One Small Step Can Change Your Life by Robert Maurer is today’s must-give book.

The concept of small, steady change to dramatically improve your life is best illustrated through the concept of Kaizen. Kaizen is Japanese term for continuous improvement is a tried and true concept in business, that the author and psychologist, Robert Maurer, applied to his psychology patients with dramatic and lasting results.

Kaizen is so effective because the ridiculously small steps you take to build new habits or destroy bad habits circumvent the brain’s built-in resistance to new behavior.

I have plenty of bad habits, but the poor health habit that has nagged at me the most over the years is that I have never been consistent with flossing. I don’t want my teeth to fall out, but I can’t seem to will myself into flossing every day. Usually I just floss for about 3 weeks before my dental cleaning so I don’t get scolded, then fall back into my old bad habits again.

If you follow the concept of Kaizen and you’re trying to build the habit of flossing every day, you would start by just taking a piece of floss and just placing it on your counter. Then after doing that for a week, maybe you floss one tooth. Then 2 teeth, and continue to build, one ridiculous step at a time. You might build the habit gradually, one painless step at a time, until one day you’re flossing your whole mouth!

That’s it for today!  Thanks for listening, but I need to go floss 4 teeth now.

Tomorrow we’re going to talk about the must-read for everyone in business.

My name is Ashley Micciche and this is the One Minute Retirement Tip.

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