randori mind, control the chaos

“Broken Windows” is a social theory relating to urban vandalism. It states that if windows in a building are broken and not repaired, the community will believe that this vandalism is acceptable. However, the immediate repair of the broken windows and taking steps to prevent future incidents sends a message that vandalism is not acceptable and will not be tolerated.

The Broken Windows Theory may also be applied to address and resolve individual negative programming. We’re human and personal guilt is a powerful motivator! We’ll spend hours, even days, seeking to discover what we did wrong. We look to find and fix our broken windows, in this case our personal problems, those behaviors or aspirations that we identify as the source of a past failure. We’ll even go so far as to find a rock and make a broken window to fix, such as locking onto a thought as the reason why something didn’t happen. These generated reasons often begin with, “If I had…” or “If I hadn’t…”. The facts are that our personal windows aren’t broken; they simply need a good cleaning to see what is possible, and hear the sound of success. The cleaning process is done by reducing and eliminating negative self-programming, the prior belief that we have broken windows and it is OK to have them.

Every person has a fixed and limited amount of time each day. It is also a personal choice to spend that time looking for flaws, your broken windows, or to move beyond and apply out time accomplishing beneficial results. Another way to look at this is to understand that we are not broken, but we may need to clean a few panes to see what our potential is. Success is a matter of perspective, how you see yourself fitting, in a positive manner, in life and your career. Following the analogy, it requires some effort to clean and eliminate the mistaken belief that we are broken and need fixing.

Repeating our failures comes from approaching each situation looking for broken people or broken connections. The success each of us experiences comes from either pure luck, which is rare, or from connecting with others in situations that are mutually beneficial. These connections arise when we approach situations and people, not searching for flaws, but rather with a forward looking and positive sense of ourselves.

This segment of the blog covers the ‘WHAT’ to identify and eliminate negative self-programming. Next week I will cover the ‘HOW’. Thank you for taking the time, do you understand that there are no broken windows.