"SMALL" make sense?

Book Review: "One Small Step Can Change Your Life" by Robert Maurer, Ph.D

To begin with, a year ago I started searching and reading books online in my free time. As a newbie to book reading, I used to have a lot of eagerness to read tons of books, in the process many books I started with eagerness, but in the long run, that eagerness went up in smoke. One fine day, in my online book surfing routine, my eyes caught on one particular book cover.

" One Small Step Can Change Your Life - THE KAIZEN WAY". And here starts my journey towards KAIZEN WAY. 

In this fast-paced world, we are running with technology, and we forget to take small steps, We want big results and want to take big steps as fast as possible. Okay, let me exemplify with a day-to-day life situation we see and some of us do. One of my friends, a movie buff, watches at least 2 movies on weekdays, and coming to the weekend she takes it 3-4 a day. She wants to watch in 2x speed, she feels normal speed is lagging. She feels like 2x speed as normal speed. In a similar way, all of us are running in a 2x speed race. In everything we are looking for things to happen at  2x speed, whether at work, personal life, or health. But wait

Take a breathe

Does doing things at 2x speed really make sense?

Aren't you feeling enervated, sucked up, lazy, or unaccomplished in anything after running with 2x speed in anything you do?

If your answer is YES for at least one thing just like I said YES to this question, then definitely this is the book for you

Hold on and think about these words for a second

Small questions

Small thoughts

Small ideas

Small actions 

Small problems

Small rewards

Small moments

Small amounts

Do all the words coined with "SMALL" make sense?

Here is our author who exemplifies how taking Small steps leads to WIN-WIN moments- like asking small questions, thinking small thoughts, taking small actions, solving small problems, bestowing small rewards, and identifying small moments. He takes a chapter for each of these, but I'm just going to entice you with a few cherries from each chapter for reflection.

• "Like all the best things in life, small steps are free. And since they take only a minute or two of your time, they can fit into any schedule."

• "Your brain loves questions and won't reject them... unless the question is so big it triggers fear."

• "Kaizen questions such as "What's the smallest step I can take to be more efficient?" ... allow us to bypass our fears."

• "When we are trying to make a change, it can be tempting to ignore the subtle warning signs, ones that say: Something's wrong here. You need to slow down, retrace your steps, and investigate. But if we continue to avoid these small problems, they will grow and grow until we create a mess so spectacular that we are required to stop the assembly line of change, announce a recall, and proceed with the painful and time-consuming process of undoing the now-big mistake."

• "Small rewards encourage internal motivation"

• "Focusing on small moments is both easy and hard to do. I am reminded of how easy it is when I watch children play and learn. They are absolutely focused at the moment, so able to take pleasure and be absorbed in their activities and their friends."

One of the things I enjoyed the most about this book is the "Kaizen Technique" at the end of the chapters. Interesting is that you can start reading from wherever you want, for sure you get SENSE of SMALL STEPS, for sure you are going to complete the book. And this book personally guided me in N ways to take small actions. One in N ways is writing these blogs are part of my kaizen approach. Definitely, this is a must-read one from my side.

Couldn't agree more with  "Small steps lene se phark padata hai".