The crucial principle of this system is that it’s  . . . just that – a system. This means that, in order to gain from it, you’ll take a couple of vital first steps almost straight away. Those being, intent and action. And you’ll also start with at least some belief, another key element – otherwise why would you even begin? This belief will be reinforced early on by some positive feedback from the system.

Achievement of success, purpose or goals requires that those things be extremely substantial and capable of transforming your life. There seems little point in putting together a mountaineering expedition – simply to ride an elevator to the next floor. So the end game needs to be extremely significant to you and it should also be worthy (more on this later).

In the previous article in my mini series I hinted that there might be a system that I could use to shape my future, in advance. This being the case, it might also answer the question posed in the first of this series – is there a Law of Potential?

The tools and techniques underlying this system are readily accessible to anyone. They’re a blend of science, structure and the psyche.

Now, before you think, ‘whoa this sounds a bit off the dial for me’, you should know that these principles have already been applied and proven successful in the hard-nosed world of business entrepreneurs. One such entrepreneur is on record as saying that the experience was truly “synaptic”.

Is this any sort of choice? Is this what I look forward to?

I’m convinced it can be much more of my choosing. Starting this little series was an article proposing that my future is optional. In other words I have choice.

In fact who, what and where I am now is largely a consequence of my past choices. Therefore it follows that who and what I become and where I journey to, will be a consequence of further choices.

Is there a way of making the right one’s? The correct response starts with another couple of questions.

Some may recognise the title above. It’s borrowed from the lyrics of a song by the Doobie Brothers – actually one of their best and worth another listen anyway.

The message for us is relevant to the previous article. The world is shaped, as we observe it and believe it to be. This principle has a huge impact on what happens, yet we’re simply unaware of it day to day.

The last article finished up by proposing that either we can head into the future from where we are now, the last step dictating the next as we normally do, or we can begin at where we wish to be and determine the intervening steps back to our last.

Is there a ‘Law of Potential?

Where you are now does not dictate where you must go. It can have an influence, no more. Each human has many futures available – they are optional.

Sub-atomic particles only appear in a single place when they are observed or measured. Essentially, they are potentially everywhere simultaneously – until we come on the scene. It is we, with our intent to measure, to observe, that places them in time and space.

Because we are aware of them, is the reason that they have this substance. Another interesting fact is that if these particles are associated but are then spread around the entire universe, then if you do something to one, you effect the others – even though they could be light years apart (in space and time). We create the universe as we know it. Without us, the universe would not be this universe.

Success is the other side of a coin called failure. I guess deep down we all appreciate that to know failure is to learn from it, to avoid it in our future. But there is so much more . . .

The word itself comes from the latin fallere, derived from the root facere – ‘to make; act, take action, be active; compose, write; classify; do, make; create; build, construct; produce; produce by growth; bring forth

Failure makes us humble. Failure gives us freedom to try again and release from the stress and burden of the unsustainable. Freedom to . . . make, act, build, produce, produce by growth, bring forth.

Before the sun itself appears, it’s first rays penetrate the night sky and we understand  - they are part of the same thing. To be there at the dawn, we have to live through the night.

The thing is . . . to be there.

* – with acknowledgements & thanks to Pink Floyd

Are we humans becoming averse to personal challenge and endeavour – to the extent that risk of failure increasingly nullifies any new enterprise?

The guiding adage from previous generations used to be “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” Are we drifting more towards, “if you might fail, don’t try”?

Anything that subverts our ability to recognise, respond to and be exhilarated by the dangers of a new challenge or enterprise frustrates the Human Electric that sits (hides?) as our own little growth engine.

TV makes us dumb, the internet allows us to become numb – as we draw away from risking failure. We’re increasingly educated, academically and socially, to regard failure as a ‘bad thing’. Whereas it can actually be embraced as more of a transformational personal improvement experience than anything that teaches to risk nothing, for fear of failure