The One Thing That Supports or Undermines EVERYTHING You Do

If there was only one thing that decided whether you could find peace, synergy and forward movement within your family, your team at work, your community, and your country — would you want to know what it was? If there was only one thing that influenced every decision you made and action you took, that determined what made you feel good or what left you feeling challenged, would you want to understand it?

The one thing that undermines or supports EVERYTHING we do is…..

…..culture.

What do you understand culture to be? Asking the question in a group of people generally sees people digging in their brains to define a word we’ve seldom thought deeply about. A word we take for granted and gloss over. Something that each of us defines differently or assumes a surface-level understanding of. What IS culture? What is it made up of? Is it something that just exists? Do we have any control over it? What does culture itself control or affect?

Culture controls and affects everything. Culture controls and affects you.

Culture is both an individual claim and a collective expression. It’s made up of our beliefs, our values, our upbringing and heritage, our traditions and habits, our perspectives, our stories. We take the foundation of our culture from our heritage, often without questioning it, and we add to it the thoughts, beliefs and opinions that grow with us as we…