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...
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Fly Free Fly High
One seagull, dreams of flying better than a seagull has ever flown, instead of spending his days looking for scraps of food.
“Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight—how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything...
The Secret of Achieving More with Less
The secret in simple terms as per Richard Koch ~~
“Do more of what makes best use of time and money.”
You have probably observed that often the majority of output stem from the minority of input. It could happen in your business when the majority of sales come from a little subset of your products. Often this ratio is around, but not limited to 20% and 80%.
People...
Sense of Purpose
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Frankl...
Friday, May 31, 2019
The dilemma “ be strong or be intellegent”
“According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.” — Leon C. Megginson, Civilisation Past and Present, 1963
The thing that separates us humans from...
Art of work… ?
There was a painter named Peter Paul Rubens who found himself inundated with requests for paintings. To alleviate this, he created a system. He employed dozens of extremely talented painters, one specializing in robes, another in backgrounds, and so on. He created a vast production line in which a large number of canvases would be worked on at the same time.
When an important client would...
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Yes Face' Attitude
What you do when you don’t have to will determine what you’ll be when you can’t help it – William D. Hersey
In his book, The Grace Awakening, Charles Swindoll tells a story about Thomas Jefferson and a group of companions who were travelling across country on horseback. They came to a river which had left its banks because of a recent downpour. The swollen river had washed the bridge away....
The River and the Lion
"After the great rains, the lion was faced with crossing the river that had encircled him. Swimming was not in his nature, but it was either cross or die.
The lion roared and charged the river, almost drowning before he retreated. Many more times he attacked the water, and each time he failed to cross.
Exhausted, the lion lay down, and in his quietness he heard the river say, "Never...
Be like water, my friend
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot,...
STORY that can change your life
In 1972, Jim Cathcart was working at the Little Rock, Arkansas Housing Authority, making $525 a month, with a new wife and baby at home, no college degree, no past successes, and not much hope for the foreseeable future.
One morning, he was sitting in his office listening to the radio, to a program called "Our Changing World" by Earl Nightingale, who was known as "the Dean of Personal...