First, Articulate: Define the content. Isolate and identify it as precisely as possible. What is the situation, goal, idea, plan?
Then, Associate: Determine the context. Orient the content to its environment. What are the contingencies, the history, and relationships involving the content?
Execute or Examine: Having defined the content and the context, decide: is it time to take action, or is more information needed?
Execute: Take action upon the external situation. Work with, create, influence, subdue.
Examine: Seek understanding. Analyze, observe, research, find more information.
Execute →
Repeat: This works, let’s keep doing it. Reinforce, maintain, habitualize, codify.
Restrict: This is either a problem, or it doesn’t work. Limit, restrain, discontinue, eliminate.
Examine →
Adopt: This is valuable, useful, or desirable. Recruit, include, incorporate, accommodate.
Adapt: This is an issue to either change, or change with. Lets go around it or transform it. Modify, predict, avoid, negotiate.
