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Incremental Steps Add Up to Big Gains
What is Kaizen?
Kaizen Versions of These Programs: |
Kaizen is the Japanese word for the principle of continual improvement through small, incremental steps. The idea is to take small steps in an ongoing evolution of improvement. Implied in the principle is that this gradual improvement is ongoing and never ending.
Kaizen a more gentle and “soft” way of making improvement as opposed to seeking to make quicker, bigger and dramatic changes. Sometimes you do need to make that big push for change. Other times the Kaizen principle will get you there just as surely.
When you can’t handle everything that needs to be mastered all at once, when you get overwhelmed by the amount of change needed, or when the time frame for improvement is unrealistic for you, it works best to shift your strategy to the Kaizen principle:
- Narrow your focus to one small step at a time.
- Look toward the long view for change.
- Do what you can do now.
- Reach for only what is within your grasp.
- See the process of improvement as ongoing and a continual part of your life.
At first, it may not seem like much progress is happening, but if you continue day by day reaching for the next step of improvement in your health, wellness and well-being - over the course of weeks, months and years you will have made substantial improvement.
Every day you look at doing the best you can to make continual improvement in your health, wellness, and well-being knowing that you are not reaching for some perfect static end state but rather that you always move toward your desired state of health, wellness, and well-being through simple, continual gradual steps.
Instead of unrealistically expecting a miraculous turn around in accumulated years of neglect, you can embody the notion that every small improvement toward health, wellness, and well-being is a joy to be cherished and celebrated.
As you take these small steps of improvement day after day after day, there will come a point when you will take just one more step and it will be enough to provide the tipping point where “suddenly” the threshold is crossed - and you realize that you are at a whole new level of health, wellness, and well-being.
And at that moment you will also be ready for the next set of gradual, small steps as you continue reaching for more evolutionary improvement in your health, wellness, and well-being.
Anyone can do it. In any situation. For any dream or desire.
How Do I Get Started on a Kaizen Program?
To get set up with any Kaizen Project program, product, or service you can email me at maryann@evenstaronline.com or call 434-263-4996 to schedule a complimentary appointment for us to talk about your unique, individual needs and how we can design an Kaizen approach that is exactly right for you.
Kaizen Extended Programs
Selected programs and services can be adjusted to extend the time and effort required - and ease the financial burden by extending the payments too.
Under the Kaizen Project the programs and services remain essentially the same but you can extend the time you work with these offerings and make smaller payments over a longer period of time.
Kaizen Extended Programs are arranged on an individual basis and require prior approval.
Click the links for the Kaizen Extended Programs for these programs:
Personal Coaching
Vision Quest
Mood and Energy Management Programs
Kaizen "a la Carte" Options
At Evenstar we are committed to an Integral health, wellness, and well-being approach because it works.
Piecemeal steps simply are not as effective. I don’t usually recommend piecemeal approaches because you may experience disappointing results and get discouraged. You cannot expect to get great health, wellness, and well-being with one shot. For that reason most of my work is set up in integral and ongoing programs and services.
However, you can leverage the Kaizen principle and take a series of “one shot” steps that you yourself frame into an integral approach.
For those of you who are doing this on your own, sampling our many programs, services, and tools “a la carte” may serve you well. In that spirit, we offer Kaizen a la Carte. (We don’t just mix metaphors. We mix metaphors translinguistically.)
Click the links for details on all these programs that work well standing on their own.
Mood & Energy Management
Brain Chemistry Optimization Profile
NeuroSelect Profile - the most comprehensive neurotransmitter test panel available.
Interactive Stress Relief Tools
Health and Wellness Programs
Supplement Only Recommendations
Herbal Program Recommendations
Personal Development, Growth, and Evolution - Coaching
Motivational Appraisal of Personal Potential
Read more about Personal Coaching
Sacred Journeys
To make arrangements for a Kaizen “a la Carte” program or service email me at maryann@evenstaronline.com or call 434-263-4996 to schedule a complimentary time so that we can talk about your unique, individual needs and how we can help you.
