Constant Improvement on a daily basis? Why not.

"We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things which one does not understand and therefore, we ask them why dont you just go ahead and take action; try to do something?. You realize how little you know and you face your own failures and you simply can correct those failures and redo it again and at the second trial you realize another mistake or another thing you did not like so you can redo it once again. So by constant improvement based upon action, one can rise to the higher level of practice and knowledge” - Fujio Cho, President, Toyota Motor Corporation, 2002

The quote above made by Fujio Cho really sums up the essence of Kaizen, a Japanese Management philosophy. The spirit behind kaizen is making changes in incremental way that will eventually in time creates big changes. The key factor here is very simple... Action! Just act and do something whether it is the wrong way or right way is much better from not doing anything at all. Either way, you definitely will learn something and in the process makes you a better and stronger person than yesterday.

The Man who shape his destiny

Besides many admiration for his powerful martial arts, Bruce Lee is also admired by the principles that he holds and the belief that he controls his destiny. Therefore, he have become a legend in his own rights. Below are some quotes made by him during his lifetime that we can reflect and learn.

"I fear not the man who has practised 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practised one kick 10,000 times." - Bruce Lee

"To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee

"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made of." - Bruce Lee

" Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind" - Bruce Lee

Tend your Mind

Everyday our mind will filter an enormous amount of information from getting through to our mind. Just imagine if we start to focus on everything that we see, hear or feel at every moment of the time. Even the buzzing of mosquitoes or the beat of your heart sometimes are filtered by your brain so that you can focus on more important matters. Therefore, it is important that we select appropriately what we focus everyday in our life. Focus on negative things, magically or by coincidence, bad things keeps on happening around us. Because the mind will delete the positive things happening around you and therefore amplified the bad things that is happening. And you keep wondering what has happened to the world? Actually is not the world that have gone bad, but it is more of your perception of the world. Clean your mind and the world will become a better place for you.

Pain and Pleasure

For programmers, they know that behind all the complexity of the software and hardware of a computer, the most fundamental and basic of computer programming is the binary code, 1 and 0. Put it together like 1011, 0011, 0011, it can perform multiple functions. Suprisingly, the human brain also has this most basic and fundamental program imprinted in our brain. The binary code for our brain are pain and pleasure. Combine it together, it forms the very basis of judgement and action that we take in our daily lives. For every reality that we are facing, our brain quickly compute whether the activity is for pain or pleasure. Facing any danger situation, the brain will automatically know that this will lead to pain and we will either run away or face head on. We will always try to stay away from pain and moving towards pleasure and therefore making the basis of our own personality. For example, people who link pleasure with playing sports, will always move towards sports. But there will also be people who link pain with sports and therefore avoid sports. This judgement forms the personality of the person. By knowing and be aware of this basic programming of our mind, we can actually manipulate and create the action that we desire in life and fully achieved the life that we want.

Morning Wakeup

Do you want to start developing more enthusiasm into your life? Do you want to get the right mental attitude and high spirited to start your day? Why not start at your own bed. Wake up early and with enthusiastically. Do not get up with moaning and hoping to get another minute of sleep. Many people start off their day just like any other day and because of that, the day will become the same day as they have already visioned.

Try this procedure for 21 days. Everytime you wake up, immediately sit straight and shout 'Woohooo!! It's another good day for me." I know it sounds silly and maybe you will feel not in the mood of doing it early in the morning, but whether you are in the mood or not, just do it. You will noticed a slight change of emotion for you in starting the day. Instead of feeling sluggish to go to work, you will feel more vibrant and this will lead to positive day ahead. While you at it, try to sing a little. This simple procedure will bring huge differences into your life.

Self-Discipline

Elbert Hubbard once defined self-discipline as the "ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."

If passion can be define as the fuel for any person to succeed, self discipline is the engine that maximise the fuel to gear towards success. A passion without self discipline is like a car running wild without any self control. A person who have self discipline will be more productive and will not let any distraction hampers his way to success. They tend to be more organised and more proactive in handling things that matters the most.

Continuous learning

"Continuous learning is the absolute requirement for success in any field." The reason I say this is because the only moment in time when you are not learning is when you are dead. We start learning the moment we are born into this world. Everything that we venture for the first time has a learning curve. Whether they are playing sports, learning musical instruments or starting in a new job has its own learning curve. Successful people will always try to learn as much as they could in their new field and speed up their learning curve in order to become competent. While, people who fails usually has less patient and tend to quit early. By staying focus and adopting a continuous learning attitude, you can excel in any field you choose as long as you can withstand the learning curve barrier.