arabera Mindomo Team 4 years ago
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Honelako gehiago
The six strategies of Kaizen all focus on continuously making small efforts to change behavior by circumventing our natural flight response. These strategies work at work and at home and for anyone.
The small moments are the moments that bring happiness to one´s life. Live in the present and focus on small gestures. It is one´s task in life to find happiness and significance in every moment. Children are the perfect example. They play, learn and grow in the moment, without worrying about the future or regretting the past.
Small rewards can motivate to continue new learned behavior. The best rewards are free, like spending time on a hobby. Should fit with your goal and should fit the person who receives it.
Don´t wait with solving a problem until it has become a real problem, but learn how to recognize small things that can lead to problems in the future. Small irritations today could lead to huge irritations in the future. It might be easier to act on that today, than it is in the future.
Starting a new routine can be done with starting only one minute per day, which familiarizes your brain with the new activity.
By simply thinking about your response in a certain situation beforehand, you can prevent the flight mode in an unexpected difficult situation.
Asking questions helps to overcome fear, and therefore the flight response. One should not be anxious about finding the answers though, a creative answer pops up automatically after a day or two, or even after just a good night sleep.
Why? The answer lies in the way our brains are built.
Brain consist of at least three parts: the brainstem, the midbrain (amygdala) and the cerebral.
-The brainstem is the automatic pilot of our body, which takes care of functions like breathing and sleeping.
-The midbrain (amygdala) is our survival instinct, our fight of flight response. --The third part, the cerebral, includes our creative abilities.
Each part of the brain has different response times. The brainstem will response the fastest, followed by the midbrain, and only after that, the cerebral will respond to outside stimulus.
This means our creativity can only be accessed when the stimulus does not bring out fear in our midbrain. By implementing small changes at a time, the flight response, which blocks creativity, can be circumvented.
"Gratitude is often considered an element of spirit or purpose. But what are we expected to be grateful for? Innovation calls for financial gains, promotions, and possessions to stoke the fires of gratitude. But Kaizen invites us to be grateful for health, for our next breath, for the moments with a friend or colleague."
"Service is even an essential aspect of the business applications of kaizen. Each employee in a kaizen culture is asked to look each day for ways to improve the process or product, always in the service of costumer."
