With this guide, you will gain a powerful skill that can transform your life—quickly and profoundly. You’ll begin to notice real results within just a month. The ideas in this guide are drawn from the philosophies of Kung Fu and Tai Chi, along with the modern philosophy of Kaizen, which played a key role in Japan’s economic transformation.
Kaizen is the practice of continuous, incremental improvement. Rather than overwhelming you with an entire book, this simple illustration is all you need to understand and apply its core principle.
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.
