Small easy changes

I'm always trying to think about how to do things an easier and if possible a more fun way. So when I think of someone trying to accomplish a major task, like say quitting smoking or losing weight....I think what would be an easier way? Then I remembered hearing about the Japanese management concept of 'Kaisen'. Kaisen means, continuous small improvements.
Small changes are a lot easier than big changes and faster to implement.

"a series of small successes
very quickly builds the confidence
to tackle the bigger goals"

So I'm thinking if you wanted to quit smoking, how about determining how many cigarettes you smoke in a day. Let's say that you smoke 30 per day. Now with the Kaisen approach you would not try and quit cold turkey, you would smoke one less cigarette per day. In 30 days you are a 'non smoker'. Makes sense right?

So what other changes could you make by using this Kaisen theory? Let's imagine you wanted to write a book? If you just committed to write a page per day, that would be a small, easy step towards your end goal. Of course, after writing a page you might feel inclined to write a little extra and very soon you would be moving surprisingly quickly towards the end objective.
With small easy steps there is no reason to not get started. Getting started on a big project is what holds most of us up in the first place.

Let's just not tell the women in our life about this concept when it comes to doing projects around the house!

Eduardo