Medicine teaches us the importance of diagnosis, on which further treatment and therapies are based. The task of diagnosis, roughly speaking, is to grasp the current state of an organism or system, similar to an inventory.

This fact is reflected in our day-to-day language when we say such things as: "Knowing yourself is the first step towards improvement". This also means that after some time, you need a period of self-evaluation and reflection in order to be able to know yourself. To do this, you usually compare yourself with a reference system at a particular point in time. There is usually enough time for correction, if necessary. In business, this most closely corresponds to the notion of interim result.

Self-reflection (as-is analysis) thus represents something fundamental in life. It helps us to find our bearings in life and in our environment. Becoming aware of one's own situation ultimately leads to self-knowledge, from which we may derive certain measures. The as-is analysis (diagnosis) is something like a thermometer. It merely tells you the temperature, while an interpretation of what is being indicated is left to the observer.

Since nature always strives for equilibrium, there is no demand for making grand changes, but rather for understanding by adding new perspectives. That means, being conscious of what there is, in order that the organism (the system) itself can put things back into equilibrium. That is, after all, its nature. The organism remembers, so to speak, its natural oscillation and is once again conscious of it. All that is required is perspectives or stimuli.

This comprehensive understanding leads to the greatest consciousness and to what is called wei wu wei. This originates in Taoism and means something like "action without action" or "the right way and the right action". That means: It is possible to feel free and fulfilled in one‘s work, one's being and one's life – everything flows.