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Whether
you want a fitter body, a calmer mind, a raise at work, or a more prolific
writing career, there's no more popular time than now to make life-changing
resolutions. But how do you keep from falling short of your goals at the
end of the year? You may want to try Kaizen, the Japanese art of making
changes so small they may sound absurd.
The Kaizen concept is concerned with gradual improvement in the processes
involved in attaining a particular goal. It's a slower process than which
we are accustomed, but has been shown to make our results longer lasting.
For example, a dieter who wants to lose thirty pounds this year could
begin by committing to exercise ten additional minutes a day. Someone
who wants to improve his financial situation would do well to commit to
saving an extra $10 each week. According to Kaizen, these changes, though
relatively small, add up--and because they're easily attainable, you are
much more likely to stick to your goals.
"It is the magic key to getting where you want," Joanne Mansell,
founder of Australia-based Kaizen Coaching, told Writer's Break. "Kaizen
is to your life what compound interest is to your finances."
Sounds powerful, right? That’s because it is!
Would you like to write a novel's first draft by next December but have
trouble devoting time each day to reaching your goal? Are you intent on
selling more articles in 2004? If so, here are a few incremental changes
you may want to consider:
Add
ten-minutes of writing time to each day. For example, if you normally
write thirty-minutes a day, write for forty. If you write zero presently,
write ten.
Research one new market each week.
Read
half of a writing-related article each day.
Spend
15 more minutes a week networking.
Brainstorm article ideas for 5 minutes a day.
Each
day, read two paragraphs from that writing book you just bought.
Write
one additional chapter of your novel-in-progress each week.
Spend
ten minutes a day cleaning your writing area and organizing your files.
You
may want to try a few of these, or think of changes that better fit your
needs. The idea is to think big but to start small. You're full of optimism
right now and you're setting big goals, but don't lose perspective. Your
life will become busy and it's all too easy to place your goals on the
backburner where you will not think of them again for days, weeks, or
even months. The idea is to begin implementing them now, in small increments.
Once you find these small commitments have become a habit, you may want
to implement small increases. Ten minutes may be traded up for fifteen,
one chapter may become two. Just remember, little things will add up and
morph into bigger things.
Here's to accomplishing big things in 2004, little by little!
Copyright 2004 Jennifer Minar. All Rights Reserved.
Jennifer
Minar is a freelance writer in the writing and health & fitness
markets. She is also the founder & managing editor of Writer's Break
http://www.writersbreak.com,
a web site and ezine for fiction and creative non-fiction writers; and
Industry News @-a-Glance, an ezine for the retail pharmacy industry.
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