Good morning and welcome to the Increasing Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 22006.

Most people, when they're designing their performance systems, they fail for one reason.

And it's because they assume that they are unlimited.

They neglect the fact that they're human and they have limits.

Limited attention, limited memory,

limited energy, limited time. I can go on. But most people design systems as if they're always going

to remember. They're always going to have focus. They're always going to execute under pressure.

Not only is that backwards, but that's not true. We're human. We're going to have bad days.

In my work in helping people and teams design performance systems, what we want is we don't want

them to try harder. We want them to design

systems that require less thinking, fewer decisions, clearer priorities, where their actions are

obvious. They know what to do. It's automatic. It's automized. And so when you're designing your

system, instead of ignoring

your limits, you want to design around them. You want to use them. Because when you do that,

you're going to be able to perform when stress hits. And so my invitation to you is to take a look

at your systems that you currently have. If it only works when you are flawless,

then you don't have a system. You need something that can stand the test of time,

that can hold up under pressure, they can hold up when you're tired and you're stressed and you

don't want to do it. It's where you do it automatically. So you need to break it down

and keep it simple and just continue to execute it until you do it automatically. And so

hopefully this is helpful. Have a great day. We'll do it next time. If you love stuff like this

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