The Kaizen approach (Japanese for “improvement” or “change for the better”) is a philosophy for daily, incremental, improvement. The Kaizen approach was first brought into Japanese businesses after the second world war by the Americans.  The idea is to improve process and quality management by eliminating waste, thus improving time management. In Japanese companies that use the Kaizen principles, it is the...

We have all had times when anger was our response to a given situation, we were unable to keep control.   If you review the event you can usually pick out the trigger that made you lose control.  Often this will be an interruption of some sort, or perhaps a courtesy is not acknowledged.  Imagine: Your on a car journey and while discussing the route, with your wife, the kids in the back keep asking the old favourite “are we nearly...

I caught myself being extremely rude and un-thoughtful towards my wife Sian the other day by I talking over her in mid conversation and then steering the conversation off at a tanget.   I thought it was time to be a better me and remembered something I had previoulsy read that I had thought at the time was a way of going about being a better person. I can’t remember where I read it, and this is taken from my notes at the time and is...

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When it is time for you to leave the Armed Forces you need to plan ahead.  By this I mean what is your future going to be?  Not what you are going to do for the next few years, but what are you going to do with your life? Napoleon Hill puts it like this: What is your one definite purpose in life – and what plans have you made to attain it? If you ask 100 people that question, ninety eight of them will answer with something along...

Many of us want the same two things out of life – Happiness & Success. However, all of us are different, your idea of success is almost certainly different to mine.  But there is one factor which is the same for all of us. One thing that we must all deal with if we are to achieve happiness  and  success, and that is dealing other people. There have been various studies, which have proven you will get 85% of the way to...