doing something or hear how they do it, then you make an adjustment and you can improve each link in the chain. Because what a system is, is like a chain. It's a system of one chain leading to another to get from here over there. It links start to finish and kind of an automated process. So you'll continue to make you start putting the sequences together. And then as you get to the point where there's no really way you like to do it, you just get the best possible one and might be this one in here. It's not. You don't really love it, but you know that we're going to do it that way until something better comes along. Then you adjust it. Now you got one you like. And so no one's saying that you have to have a perfect system when you start. And another thing that you can do on to improve this thing, and you want to get to this stage, you want to get into it before you do this next step too much, after you get a feel for it and you're kind of rolling along yourself, that's when you can start modeling and paying modeling, copying pieces from people who are at the top, the top performers, the top producers, you know, the best and brightest. Now the people who are the super successful at it, whatever it is. It could be house cleaning. There are people that are superstars at house cleaning. Could be disciplining your kids. I mean, you have a system for disciplining your kids. Getting your kids to bed at night, getting them off to school in the morning. And if you have any ideas about how to do that, how about these nannies you see on tv? I mean, they, they have little systems, routines. You see them use it at each little house full of hellions. They go to from one week to the next. They've got patterns of how they deal with it. Same thing with the dog whisperer, how he handles the dogs. When the dog does this, when the dog does that, he's got things, you know, it's like, who's the big dog here, you know, who's the main dog? Or, you know, they, they rebel, you know, they go in the walk. He's got his systems for that. So you want to get familiar with it, you want to get into your own pattern. But then, see, this gives you the framework. What I Like about doing this first, this gives you the framework of understanding frame. It kind of puts these pieces into your mind so that when you see this one, you can go, aha. Now I see how he does it. I see some of the missing links. I'm going to put that in there, or I'm going to take these whole things here and I'm going to do that different because this is where my problem was, you know, this is where inefficiency was. So you can model and copy from those guys like that. And the goal at all times as you improve this in your system is to make it simpler, where you can get things done quicker and you can have more success. This keeps it. See, people that are constantly working on their system are the people who stay fresh, they stay energized. The people that are doing the same old thing, the same old ways year after year after year are the people that are dead, dull, disillusioned and worn out. And so this is how you keep yourself constantly growing. You stay fresh. When you're constantly adjusting and improving, you're constantly perfecting your system. The system that, you know, we used to joke about it in the business. You know, you talk to somebody and they came in and they showed you their system for building an organization or doing a school or for training or whatever, and talk to them a month or two later. And they were probably doing something not totally, completely different, but a lot different. Because each month, people at the top are getting new insights and making more and more adjustments. They're every day making little refinements and improvements. And if you're always going to grow by copying somebody else, this is why it's good for you to get started on your own before you start modeling other people. Because you want to have the basic fundamental thing yourself. You don't want to. When you see model someone else, you want to add in adjustments. You don't want to throw out everything you've got and copy, because what worked for someone else won't work for you. But by refining this thing, it keeps you. What do you refine? You refine procedures. What are the steps? What are the. You know, if it's a presentation, now you say presentation. This is not in sales. Well, a presentation can be to your child or to your student or to your dog. How are you going to communicate what you want them to do and the process? What goes first? What comes second? What's the sequencing of this thing? How much time do you spend on it? You constantly find that thing because again, you're working on trying to get it simpler, quicker and faster. And this is what makes it more interesting for you. You're trying to take the complication out of it. And if you want to see if you're in a competitive environment, if you're competing, you cannot do things the same way that you did in the past. And here's why. You can't do it over and over and over again. Because if you're not on top, you won't move up. You've got to continue to improve so you can get more done, so you can move up. And if you do the same things in a competitive environment over and over again, you're going to get the same results. So you've got to keep refining and improving so you can move up. The other thing is, if you are on top, let's say you're the best and brightest, you're number one. If you, you can't do things the same way because they'll catch you, people will copy what you're doing, they'll do a little bit more and they'll catch you. And so that's why they say it's as hard to stay on top as it is to get on top, because you've got to continue to keep improving. Once you get on top, the natural thing is to assume that you're better than everybody else. You're better, smarter, prettier, and you know, you're perfect and you don't need to improve anymore. But hey, you really need to improve because now everybody else is going to see what you're doing, they're going to copy it, and they may be better at doing what you're doing than you are. So now you got to find ways that gives you competitive edge to stay in front of them. You want an example of that? Apple, big deal, all of their profits. IPhone. More profits from iPhone than Microsoft makes on all of their stuff. But guess what happens? Here's the problem of flying the ointment. There is Samsung. Samsung's got something looks just like iPhone, except it's a little bit bigger. They're number two, trying to move up. You know, the big thing with iPhone is they've got their Retina display. Unbelievable. You can't believe Samsung is working with a consortium. They're working on something that's got a, even a little bit higher resolution than even the Retina display. So pretty soon iPhone won't have that. If they stay, if they, you know, if they keep doing the things the same way, they can improve their display. They got to improve everything, even now the Samsung ads on tv, they're, you know, making fun of the iPhone features and saying, you know, we've already got that beat. So this, you see this at the big levels. You see it, you know, at your level, at all levels. People are constantly improving their products, their systems, how they do things because they want to compete. And even if you're not in a competitive environment, you want to stay fresh, you want to stay excited, you want to stay energized about all of these things to keep getting them done. And so they don't start taking more and more time. Hopefully that helps you, gives you some ideas on developing a system of your own.