With this guide, you will gain a superpower to change your life drastically and instantly. You will start seeing results in just a month. This guide is extracted from the philosophy of Kung Fu, Tai Chi, and another modern philosophy—Kaizen—which helped reform Japan economically.
Kaizen refers to incremental improvements. Instead of reading a whole book, this little illustration will suffice for your understanding of it.
First one has more chance to reach the top than second, isn’t it?
So to start implementing Kaizen right away on your supposed ambition, you have to ask yourself this question:
“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to achieve my goal?”
Remember that this tiny thing shouldn’t be hard—just a small effort. Kaizen was derived from the philosophy of both Kung Fu and Tai Chi.
Tai Chi tells you to be like water and to be soft. As water scrapes away hills over a long period of time, we must constantly repeat our tiny actions to achieve our goals. Kung Fu tells the same thing: to master something through repeated action. However, it doesn’t talk about softness. That’s the fundamental difference between Kung Fu and Tai Chi.
The problem now is choosing your path. To apply Kaizen to your life, you first have to know where you’re going. This is where the practice of entrepreneurs comes in. Have you noticed how entrepreneurs always target problems? We will do the same thing.
“Be really good at solving your problems. Then become really good at solving others’ problems. Then you’ll be successful.”
Let’s take a blender and mix all these philosophies together. What we get is this holy grail question:
**The Holy Grail Question:
“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to fix all my problems?”**
Now all you need is a list of your problems—things that bother you. Arrange the list based on priority, then keep asking this Holy Grail Question to yourself as much as you can. It’s your choice whether you focus on one problem or all at once.
We can add a bit of Stoicism to our philosophy and adjust our question slightly:
“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to fix all my problems that can be fixed by myself?”
This helps filter out problems you don’t have control over, like love and relationships. However, let’s keep our statement simple:
“What’s the little thing that I can do right now to fix all my problems?”
Thank you.
