As Marie Kondo has said, "The term kaizen refers to incremental progress toward your goal . . . . You can take the first small step toward your dream today and keep taking small steps to grow your passions every day after."
Making a lifestyle change can be overwhelming. It's hard to achieve big goals, and it's even harder to do so without being overcome with self-doubt. But achieving our goals--and pursuing our passions--needn't be a strenuous activity. Kaizen is the way We can start making incremental, positive changes right away without the pressure of immediate, perfect results. It's the power of magical thinking, which is needed to stick to the goals we set for ourselves.
This stunning book offers a way to build good habits and remove bad ones. It teaches us how use the Japanese method of kaizen to institute step-by-step changes that are tailored to us, instead of changing ourselves to fit the method. It focuses on mindful patience--developing an awareness of when things aren't working--so that we can adapt our actions instead of giving up. Kaizen demonstrates how to apply kaizen to our health, home, work, finances, relationships, and habits in general.
Kaizen is a flexible and accessible approach, and kaizen will mean something different to each reader. The very nature of kaizen is that each person's experience will be unique, though the end result will be the same: lasting, positive improvement.