I had a really good Economics teacher in high school who explained the Japanese business model, Kai’zen to us and it really stuck with me.

The philoophy of Kai’zen is to make small progress each day and occasional large jumps forward (i.e. innovations). This is a guiding philosophy of Japanese manufacturing which is second to none in regards to quality.

I look at my life the same way. I try to make small improvements each day in certain areas either through study, mindful practice, or comcerted effort and over time, my quality of life improves quite dramatically.

In regards to whether my life is as I thought it would be a year ago, yes and no. Yes in that things have improved in some areas, but I there is always things that I would like to be better at and it can be frustrating to not make progress on those things.

I will keep up my Kai’zen attitude though and this will hopefully guide me to lefelong learning.

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