You get in life what you tolerate

When you’re creating an environment to support your goals, remember that you get in life what you tolerate.

This is true in every area of your life—particularly within your relationships with family, friends, and colleagues. What you have decided to tolerate is also reflected in the situations and circumstances of your life right now. Put another way, you will get  in life what you accept and expect you are worthy of. If you tolerate disrespect, you will be disrespected. If you tolerate people being late and making you wait, people will show up late for you. If you tolerate being underpaid and  overworked, that will continue for you. If you tolerate your body being overweight, tired, and perpetually sick, it will be. It’s amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself. Some people think they’re the victims of other people’s behavior, but in actuality, we have control over how  people treat us. Protect your emotional, mental, and physical space so you can live with peace, rather than in the chaos and stress the world will hurl upon you.

Source: “The Compound Effect”  by Darren Hardy 

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10x THINKING

One company stands out as most impressive in the world right now for its way of thinking. Not for its achievements today (although hugely influential), but for the impact its way of thinking will have on our collective futures.That company is Google.

“The story of innovation has not changed. It has always been a small team of people who have a new idea, typically not understood by people around them and their executives.”

—Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google

Google doesn’t have a secret formula, but we have distilled our thinking into a set of basic principles—ideas we believe can be adapted and applied at pretty much any organization,  regardless of size or industry. One of the principles of innovation applied inside Google is 10X thinking.

-—Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google

The notion of “10x thinking” is at the heart of innovation at Google. To put the idea simply: true innovation happens when you try to improve something by 10 times rather than by 10%.This is the guiding inspiration for engineers at Google[x]—the division of Google that focuses on producing major technological advances such as self-driving cars. Ever since Google  started the self-driving car project, they have been working toward the goal of vehicles that can shoulder the entire burden of driving .Building a prototype vehicle that's designed to take you where you want to go at the push of a button—no driving required.

 A 10x goal forces you to rethink an idea entirely. It pushes you beyond existing models and forces you to totally imagine how to approach it.

Source:https://gsuite.google.co.in/intl/en_in/learn-more/creating_a_culture_of_innovation.html

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One Small Step …

One small step at a time is  about the big idea of “Kaizen”, which is Japanese for “taking small steps to continual improvement.”

Kaizen is an ancient philosophy captured in this powerful statement from the Tao Te Ching: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Though it is rooted in ancient philosophy, it is just as practical and effective when applied to our hectic modern lives. Japanese corporations have long used the gentle technique of kaizen to achieve their business goals and maintain excellence. Now this elegant strategy can help you realize your personal dreams.

Kaizen has two definitions:

a) using very small steps to improve a habit, a process, or product.

b) using very small moments to inspire new products and inventions.

This philosophy of small steps toward improvement was introduced to Japan after the war, when General Douglas MacArthur’s occupation forces began to rebuild that devastated country.

“When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don’t look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That’s the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.” 

—John Wooden, one of the most successful coaches in the history of college basketball

Just take one small step at a time for everlasting result ....

Source : “One Small Step Can Change Your Life” by  ROBERT MAURER

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