18 May 2022
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Brain Hack 3: How To Calm Down and Reduce Stress

Brain Hack 3: How To Calm Down and Reduce Stress

Our previous post shared a brain hack that improves your mood instantly. Brain hack 3 will also improve your mood by helping you calm down and reduce stress. This hack can be used anytime you notice that you are feeling anxious, nervous, or overly stressed. How Stress Affects the Brain and Body Stress affects all systems of the body, especially the nervous system. The first part of our brain to form is the limbic system, responsible for our fight-or-flight response to danger. The nervous system responds to stress and danger by forcing shorter, more rapid breaths that will provide us…
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11 May 2022
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Brain Hack 2: Easily and Instantly Improve Your Mood

Brain Hack 2: Easily and Instantly Improve Your Mood

Our last post shared a brain hack that will help you feel more alert and awake in only 15 seconds. This hack is even quicker and simpler. If you are feeling sad or down, all you have to do to feel better is force a smile and improve your mood instantly! Neural Loops in the Brain The human brain uses neural loops as shortcuts in thinking. Many of these loops are innate, meaning even babies do this without being taught how. For example, try holding your breath and tell your brain not to take a breath. Our brain circuitry is…
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05 May 2022
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Brain Hacks: How To Trick Your Brain for Maximum Effectiveness

Brain Hacks: How To Trick Your Brain for Maximum Effectiveness

Our last post explains how to use the power of our subconscious mind and visualization to help us achieve positive outcomes. This is the first lesson in a Personal Kaizen topic on brain hacks - simple ways we can use neuroscience to trick our brain for maximum effectiveness. I’m about to share a brain hack that will help you feel more alert and awake in only 15 seconds! Our Incredible Brain I first began studying the workings of the human brain in 2005 after accepting a position as a Director of Operations for a medical device company manufacturing deep brain…
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27 Apr 2022
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When You Worry You Visualize What You Don’t Want!

When You Worry You Visualize What You Don’t Want!

I’ve been wanting to share this concept for a few years now but haven’t known where to begin. Rule 4 of the Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life is to Live in the Moment with a Positive Mindset. I have too many friends and family members who experience anxiety and worry about outcomes. The problem with this is that when you worry, you visualize what you don’t want to happen. The visualization remains in your subconscious thoughts and becomes more likely to occur! Think Positively Visualization can be a helpful tool for achieving a goal. Simply envision how you will…
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20 Apr 2022
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The Continuous Improvement Learning Cycle

The Continuous Improvement Learning Cycle

Kaizen, the Japanese word for continuous improvement, has a long history of success in organizational improvement. The Personal Kaizen movement applies these continuous improvement best practices on a personal level – helping you make small changes to continuously improve yourself. This post shares a continuous improvement learning cycle you can use to experiment and discover the changes that work best for you. Our team has shared our 10 Rules for Life and many simple personal improvement recommendations. Some of our suggestions can change your life for the better, but not every idea is going to be one that makes sense…
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13 Apr 2022
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12 Small Habits that will Change Your Life for Good

12 Small Habits that will Change Your Life for Good

I recently saw a new book in my local library that I knew I had to read and share with the Personal Kaizen community. Liquids Till Lunch: 12 Small Habits that Will Change Your Life for Good by MaryRuth Ghiyam is a 2021 release with a title that made me skeptical and a subtitle that made me interested. I wondered – how many of her 12 small habits would agree with the Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life? The author is a certified health educator and nutritional consultant with several episodes of personal loss as defining life experiences. This post…
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01 Dec 2021
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Try out your Big Dreams – You may change them!

Try out your Big Dreams – You may change them!

I have big dreams. My friends, clients, and colleagues also have dreams and ambitions. If you aren't already one of the above, I'm sure you have dreams too. If you work hard and have some luck, you will someday move from the dreaming stage to the planning stage - determining the actions that will move your plan forward. There are many great tools to help you make a plan for financial independence (try this simple planner or this more complex version), but what will you spend your money and time doing once you get there? Make some Big Dreams One…
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13 Oct 2021
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10 Rules for Life

10 Rules for Life

Here is our video that compiles the Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life. 10 Rules for Life 1. Maximize Your Natural Strengths 2. Take Care of Your Body and Mind 3. Be Proactive 4. Live in the Moment with a Positive Mindset 5. Experience Love and be Loved 6. Learn and Grow Throughout Your Life 7. To be Rich, Spend Money on What You Love 8. Give Back to Others 9. Develop Good Habits and Routines 10. Practice Radical Humility Ideas for Action We hope you have enjoyed considering our 10 Rules for Life and used the ideas for action…
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06 Oct 2021
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Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life: Rule 10

Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life: Rule 10

Our final of the 10 Rules for Life is to Practice Radical Humility. Relax as you watch these tips! The Personal Kaizen team is sharing our 10 Rules for Life. Please watch all of our videos beginning with Rule 1. RULE 10: Practice Radical Humility. Humility comes from understanding our place in the larger order of things and not taking our desires, failures, or successes too seriously. Humility is linked to learning and teachability – a way of being that embraces constant self-correction and self-improvement. You are not important. Neither is anyone else. We all live in an insignificant place…
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29 Sep 2021
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Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life: Rule 9

Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life: Rule 9

Rule 9 of the Personal Kaizen 10 Rules for Life is to develop good habits and routines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkHcsCXSpfs The Personal Kaizen team is sharing our 10 Rules for Life. Please watch all of our videos beginning with Rule 1. RULE 9: Avoid Decision Fatigue - Develop Good Habits and Routines. Do you ever come home from a hard day at work and just collapse on the couch, with no desire or energy to go to the gym, make dinner, or take care of other responsibilities? Self-management helps us to be productive and “get sh%t done.” Self-control also takes a great…
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