Eating an Elephant

There's an old, old joke - how do you eat an elephant?  One bite at a time.

The latest book I've read is One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer, PhD.  It's an interesting book based on the premise of Kaizen. 

Kaizen is the Japanese term for 'eating an elephant one bite at a time'.  The premise is - no problem is so very big that it can't be solved one very small step at a time.

Overweight & don't have time to exercise?  Start by marching in front of your TV for one minute per day.  Just one minute.  Per day.

Doesn't sound like much & it's not.  But if you get used to doing one minute per day for a week, then you get your brain used to exercising for one minute.  So the alarm bells & red flags & other warnings don't go off in your brain that you're exercising for crying out loud.

Then you can bump things up to marching in place for a whole commercial break.  Then for a whole show.  And the next thing you know, you're exercising & you haven't freaked out once.

So this is my homage to solving BIG problems one very small step at a time.

Try it, you just might like it.

Papillon