The Butterfly Effect determines our reality: if we learn to know it we can take back control of our life.
"Who I am today is the result of the choices I made yesterday."
E. Roosevelt.
Apparently there is a particular harmony between the Personal growth and Butterflies: maybe it's because many of us feel like caterpillars, and are waiting for nothing more than to get rid of their cocoons and soar lightly. Or maybe it's just a coincidence; the fact is that, after having told you about the story of the butterfly (and the importance of facing difficulties), today I would like to talk to you aboutButterfly Effect, also known as The Butterfly Effect.
Oh!!! Finally a post about the babe! And go André! I know him all right Butterfly Effect: last year newspapers and television news talked about it for a month. Long live the Belen butterfly!
No, no butterflies tattooed in suspicious areas: today we will talk about chaos theory, daily choices and long-term consequences; but above all we will talk about how you can regain control of your existence. Who knows, maybe reading this simple post could have unexpected effects on your life ... ;-)
What is the Butterfly Effect
"It is said that the slightest flapping of a butterfly's wings is capable of causing a hurricane on the other side of the world."
The Butterfly Effect.
The 2004 science fiction film entitled “The Butterfly Effect“ opened with this quote. Mediocre movie, but very interesting idea. The film is in fact inspired by what is known in science as Butterfly Effect: the physical principle, attributable to the Chaos Theory, which describes how "small variations in the initial conditions, can produce large variations in the long-term behavior of a physical system" (cit. Wikipedia).
Listen André to me these scientific pipponi bore me: I realized that if I eat beans for lunch I could trigger a hurricane in the United States, but it is not clear to me what the hell this has to do with my Personal Growth!
We can compare our life to a physical system to be investigated and (possibly) improved: at this point we should ask ourselves what those are small variations under initial conditions, which are capable of producing large long-term effects. I got an idea ... would you like to read it together? ;-)
Your life is the sum of your choices
By applying the Butterfly Effect to our life, those little variations are none other than ours daily choices. In his book "1 million dollar habits", Brian Tracy explained this concept very ... effectively:
“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or who you will be in the future, is up to you. Your current life is the sum of your choices, decisions and actions made up to this point. You can shape your future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and with the things you want to accomplish in your life. "
Personally, I've begun to see small everyday choices like railway exchanges of some country station. In most cases, these peripheral "exchanges" are never lined up, yet they can have a truly radical impact on our "journey". If we do not pay due attention to the choices we make every day, we could easily find ourselves on the wrong track: at the beginning we would not even notice it, the different tracks in fact run parallel for kilometers and kilometers, but with the passing of the weeks, months and years we would find ourselves in a completely different "station" from the one we had planned at the beginning of our journey, without knowing why.
None of us deliberately choose a ticket for the "Station of Failure", yet we persist in neglecting all those "railway exchanges" that we encounter during the journey, and so ...
- We choose to always wake up at the last minute, cursing our alarm clock, instead of savoring the magic of dawn through thesacred hour.
- We choose to start the day by filling our lungs with tar and nicotine, instead of regaining our energy with a session of breathwalking.
- We choose to throw our days in the ces ... to chasing the notifications of WhatsApp, Facebook and Email, instead of respecting the secret of the first hour.
- We choose to fill our working days with many small urgent but completely useless activities, instead of applying the vacuum strategy, focusing on those few really important activities.
- We choose to study for our exams as if we were reading the Gazzetta dello Sport at the bar downstairs, instead of preparing ourselves with a effective study method.
- We choose to jeopardize our financial freedom, borrowing to buy yet another technological gadget, instead of respecting the 3 rules of Monopoly.
- We choose to lobotomize our brains in front of the television for 1.460 hours a year instead of read 1 book a week.
- We choose to get high every weekend chasing an obsessive pleasure that consumes us, instead of pursuing the true happiness.
But of all the wrong choices we can make, of all the butterfly wing beats that can trigger a hurricane in our life, the worst choice we can make is to choose not to choose.
Conclusions
To conclude, no personal growth stratagems with an attractive name: in the list above you will find as many as you want. I just want this post to help you reflect: onButterfly Effect and how even the smallest variations can have enormous consequences (for better or for worse); on railway exchanges that you meet every day along your journey; on choices that you will make this week, choices that can bring you closer to your dreams or relegate them permanently to a drawer to get mold. The choice is yours.
