改 善

A PRACTICAL AND POWERFUL WAY TO TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS AND YOUR LIFE and IT’S SO SIMPLE, YOU PROBABLY WILL NOT DO IT!

It’s true, this is so simple you may not do it. It’s the idea of ‘advancing‘ yourself, your business and your life in such small ways, that are so effortless, you will not even notice it’s happening and the outcome is that you really WILL move forward to your freedom.

Advancing Yourself in small, effortless ways is an ancient philosophy that stems back Centuries and Transcends Cultures.

In Japan ‘advancing yourself’ is known as Kaizen ( 改 Kai meaning changed and 善 Zen meaning good).  It is a philosophy that focuses on continuous improvement throughout all aspects of life. When applied to the corporate workplace, Kaizen activities continually improve all functions of a business, from manufacturing to management and from the CEO to the assembly line workers. By improving standardized activities and processes, Kaizen aims to eliminate waste. In modern times, Kaizen was implemented in several Japanese businesses including Toyota during the country’s recovery after World War II and has since spread to businesses throughout the world.  Entrepreneurs and Employees alike are challenged to improve their processes and working environment little by little … over time.

In Chinese, “advancing yourself“ is known as Gai San (pronounced Gai San):  Gai= The action to correct. San= is more related to the Taoism or Buddhism Philosophy of ’benefits for many that can be sustained forever’.  In other words the ’san’ is an act that can truly benefit others. 

The effects of Kaizen invokes a desire for a process of continuous improvement.  For web business owners and entrepreneurs the act of advancing yourself (one small activity at a time) means building sustainable business and revenue models over a period of time that will produce an ongoing source of income to provide for our families and ultimating LIVE and LEAVE our LEGACY! 

This concept applies not just to your business, but your relationships, personal pursuits, interests and hobbies – every aspect of your life.  That includes sports too. In 2009 the Pelican Rapids Boys’ Basketball team coach adopted the concept of Kaizen and taught it to each of his team boys.  They went on that year to win the national title.  A movie has been made about it.  Here is their movie trailer called, of course ‘Kaizen’:

How Do You Get Started?

This Philosophy is so simple, so powerful and so practical, you really do risk not doing it.  Kaizen is indeed a way of life – one that will help you transform your life and create those added experiences, possessions and achievements you want and desire.

Being able to continuously improve or advance yourself one small activity at a time lies in being ritualistic about it.  It’s developing a ritual of doing small activities that form part of what will move you forward.  For example, in your web business, create a ritual to do one new, small activity each week that will form part of your long term business evolvement.  You can start a new article for your blog, extend your keyword research for your meta tags, split test a headline, make a quick promotional video, etc. .  The ritual of doing small activities like these add up to growing and evolving your business over time … and you’ll barely notice the effort day by day but in a year or two, your business web site for example will have grown in its depth and volume and value to your marketplace and to a potential buyer, should you wish to sell it. 

There’s a significant other valuable result of the effects of Kaizen.  A ritual of doing small activities on a regular (daily) basis will give you momentum, often spoken in business and life as ‘being on a roll’.  Momentum is an essential ingredient to improve your business and your life. 

By completing small activities on a regular basis you also create mini milestones.  This will raise your belief and your energy will be uplifted as you become more inspired.  You WILL  then break through.

There are 8 Steps to the process of Kaizen:

1.  Select a Project – this could a process, a task or a step you need to take

2.  Understand current situations- could include clarity on what you are currently working on and why

3.  Analyze data for root causes- could include current skill and proficiency levels

4.  Establish counter-measures- could include what to change, what education to seek, what to outsource

5. Implement counter-measures- includes taking appropriate action to completion

6.  Confirm the effect- objectively identify and observe the improvement/s

7.  Standardize- make permanent changes to practices and procedures

8.  Review and Repeat the Previous Steps- “rinse and repeat”

IT WOULD BE REALLY EASY TO DISMISS THIS CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WORK AND WELL, IT DOESN’T SOUND SEXY … SO …

What’s the Potential?     

You do not ‘wake up’ one day in the future with everything done to perfection in your beautiful new life.  It happens gradually and small piece or small achievement by small achievement.  Now you can give your small achievements a context and plan your activities to grow your business and improve your life, small piece by small piece.   No need to conquer great mountains, simply continue to take  one small step at a time forward, using the concept and principals of Kaizen.

ONE SMALL STEP AT A TIME WILL HELP YOU GET YOUR MOMENTUM – AND THAT GIVES YOU FLOW – AND FLOW HELPS YOU MOVE FORWARD TO YOUR FREEDOM.

What have you done today to advance yourself?  Now it’s time CELEBRATE IT!  TURN UP THE VOLUME, LET’S CELEBRATE WHAT YOU’VE DONE TODAY TO MAKE YOU FEEL PROUD!.  COME ON … BELT IT OUT BABY, I’m singing with you!

Celebrate Kaizen in Your Life, cause you’re only small steps away from your ultimate life.  I’ve got you the words to this powerful, dynamic song.  Print them out, stick them on your office wall, carry them with you in a journal – EVERYTIME you make a small step to advancing yourself, you can reward yourself.

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY TO MAKE YOU FEEL PROUD

(Heather Small – how appropriate, small steps)

I look into the window of my mind
Reflections of the fears I know I’ve left behind
I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can’t stop me now
And you can do the same

What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It’s never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?

Still so many answers I don’t know
Realise that to question is how we grow
So I step out of the ordinary
I can feel my soul ascending
I am on my way
Can’t stop me now
And you can do the same

What have you done today to make you feel proud?
It’s never too late to try
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
You could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
What have you done today to make you feel proud?

We need a change
Do it today
I can feel my spirit rising
We need a change
So do it today
‘Cause I can see a clear horizon

What have you done today to make you feel proud?
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
‘Cause you could be so many people
If you make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today to make you feel proud?
What have you done today
You could be so many people?
Just make that break for freedom
So what have you done today to make you feel proud?

I found this video with the words too so you can watch them online anytime (just bookmark this page)

I love what this song is about. What have you done today to make yourself proud? Only you can do that for yourself. Put one foot in front of the other and you are bound to move forward … even if it is falling forward!

Please leave your comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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 ATTENTION POWERFUL, BEAUTIFUL WOMEN FRIENDS

Even if it’s not International Womens Day today, Join me in making today AWESOME – I’m feeling INVINCIBLE ’cause I started MY day with this 3 minute Meditation- Join me!

COME ON … JOIN ME … LET ME HEAR YOU ROAR!

Can you hear those applause?  They are for YOU!

(Can you see the conviction in her eyes and voice as she sings “I am Strong …”?)

CRANK UP THE VOLUME AND BELT IT OUT BABY!!  I’m singing it with you.

The United Nations declared 1975 ”International Year of the Women”.  They chose this as the theme song.  And it’s lived on for today’s younger generations of women too, who know you really can have everything you’ve ever wanted, because you now have the power to get it.

Imagine the ‘walls and blocks’ Helen Reddy and many other leading business women would have faced back 30+ years ago.  We are alive at an amazing time for women – it’s up to each one of us to embrace our authentic power and beauty and share our message, through the love and energy women naturally possess and make, live and leave our legacy.  And it’s equally important to support, encourage and empower one another.  Our way, I believe, really can heal the world.

 Notice the conviction in this woman’s eyes and voice (you’ll want that too) when she/you declares  …. “I am Strong, I am Invincible, I am Woman”

Here are those powerful, meaningful words (print them out, carry them with you, stick them on the wall, remind yourself YOU ARE INVINCIBLE).

I AM WOMAN (Helen Reddy and Ray Burton)

I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
‘Cause I’ve heard it all before And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again

Oh yes, I am wise But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price But look how much I gained
If I have to I can do anything
I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

You can bend but never break me ‘Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer ‘Cause you’ve deepened the conviction in my soul

Oh, yes, I am wise But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

I am woman watch me grow See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin’ arms across the land
But I’m still an embryo With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh, yes, I am wise But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

Oh, I am woman I am invincible I am strong

I am woman I am invincible I am strong I am woman

In 2006 Vanessa Amorosi (Australia’s No 1 Rock Chic) honoured “I am Woman” with her rendition as Helen Reddy accepted induction into Australia’s (ARIA) Hall of Fame.:

Make “I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE, I AM WOMAN” as your daily, weekly, monthly mantra too, it will uplift, inspire and excite you.  You really are STRONG and INVINCIBLE … You Are WOMAN!

YOU are a Center of Influence, Power and Love   ….   YOU Are Woman!

Please leave your comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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Have You Ever Met Someone and Immediately You Feel Connected or Disconnected to Them?

Have you ever walked into a room full of people and without anyone saying a word, you sensed the mood? After receiving a warm hug, have you felt like a huge burden was lifted? You were experiencing the power of their energy (also known as Hado).

” The word ‘Hado’ may be new to our ears, but it has existed in the Japanese language for centuries. Literally translated, it means wave motion or vibration. Within the past few decades hado has been spoken of in the context of philosophy, science and quantum physics. More recently, the definition has expanded into the spiritual realm to express the healing properties and transformative powers of this life-force energy.” – Toyoko Matsuzaki

Hado is everywhere. It’s in you, your house, your office, your plants, your water, even your computer. And everyone and everything, including your pets, your wood floors, and the mug on your desk act as an antenna to receive it. After circulating inside the body or innate materials, hado returns to the atmosphere around you.

I want to introduce you to Dr Masuru Emoto, a Researcher based in Japan who has dedicated his life to creating hado experiences with water and photographing the condition of the water to compare its look when exposed to different energies or feelings, given to it by people’s thoughts and written messages they have prepared (and their energy or Hado).

Here’s a segment from a documentary called “What the Bleep Do We Know“ – it will shock and surprise you.  In this segment, the power messages have on water is explained.

Dr Emoto says “Hado is the intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter, the smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness.”

So what does this all mean to your web success and life?  Well, there is intrinsic energy in everything that we do, including our online communcations.

People pick up on that energy and move towards or away from you.  Just because you’re on the net does not mean your energy is not transmitted – think about that email you received that you did not like because of it’s ‘tone’ or that Facebook message that affected you negatively or perhaps positively.  Well those words that you expose other people too are a reflection of your feelings, which connects to your energy or hado and you’ll either attract or repel people from your business depending on the state of your hado.  It’s the unspoken word if you like.

Every time you commit words to the screen or paper in the offline world, you’re transmitting an energy and that energy impacts how other people will react to you.  Working on keeping your energy well and restoring your wellbeing is so very important to helping you create the success you desire in your web business and your life.  And so I wanted to share this news with you so you can learn and grow to take greater control of your Hado – so we can work and play together on the beaches of the world!

WHERE DO YOU START?

Firstly, connect with the idea.  One of the best ways to connect with an idea that you can integrate in to your thoughts immediately is through meditation.  I dont mean you have to lie down in a dark room or anything like that, but moreso to sit up straight in your chair, relax your shoulders, take 3 deep breaths in and out and begin a process of self control.

Then watch this beautiful video of the power of messages for water.  It’s set to music and shows the crystallisation of water after it has been exposed to messages communicated to it.  The contrast between the condition of water that received healing and loving messages versus those exposed to messages of hatred are quite astonishing, remarkable even – but more importantly, this could be a representation of the condition of water in our bodies, depending on the messages we are receiving (and giving).

Watch it again if you want to, it only runs for a few minutes.  Come back here and watch it as often as you want to, you will become re-energized and realigned to your purpose of raising Hado for yourself and others and will cope better with the challenges life seems to be able to serve up to us everyday.  Remember,  our bodies are made up of majority water (about 90%).

We can impact the condition of the water in our body like we can impact the condition of water in a petri dish.  This means Our Thoughts can Control our Physical Condition … and our Physical Condition affects our Emotional and Intellectual state, infact they cycle around and with one another.

As I grasped this concept and was willing to accept this was possibly true, I started to observe the impact my thoughts about myself was having on my physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.  I also began to change the ‘tone’ and languauge used on my websites, I improved the underlying message of my words so they impacted better on people and I opened myself up … and even started using words like Love in my written communications and website (this did not come easy for me as containment of emotions was a protection mechanism I was using for many years – but of course only feeding the fear of rejection and judgement and in return, this reflected in a  bad body condition).  I opened up and shared … and people began to respond with their love and so I became part of the experience of an upward cycle of improved Hado.

Thanks to Social Engines like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and even this blog, I can (and you can) get feedback that’s pretty immediate about how our words are accepted by others and the impact our words have on them.

Something I learned that unlocked great riches in my life and I believe can unlock great riches in your life too:

“To improve your own life, bring positive change to others.”

I believe we can consciously program our mind to receive and then transmit to our body the messages we want it to accept.  When we get our Hado for ourselves right, in our body and our business, we can start to help and affect others in a positive way, and they will respond by exchanging the Hado you provide for their money.  In other words, people will want to do business with you because your Hado helps them — or if you do not look at aligning your thoughts in a positive way, they will repel your Hado.

What do you think?

Please leave your comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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WANT TO ATTRACT MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT?

If you believe the way you think and feel affects how you act, then what I’m about to share will have extra meaning for you - it’s a poem to music and images called  “The Warriors Prayer” by Stuart Wilde.  This man helped transform my financial consciousness and life from negative, broke & careless to energized, inspired & focussed.

I have used many of Stuart Wilde’s teachings many times.  Now I want to share some more of that with you.  In this poem, there is a brilliant meditation and affirmation to help realign you with your center or core and help you keep on track to giving the best you can inorder to receive the best you can. So play the video and … Enjoy, with Love!

I find this affirmation and realigning meditation most helpful and have it printed on a lovely piece of paper.  I carry it with me as I travel the world. 

When ever I encounter a situation that is ‘unhealthy’ to my energy, focus and pursuits, I reflect and realign by reading this out to myself a couple of times.  So here it is, for you to print out too.  Carry it with you, stick it on the wall or even better frame and hang it in your office or home or carry it with you in your diary, like I do.  Enjoy, with Love!

THE WARRIOR’S PRAYER

by Stuart Wilde

I am what I am.
    – In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust.
    – In softness I have strength.
    – In silence I walk with the gods.
    – In peace I understand myself and the world.
    – In conflict I walk away.
    – In detachment I am free.
    – In respecting all living things, I respect myself. 
    – In dedication I honour the courage within me.
    – In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all things.
    – In love I unconditionally accept the evolution of others.
    – In freedom I have power. 
    – In my individuality, I express the God-Force within me.
    – In service I give of what I have become.
 I am what I am:
       Eternal, Immortal, Universal, and Infinite. 
And so be it.

Please leave your comments and feedback below. 

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow. 

With love, Jen xo

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Napoleon Hill says “Whatever the Mind Can Conceive and Believe, it Can Achieve”

Sounds great … but where do we start?

Many people, like you and me hear quotes like the one above and because we are never taught the insights I want to share with you right now in this article, we assume Conceive and Believe equals imaging success and ‘things’ and then if you’ve heard about “The Secret” (who hasn’t), you think (and rightfully so), “Oh ok, this relates to the Law of Attraction.  Well in part you are almost right, but your ability to Achieve what you desire goes much deeper than that and infact, the process of Conceive and Believe actually has a physical brain and scientific aspect to it.  And that’s what I want to share with you today – not just the Art of getting what you want, but the Science connected to it too …

“Your NECK-TOP COMPUTER is the single most powerful tool you will ever use to create the future you really want.”

Your Reticular Activating System is an Automated Filter for Your Brain.

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