One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way
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Improve your life fearlessly with this essential guide to kaizen—the art of making great and lasting change through small, steady steps. The philosophy is simple: Great change is made through small steps. And the science is irrefutable: Small steps circumvent the brain's built-in resistance to new behavior. No matter what the goal—losing weight, quitting smoking, writing a novel, starting an exercise program, or meeting the love of your life—the powerful technique of kaizen is the way to achieve it. Written by psychologist and kaizen expert Dr. Robert Maurer, One Small Step Can Change Your Life is the simple but potent guide to easing into new habits—and turning your life around. Learn how to overcome fear and procrastination with his 7 Small Steps—including how to Think Small Thoughts, Take Small Actions, and Solve Small Problems—to steadily build your confidence and make insurmountable-seeming goals suddenly feel doable. Dr. Maurer also shows how to visualize virtual change so that real change can come more easily. Why small rewards lead to big returns. And how great discoveries are made by paying attention to the little details most of us overlook. His simple regiment is your path to continuous improvement for anything from losing weight to quitting smoking, paying off debt, or conquering shyness and meeting new people. Rooted in the two-thousand-year-old wisdom of the Tao Te Ching—“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”—here is the way to change your life without fear, without failure, and start on a new path of easy, continuous improvement.
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Livre très intéressant sur une méthode pour provoquer des changements drastiques dans sa vie sans se sentir dépassé par les actions à entreprendre. Il se lit rapidement et permet des points d'actions psychologiques dans des domaines extrêmement différents. Un remède très simple contre la procrastination !
I got a copy of this from Dr. Maurer himself, who lives in Spokane. He's a very talented clinician, and has skillfully condensed his approach into this great little book. This is self-help that is practical, not platitude-filled. The steps are straightforward, compassionately-described, and evidence-based. I use it with patients often, and also often reflect on its wisdom in my own life.
Kaizen is an approach to making changes by small steps - teeny, tiny ones if necessary. The idea is to overcome nature resistance, fear, procrastination and other obstacles to dramatic change by making changes so small they don't provoke fear or resistance. By taking the small steps, repeating them for a while if necessary to start a habit, the difficulty of starting on the path to change goes away because the small steps have started you on the path to change.
An easy read, accessible and more matter of fact than preachy (a danger for books on self-improvement). While it's simple, there is depth to the suggested approach and the author cites numerous examples of personal and organizational change he has seen and/or helped bring about with these methods.
