The 1-Minute Trick that Can Change Your Life and Help You Overcome Laziness
Keeping this mentality in mind, I started looking for ways to up my motivation and squash my procrastination in a manner that would make me a productive machine. That turned out to be much easier conceived than accomplished.
That is until I stumbled upon a very simple Japanese principle: Kaizen.
The Principles of Kaizen
At first glance, Kaizen seems so simple. In fact, at first glance, I thought “there is no way this can work.” Kaizen is built on the idea of accomplishing a task through a series of very small steps. We’ve all come to believe that accomplishing big goals requires big changes and hard work, when in reality, it requires a series of very small changes to accomplish one big goal.Example:
Let’s say you have a huge pile of laundry to do. You look at the pile of laundry and think “this will take a day to sort, wash, dry, and fold.” The task seems huge on the surface. So, what you do is set a timer on your phone for 1 minute and start sorting. The idea is: in your brain a minute seems minuscule. You do the task for a minute, and at the end you have an actual, tangible, recordable result.The Kaizen Institute:
The principles of Kaizen were developed by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan’s Competitive Success in 1986. Since the introduction of that book, Kaizen has become recognized worldwide as an important foundation of many company’s long-term competitive strategies.Companies from all over the world using the consulting services of the Kaizen Institue to run their businesses more efficiently and with greater success. For 30 years the principles of Kaizen have been improving the workflows of some of the largest corporation in the world, so just imagine what these basic principles can do for you and that pile of laundry.
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