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Doing, Causing, or Occurring Patterns
Types of Patterns
Understanding the extent of your influence and awareness.
Doing, Causing, or Occurring Patterns
Another way to understand patterns is by looking at whether they are doing, causing, or occurring ones. This helps you understand the extent of your influence and awareness over the patterns that shape your life in retirement.
”Developing awareness of whether your patterns are doing, causing, or occurring gives you clarity. If you understand what you do and why, you can interrupt or replace unhelpful patterns and strengthen or repeat the helpful ones.”
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The Three Types
Doing and Causing Patterns
Anything you do or cause that is either helpful or unhelpful. These patterns involve actions or reactions you recognise, even if you don’t yet understand why they happen.
Occurring Patterns
Anything that happens to you — experiences or outcomes that seem to occur without your awareness or direct involvement. These can feel puzzling or automatic, as if they’re beyond your control.
Levels of Awareness
Patterns can exist at different levels of understanding. You may: know you do or cause a pattern and know why; know you do or cause it, but not understand why; notice that something keeps occurring without realising your role in it; or be entirely unaware of the pattern altogether.
Example
Peter’s Story
Example – Peter’s Story
Peter’s pattern was occurring: his obsession with savings and investments became his refuge after leaving work. It gave him control but left him isolated. Only when a friend confronted him did he realise how unaware he’d become of the emotional need driving this behaviour — the loss of structure and identity that work had provided.
Again, make a mental note of what you connect with.