Weight Weight Just Love Me – Autopoietic Systems – Day 10
Michelle LaBrosse, CCPM, PMP, PMI-ACP, RYT
My dietitian Kate has been extolling the virtues of simplicity with respect to how I nourish myself. She knows I like to make things all intricate and complicated as well that is fun for me. But then I got to thinking about my experience of autopoietic systems. Autopoietic is from the term “autopoiesis” – it means a system that creates and maintains itself. All systems in nature are autopoietic as they create and maintain themselves. For anything to be self perpetuating it needs to be an autopoietic system.
So as I contemplate how to love myself more, I am considering what type of autopoietic system needs to be in place to make this the more natural state of affairs? Typically when I create this concept in the business realm, I look at what core value can we self organize around. For example my main business – Cheetah Learning – we have self organized around the value “your success is my success.” Every system in the company supports this core value.
Loving myself more – the core value – is well loving myself more. Does it have to be anymore complicated than that? Is this a job that is ever done anyhow? This 66 day challenge is starting to remind me of the time in 2008 when after reading AJ Jacob’s book “A Year of Living Biblically,” I wanted to try something different and committed to being a bodhisattva for a year. And once into it realized, once I committed to this path, I would always be a bodhisattva (where I achieve enlightenment solely for the benefit of others). I am now realizing, this challenge is part of that path.
Now that I am looking at this effort through the lens of an autopoietic system – lets see what elements of the system are created by self organizing around the core value of “loving myself more.” I will start sharing what I notice in subsequent posts.
Kate‘s comment: Great idea to make a self-perpetuating system of positive thinking – definitely powerful and towards a great mindset.