Unpacking Your Resistance to Systems I hate systems. Growing up I was Mr. Fuck the System. Thrown out of school, a few run-ins with the law, an ADHD, AuDHD approach to life where I really didn't want to be told what to do. When I started trying to build a business, that identity created problems. Being overly married to the rebel identity, to the point where you can't even follow your own rules, makes it hard to build anything sustainable or impactful. What a system actually is Eventually I nerded out on systems and realised a diary is a system. A bus timetable is a system. The river and the trees are systems. Your liver, your brain, your nervous system are systems. A system is just a collection of parts connected together to serve a specific purpose. To grow an audience and have an impact, we need both habits, which are repeatable behaviours, and systems. None of that happens if our inner teenage rebel is still kicking and screaming at every step. How to work through it Journal on these four prompts to dig out any unconscious blocks: 1. Which systems have hurt you or let you down in life? School, medical, judicial, whatever comes up. 2. What actually happened? Write the detail. How did it feel, how was it harmful. 3. What did you decide about systems, structures, hierarchies or rule-based environments because of it? 4. How has that decision stopped you from getting your work out into the world? What's next When you're finished journaling, comment below with your biggest insight.