Sum

Sigma is a Greek letter, Σ. Analogically, it is the S in the Portuguese language.

In mathematics, Sigma symbolises the summation of factors and is used in calculations where there is a definition of the components of the sum.

Sigma is always greater than its components. Extrapolating, Sigma represents accumulation, aggregation, increase, production, result.

Far from the mathematical field, Sigma is the organised, predictable sum of efforts to aggregate into a single greater value that ultimately represents the efforts of its components.

Sigma is perhaps one of the most powerful symbols of productivity.

Show me your numbers and I'll tell you which sigmas row for you and which against. And how big you are.

When we open the balance of anything you measure, what we see there, is a number. It's the simple calculation of inputs and outputs.

Simple is also the calculation of what you have done to make that input bigger and bigger and the output smaller and smaller.

In our daily lives, there will be actions that greatly help these numbers and others that hinder them too much.

And most of us know what to do to improve our numbers.

It turns out that life cannot be reduced to mere accounting.

Sigma is universal but in its finitude it is restricted to operating with defined events, modelled and boxed to enter its aggregating line of results.

The feeling of overload and too much to do at once is a result of sigma modelling.

We end up thinking that the more we put on the sum side, the higher the result will be. But in practice this doesn't happen.

There is an optimal number that generates the best result. More and the result drops. Less and the result drops.

There is a good chance that many of your numbers are below and just as others are above that optimum and your "machine" is skating in some areas.

This last week of the month, I'm going to oil mine.

I will be thinking about our Sigma this year.