Incremental Improvements

A more positive vocabulary

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he

It’s an aphorism that explains the condition of man. He is who he thinks he is. His character, his identity and his perspective with respect to circumstances around him are all dependent on his thoughts.

Be patient

One of the biggest issues I’ve had to cope with is the absence of immediate rewards. Not seeing success right away when you’ve placed your efforts in can sometimes be anxiety-inducing. Sometimes the wait to be disappointed is even worse than the feeling of disappointment itself.

Feedback

For the longest time, I was one of those people who take a long time to be satisfied with his/her work. I would not let others see what I am up to. Maybe, it was the fear of being judged or being seen as inadequate. It took much time and effort working in the dark basement workshop until I came out with…

Sugar? ‘No’ please.

The more I’m trying to make myself aware about my own health and reducing my sugar intake, the more I am hearing about the cons of sugar. I was watching the first episode of the third season of Netflix’s Chef’s Table again (this episode for the third time). It’s my favourite one of the series…

Reassessment

Nothing is set in stone, at least in what we’ve decided about the world and ourselves. Our plans should never be rigid and systems that we devise should evolve and shed parts that do not work anymore.

It really helps to take a step back and view everything from an overhead…

War is deception

A little late in putting this post in today but it’s got to be the 8th somewhere in the world still, right?

I have been slowly reading the Art of War for a while now and I truly believe that there’s a lot of value in every page that I’ve read so far. There is a lot of…

What and where is success?

If you’ve reached a certain age in life, maybe up until around your early 20’s, you’d have come across or might have even formed your own definition of what success looks like. More money, a great career, owning properties, being able to tick off your travel bucket list, or…

Hard Boundaries

Getting used to a more regulated way of eating, I have been able to focus and be conscious of how I eat lately. Ever since the switch to smaller bowls and reduction in pop, I was also noticing other things that I just so easily ignored before.

Bottlenecks

I spent a great deal of time learning, implementing, and thinking about bottlenecks as I went through my Lean Six Sigma immersion in 2013. In any system with some form of complexity, there are variabilities and inherent differences in performance. In simpler terms, different parts of any system will always…