This time about the phenomenon of “breaking the environment” and whether it’s worth doing this at all in pursuit of your goals. And in the first part you read about the discrepancy between the chosen goals and the needs that you want to “feed” with these goals. If you haven’t read it yet, read it on my page in the appropriate section. And now about the chiselling of the environment. I will be guided by a systems approach and the principles of functioning of large open systems. Also, I’ll steal a little from the Gestalt approach so that it’s not boring. So, sometimes it happens that our colossal efforts to achieve something, aimed at only one area of ​​our life, do not bring anything or only make us worse. The result, of course, is also zero. We fight this way and that, but it’s all in vain. Our efforts are constant and more and more intense, but in the end there is no result, loss of strength, disappointment and depression. We usually hammer hard and at one point. At the same time, we ignore what is happening or not happening around us. In other words, we ignore whether the environment responds to our efforts or does not respond. Now there will be a little “magic” that will either need to be taken “on faith” or tested experimentally.) We usually do not give the environment time for it to respond to our intervention. We hammer and hammer. As a good rule of thumb, the response time of the environment is plus or minus 6 months. For example, they carried out some kind of intervention and observed for six months how it affected you and your living space. Nothing bad happened or some pleasant things began - we continue to intervene. It somehow didn’t feel good or we started getting sick in different places, quarreling with others more than usual, getting tired or emotionally depressed - the interventions didn’t work for the future and we need to go back to the original one to reconsider the content of the “intervention”. This is not only about our internal state, but also about the external reactions of the environment - stock market crashes, crises of social systems, some problems among relatives and friends that require our indispensable participation and distract us from the fulfillment of our dreams and goals. In general, there is a lot here. In any case, the “field” reacts to what happens to us and in us. This is about checking whether the tools we have selected to meet our needs are correct or incorrect. When we ignore the signals of the environment and our body, continuing to mercilessly hammer away at both, we are not in contact with either. What to do? Oddly enough, sometimes very small changes on several fronts of our lives are enough for some kind of global change in the quality of life to begin. The principle of snowball growth will help us. In general, here are some real examples of small changes leading to big ones. An example for people prone to autumn blues and depression. It has been tested and proven that depression does not occur or its experience becomes milder and less intense if, starting from September-October, you increase your sleep time by at least two hours. Sometimes even forcibly. We don’t deal with the content of depression, but we change something small in the area of ​​bodily comfort and the results are obvious. An example for athletes. This is a real story. For a very long time, the England cycling team was at the very bottom. What they did not do in order to somehow get out of this hole. Changes related to training intensity, training time, etc. Things didn't move forward. As a result, a team of experts from a variety of fields was assembled at a great expense. They drew up a program of changes, which included mainly changes in the quality of sports and casual clothing for cyclists, the level of temperature for ventilation of the premises where the cycling team lives and trains, the quality of bedding and accessories for sleeping and relaxation, sports equipment, even towels, variety and quality of nutrition, changes in the color scheme of everything that surrounds athletes during.