Transform Your Life With Gratitude

Transform Your Life With Gratitude

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! This week we share a quote from the late motivational writer, William Arthur Ward, best known for his many poems and meditations. He was an avid believer that you could transform your life with gratitude. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”William Arthur Ward As we are heading into Thanksgiving Day, we at Personal Kaizen hope that you find the time to slow down, give thanks and transform your life with gratitude. Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here…
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Fasting: How to Find Humility and Clarity

Fasting: How to Find Humility and Clarity

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! This week we're sharing a quote from Jentezen Franklin, an American pastor, and author. He believes fasting humbles you and brings clarity during tough times. “Fasting humbles you and brings clarity, even allowing you to get unforgiveness and bitterness out of your heart.”Jentezen Franklin Our upcoming Personal Kaizen post will share lessons learned from Team Lead Steve Musica's second fast! If you're new to fasting, check out our past posts on the scientific benefits of fasting and how to prepare for one. Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to…
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A Simple Tool for Finding Fulfillment

A Simple Tool for Finding Fulfillment

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! We're back with another quote from Marshall Goldsmith, the author of The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment! Please enjoy his take on finding fulfillment. "The simplest tool I know to finding fulfillment is being open to fulfillment."Marshall Goldsmith This week we will share Part 2 of our book summary of The Earned Life on the Lean East site. If you didn't catch Part 1, be sure to check it out! Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to support and encourage both personal and professional continuous improvement, helping you…
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How to Overcome a Negative Mindset

How to Overcome a Negative Mindset

As humans, we all experience negative thoughts that can easily lead to a negative mindset. The good news is, we don't have to get stuck there (as discussed during our brain hacks series.) This week the Personal Kaizen team shares a TedTalk by Alison Ledgerwood, a social psychologist at UC Davis, where she explains why our brains focus on the negatives and how to overcome a negative mindset. Please check it out below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XFLTDQ4JMk Tips to Overcome a Negative Mindset Overcoming the negative takes work and effort! Ledgerwood shares several tips to move past the negative: Spend a few minutes…
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Why We Need a Positive Attitude

Why We Need a Positive Attitude

Check out our Personal Kaizen Motivational Monday quote! A positive attitude has the ability to make or break just about anything. In this week's quote, Richard DeVos Sr., who was a businessman and once an owner of the Orlando Magic, shares just why we need a positive attitude! "A positive atmosphere nurtures a positive attitude, which is required to take positive action."Richard DeVos Sr. Our upcoming Personal Kaizen post will elaborate on how to overcome a negative mindset with a TedTalk from Alison Ledgerwood. Join the Personal Kaizen Community Our community is here to support and encourage both personal and professional continuous…
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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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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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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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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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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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