See a pattern and what holds it

Why does every push snap back?

A campaign holds a council to a promise; when attention moves on, the promise slips. Effort goes in, and the state slides back. Here a state sits in a landscape whose valleys are the states the system returns to by itself. Compare holding the state where the landscape has no valley with changing the landscape so that it has one.

Push effort 0

Reshape effort 0

Effort over time t = 0

Which costs less, by starting tilt (up) and time held (across): ochre where pushing is cheaper, blue where reshaping is. Click, or use the arrow keys, to step into a run.

Prompts

Name the states your situation could be in – where you are, what you fear, what you hope for.
Name what holds each one: rules, money, habits, stories, relationships. Give each a strength from 1 to 3.
Place yourselves. Is the valley you are in deep or shallow? Does anything hold the state you hope for?
Hold yourselves in the hoped-for state, then let go. What would holding it cost you, in practice, every week?
Instead, change the landscape: weaken a constraint that holds where you are, or add one that would hold the state you hope for. Which change would make that state hold by itself? What small probe would test whether you can make it?

Your landscape

States

The order matters: on the way from one state to another, the line passes through every state between them.

Constraints

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