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28 Sep 2022

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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…

26 Sep 2022

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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…

21 Sep 2022

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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…

19 Sep 2022

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Working 9 to 5 While Still Making a Life

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! This week we feature a quote from Dolly Parton, an American singer-songwriter, businesswoman, and philanthropist. While she keeps herself busy in many avenues, she reminds us that we must not forget to make a life! "Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."dolly parton Our upcoming Personal Kaizen post will discuss the current trending term "quiet quitting" and how to achieve the perfect work-life balance. Something we can all benefit from! Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to support and encourage both personal and professional…

14 Sep 2022

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Increase Productivity: How to Set Priorities Using Roles

Recent posts have shared basic concepts for priority setting, including prioritizing your big rocks, using ABC prioritization, and eating that frog first. We also discussed beginning with first things first – ensuring your purpose, values, and goals are included as big rocks. Now we look at combining these concepts with priority setting using roles. Work-Life Balance Using Roles Planning and prioritizing your week can be challenging, even when you are focused on your big rocks. Many years ago, I began the practice of identifying the key roles I hold in my life and my key priorities for growth in each…

12 Sep 2022

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Our Role in Society: A Direct Reflection of Us All

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! Many know John Lennon as the famous singer, songwriter, and musician of The Beatles. He was also an activist who believed that our role in society was a direct reflection of us all. "My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."john lennon Our upcoming Personal Kaizen post will elaborate on a method for regular goal setting using your roles. Stay tuned!…

07 Sep 2022

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Increase Your Productivity: Purpose, Values, and Goals

We spoke about prioritizing your big rocks in our previous post. But how do you determine what the big rocks in your life are? We will share a few methods you can use to determine your life purpose, core values, and goals. Photo Credit: simonsinek.com Start with Your Why In the book, Start with Why, Simon Sinek encourages leaders and organizations to lead their messaging with why they do what they do. He shares his simple concept of the Golden Circle, with your why in the middle, then your how and finally what you do on the edge. As Sinek…

31 Aug 2022

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Increase Your Productivity: Priority Setting

Are you able to say, “I made great progress in the parts of life I value” at the end of each day? Our next several posts focus on personal and professional productivity – beginning with the importance of priority setting. Here are three great tips for priority setting: Scheduling your Big Rocks first, ABC Prioritization, and Eat That Frog First. Priority Setting – Big Rocks First The first step in priority setting is identifying your values and principles for life. What values are most important to you? What relationships? How will you help others in your life? In what ways…

29 Aug 2022

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Learning How to Schedule Your Priorities

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! Stephen Covey was an American educator, businessman, and well-known author of the self-help book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. He believed you should not prioritize what's on your schedule, but instead schedule your priorities. "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."stephen covey If you find yourself prioritizing what's on your schedule, our upcoming Personal Kaizen post is for you! We will share tips on how to effectively prioritize your life by scheduling your priorities. Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to…

24 Aug 2022

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Focus on What You Control: Stoic Teachings by Epictetus

The Personal Kaizen community believes simple improvements in our health and mindset will significantly improve the quality of our life. We have recently studied works of Stoic philosophy that we believe can be inspiring to our followers. We have shared 5 Ways Stoic Philosophy Improves your Mood and Attitude and summarized passages from On the Shortness of Life by Seneca. We've also shared some simple Meditations from Marcus Aurelius. This week we highlight Stoic teachings from the handbook by Epictetus: Focus on What You Control! Photo Credit: Fourteen Lines Blog Epictetus is considered one of the founders of Stoic philosophy…

Increase Your Productivity: A Simple Process for Planning the Week

Creating Your World With Your Reality

A Simple Tool to Improve Your Work/Life Balance

Working 9 to 5 While Still Making a Life

Increase Productivity: How to Set Priorities Using Roles

Our Role in Society: A Direct Reflection of Us All

Increase Your Productivity: Purpose, Values, and Goals

Increase Your Productivity: Priority Setting

Learning How to Schedule Your Priorities

Focus on What You Control: Stoic Teachings by Epictetus

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