A minute a day: Japanese kaizen trick against laziness

As a rule, every person is endowed with ambitions, has a goal in life and strives to achieve it, making appropriate efforts. At the same time, he needs to work a lot and diligently, giving all his strength. However, human nature often makes its own adjustments to the life plan. Laziness prevents us from achieving our goals; at least, it slows down our vigorous activity, postponing it until better times. The Japanese use a clever trick called “kaizen” to combat laziness.

Masaaki Imai Method

People start new projects with great enthusiasm, but over time their zeal gradually decreases. Sometimes they stop, transferring work to another day, and then, due to laziness, they cannot start it again. And then the “kaizen” strategy used by the Japanese can come to the rescue.

This word consists of two parts. The first of these, "kai", means "change", and the second, "zen", translates as "wisdom". The originator of this term is Masaaki Imai, a theorist and consultant on performance management. Kaizen is also called the “one minute principle”, following which allows you to improve yourself and, overcoming laziness, continue the work necessary to achieve the goal.

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If the car is moving and the tachograph records the rest time...

Let's imagine a fictitious situation. You are driving, with a stopwatch in your hands, “counting the seconds from 29 to 31” and moving the car so that your rest time is not interrupted. There is no more need to be done than to ensure that in each minute the longest continuous action is the time of rest. You did this 10 times and moved the car from one place to another. While you were moving the car, the police were standing behind you and watching/discussing/thinking what you were doing. You move, then you stand, and so on 10 times in a row. The police decide to come and check on you. She checks the driver's card and sees that for the last 10-15 minutes the card shows that all this time lasted as rest time. But the car was moving forward... How could that be, who was driving? Think about it now. What would you answer them... How would you solve the situation?

In principle, you were dealing with “work,” but you knew about something that helped you register “rest time” instead of “work time.” Did you know about the 1 Minute Rule? And the stopwatch is ticking in my hand

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