Keep improving
Treat life as art, be an artist always improving on what you do.
We are the artist carving our life from a raw block of stone. It is fun to continuously improve on everything we do in life.
Life is what we make of it, we are the artist creating our life each moment of the day. Life is our art, and all that we do is a process that is creating that art. The artist is always refining their process, improving upon their art, a creative life is one that is always improving. Regardless of your current life you can improve your life for the better each new day.
Prosperity is a goal of many, that of being happy, healthy and abundant; a goal which is a state of being that each individual creates through every thought, word and action of each day in harmony with self, others and nature. Each individual follows a process in which to achieve their goals, this process can always be improved upon.
David Kanigan in his blog “The Relentless Reviser” mentioned the concept of Kaizen. Meaning in Japanese “good change” Kaizen is better described in English as “continuous improvement”. By following Kaizen each individual reviews their life processes in relation to their goals looking for small improvements each day which helps them achieve their goals faster, efficiently and effectively. A.T. Bui recently added to this concept of Kaizen in his blog yesterday called “The 80/20 Principle”:
“80% of the people and activities in your life contribute to only 20% of its value, while a select 20% of people and activities contribute to 80% of its value.”
In other words 80% of your life is junk that won’t help you in achieving your goals. Through Kaizen you can review your life processes in relation to your goals and remove some of this junk that hinders your goals. For example television rarely can be considered a useful tool to being happy, healthy and abundant; it eats into your time, dumping toxic rubbish into your brain; eliminating the television is like removing junk under the 80/20 principle and works to make it easier to achieve your goals as an improvement of your life processes under Kaizen.
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- Tagged: 80/20 principle, goals, improvement, junk, kaizen, processes, prosperity
[ Smiles ] Another great article, Alex.
Everyone should make the effort to improve their lives and television is definitely not an effective way of doing it!
I have had no television for many years, never regretted my decision to get rid of it.
Great post and couldn’t agree more about the TV ….. We carry so much junk around with us as excess baggage of trivia created by thinking we need this or that, as we plug into the mind numbing hypnotising adverts that the media throws down our unblinking open mouthed glazed minds…
Lets hope we all keep improving Alex as we refine our skills as a human being..
Hi Sue, the television serves one purpose to sell advertising, and they are highly effective in placing need in our brains for junk.
Hi Alex, I must say. I always find your blog in tune with my own thoughts and ideas 99% of the time. I am catching up online today. I have fallen out of my “blogging routine” I have mostly been using the WP mobile app and I find it lacking in so many ways. I cannot see photos properly, nor can I comment half of the time. I am going to make sure to start using WP online more.
I always like reading your blog. WP keeps improving its service so perhaps it will make it easier for you in the future. Let the blog serve you and cut back on posting if it is too much. I am now in a busy cycle with my business so I may be missing the odd day for blogging.
Television is the great wasteland of junk. I am so thankful I don’t have one any more. It’s not just the shows but the news. For example, I am not Catholic, but had someone come to me telling me all about the news that the Pope was resigning. I stopped for a moment and realized if I still watched TV news I’d be watching all this stuff that had no bearing on my life. While knowing what is going on in the world 24/7 feeds of the Pope’s decision doesn’t help my life any.
The are alternative ways of finding out the news via Twitter or WordPress, if it is important enough then people will talk about it. I am sure like me your life has been enhanced without the television. Great to see another person free from the enslavement of television.
It’s wonderful to ‘see’ so many talking about how great it is to have no television. When I first started blogging, I wrote a post about the life, in terms of time, spent, or more exactly, wasted. People should consider reading and listening or even playing music, far superior to the inactivity of watching television.
That is good advice seapunk