The only way to ever achieve all your goals... ever

bygreg2666

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11 years ago

So it's been a while since I wrote a blog on either my website or WA. The topic of todays post is incremental improvement... Below are some extra thoughts but you can see the full post here: http://personalevolution.siterubix.com/cani-kaizen-and-the-1-rule

The only way to ever achieve all your goals... ever

CANI or Can I? is an acronym that stands for Continuous And Never-ending Improvement, a term coined by Anthony Robbins based upon the Japanese philosophy of Kaizen.

It is a philosphy that encourages workers in a business to look at every aspect of their job and suggest improvements, to make the company run leaner.

How does this help me?

Kaizen is a gradual improvement, looking for one thing that you could improve and then implementing it to see the results. My suggestion is that based upon your goals you try and improve or take one step towards them each day. To do this break down your long term goals into smaller daily, weekly, monthly etc goals.

E.g. I want to save £100,000 in cash this decade (so we can ignore interest)... Now at first this may seem a big goal, however lets look at it using the method above.

10 years -100,000

yearly - 10,000

monthly - 833

weekly - 192

daily - 27

So by putting away £27 daily you can achieve £100,000 cash in 10 years. Obviously if you invest the daily amount, the time it takes to achieve the goal will reduce vastly, but this is a very simplified example.

Where does Kaizen tie in?

So say you can only afford to put £1 aside each day, grow accustomed to living on £1 a less per day. Then using Kaizen gradually increasing what you put aside until you have achieved your goal i.e. next put away £2 a day, then £2.50, £3 and so on. Soon you'll be saving much more a day then you would have thought possible before you started this process.

So I hope you can see how you can use small steps (CANI and Kaizen) to achieve big goals.

Any questions? Drop a comment below.

Greg