Cycles

Sales Cycles.
Business Cycles.
Product Life Cycles.
Orbital Cycles.
Hiring Cycles.
Sleep Cycles.
Economic Cycles.
Water Cycles.
Weather Cycles.
Life Cycles.
Market Cycles.

Some of these are human-made, and some are built into the fabric of the universe.

Cycles are systems. Like all systems, you can either work with them or work to change them. If you ignore a cycle, it keeps turning. If you fight it blindly, it fights back. But if you understand it, you can adapt, influence, or even redesign it.

If you want to change a cycle, it’s probably best to first understand it as a system, because systems protect themselves. What will it react to? What will it react against?

You can’t always break a cycle, but you can decide how you engage with it.