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Satisfaction Can Make Us Yield to Inertia

Satisfaction Can Make Us Yield to Inertia

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! This week we feature a quote from Marshall Goldsmith, an executive leadership coach, and author. He believes that satisfaction can make us yield to inertia. "If we’re satisfied with our life—not necessarily happy or delighted that we’ve exceeded our wildest expectations, just satisfied—we yield to inertia. We continue doing what we’ve always done."marshall goldsmith Our Personal Kaizen topic this week will be on the Lean East site. We will share the main takeaways from the 2022 book The Earned Life by Marshall Goldsmith. Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to support and encourage both personal…
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Increase Your Productivity: How To Schedule Priorities

Increase Your Productivity: How To Schedule Priorities

This is the final post in a series focused on increasing your productivity. Previous posts have shared how to increase your productivity by prioritizing the big rocks, defining your values and goals, and prioritizing and planning based on your key roles. We also shared a simple tool to improve your work/life balance, a process for planning the week, the need to define measures of success and hold yourself accountable, and why considering your context, energy, and time available is important. This final post in the series discusses systems to schedule priorities and includes a video that demonstrates the prioritization system author Steve Musica uses.…
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Take the First Step and Write It Down

Take the First Step and Write It Down

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! We hope you enjoy this quote from Lee Iacocca about writing something down. Iacocca was an American automobile expert best known for his developments at Ford Motor Company in the 1960s and at Chrysler Corporation in the 1980s. "The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."lee iacocca Later this week, the Personal Kaizen team will discuss systems to schedule priorities. Our post will even include a video that demonstrates the prioritization system author Steve Musica uses. This will be the final post in our Increase Your Productivity…
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Increase Your Productivity by Using Scrap Time

Increase Your Productivity by Using Scrap Time

We are sharing tips that will help you and other members of the Personal Kaizen community increase your productivity. Today’s post shares a few important continuous improvements I have implemented to my prioritization and scheduling that has really helped increase productivity. Read on to learn improved methods of prioritization and a method to increase your productivity by using scrap time. Problems with the Franklin Covey Method of Prioritization Photo Credit: Franklin Planner I used the Franklin Covey system of prioritization for many years, ranking my priorities as A1, A2, A3, all the way to my last C priority. I would…
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Small: A Great Destination

Small: A Great Destination

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! This week we feature a quote from Jason Fried, the CEO of the project management platform, Basecamp. We can agree with him that small is a great destination itself! "Small is not just a stepping-stone. Small is a great destination itself."Jason fried Our upcoming Personal Kaizen post will share how to use "scrap time" effectively and make the most of small chunks of time! Where do you have tiny windows of time in your day-to-day? Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to support and encourage both personal and professional continuous…
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Increase Your Productivity: How to Use Measurement and Accountability

Increase Your Productivity: How to Use Measurement and Accountability

We are sharing tips that will help you and other members of the Personal Kaizen community increase your productivity. Today’s post covers measurement and accountability – areas that are often overlooked – or avoided – by individuals. The most effective people practice personal kaizen – continual progress (every day) that compounds over time into massive achievement. Measure What Matters Legendary venture capitalist John Doerr wrote the New York Times bestseller Measure What Matters and suggests you: Focus and commit to priorities: What are your 3-4 most important goals? A short list of goals is easier to track and commit to getting done.Align…
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Organizing Your Thoughts For a Better Reality

Organizing Your Thoughts For a Better Reality

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! Napoleon Hill was an American self-help author who is best known for his book Think and Grow Rich. This week's quote shares his idea of organizing your thoughts for a better reality. "First comes thought; then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality."Napoleon Hill Our upcoming Personal Kaizen post will explore the ideas of measurement and accountability. Stay tuned! Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to support and encourage both personal and professional continuous improvement, helping you to reach your goals and…
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Increase Your Productivity: A Simple Process for Planning the Week

Increase Your Productivity: A Simple Process for Planning the Week

Recent posts have shared how to increase your productivity by prioritizing the big rocks, defining your values and goals, and prioritizing and planning based on your key roles. We also shared a simple tool to improve your work/life balance. This post will share a simple process for planning the week to ensure you increase your productivity on the important goals in each of the key roles in your life. A Simple Process for Planning the Week Here is the simple process I’ve been using to plan my week for at least the past ten years. Begin with a review of…
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Creating Your World With Your Reality

Creating Your World With Your Reality

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! Author Taylor Stevens is an award-winning, New York Times bestseller who has used her daily reality to create her own world, as well as a world for her readers. We can all use today as our starting point, just like Taylor! "Where I am today is my starting point. Who I am today is my starting point. My failures and successes of the past, my fears and hopes of the future are all shadows. Today is my reality, and I’ll use it to create my world."taylor stevens This week's Personal Kaizen post will…
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A Simple Tool to Improve Your Work/Life Balance

A Simple Tool to Improve Your Work/Life Balance

Our last post shared how to prioritize and plan based on your key roles. Focusing on all your roles – as a parent, partner, relative, friend, employee, volunteer, etc. – is one way to help you improve your work/life balance. Despite some recent articles and memes about “quiet quitting,” improving your work/life balance is NOT the same thing as quiet quitting. We’ll describe the idea of “quiet quitting” that has recently become mainstream and share a simple tool you can use to prioritize your life and also improve your work/life balance. The Quiet Quitting Meme “Quiet Quitting” refers to doing…
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