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Continuous Improvement Flashcards

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Decide…

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once.

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Do the next…

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best thing.

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Don’t let perfect be…

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the enemy of the good.

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Let your space define…

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what you own.

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Create buffers/margin.

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Time, money, space, etc.

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A daily routine resets…

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your home to a level of basic order.

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Self-control is temporary.

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Environment is more important for long-term habit changing.

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What is measured is…

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improved (or managed).

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Focus more on your _____ than your goals.

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Systems

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Simplifying (habits, home, finances) doesn’t eliminate life’s problems. But it can reduce…

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how far the “pendulum swings” in the wrong direction.

Examples:
Reduces extremes (bad things happen but things don’t get as bad as they could get).
Makes life’s problems easier to handle.

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Curate your…

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life.

Curate - select, organize, and look after items.

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Embrace things you used to…

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run away from.

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13
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Boiling Point

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Sometimes it takes time to get to the boiling point. Every rise in degree matters when boiling water but there won’t be an observable change until it changes from 211 to 212 degrees. Don’t give up early!

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Small steps

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Remember the importance of small steps. Think of the picture on the fridge!

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Kaizen

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Japanese term for “continuous improvement” or “change for the better.”

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If you wait until you feel like doing something…

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you will likely never accomplish it.

John C. Maxwell

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You will never change your life until you change…

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something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

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You can act your way…

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into feeling much quicker than you can feel your way into acting.

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The best preparation for tomorrow is…

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doing your best today.

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe…

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are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be…

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useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness…

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bestowed by a small compliment.

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Only a mediocre person is…

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always at his best.

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What you think means more than…

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anything else in your life.

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If you are depressed you are living…

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in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

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You’re picky about the car you drive, about what you wear, and what you put in your mouth… Be pickier about what you _____.

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Think.

Abraham Hicks

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27
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Philippians 4:8

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And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

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28
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Ecclesiastes 11:6

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Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another - or maybe both.

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Create little “bumpers.”

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Similar to buffers. Absorbs small risks while keeping you clear of catastrophe.

30
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It’s usually much more straightforward to learn from your ________ than your ________.

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Successes, failures. If you succeed you can reasonably assume you made good decisions in your pursuit of the goal. But if you failed, it could be for any number of reasons. It’s unclear exactly what went wrong making it difficult to learn how to improve. Building on what you’re doing right can be more effective than focusing on what you did wrong.

From a TEDEd video

31
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Experience is not what happens to you; it is _______________.

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what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

32
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Relapsing is a part ___________.

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of the process.

33
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When ruminating- don’t ask ______ questions, ask _________ questions.

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Why, what. For example, if you are ruminating about something and asking yourself “why am I such an idiot at this?” stop and ask yourself “what’s one small thing I can do to be better at this?”

34
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Worry works! When you worry, …

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95% of the time nothing happens.

35
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If you are so good at predicting the future, …

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why aren’t you a billionaire? You are wrong your predictions most of the time. Why do you assume you are so right about your fears?

36
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Don’t get as worked up by successes and failures. Successes involve a lot of…

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Trade offs and sacrifices that you didn’t anticipate and lots of headaches that come with achieving your dreams that you didn’t think about. Whereas failures come with lessons and insights that you never would have had otherwise.

37
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If you’re getting anxious about a bunch of stupid, unimportant things, it means…

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You lack an important thing in your life.

38
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Effective people feed…

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Opportunities and starve problems.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People, paraphrased quote from Peter Drucker

39
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What is one thing you could do in your personal or professional life; that if you did on a regular basis, ….

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Would make a tremendous positive difference in your life?

40
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You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your _______.

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Systems

Atomic Habits

41
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Satisfizers do have _______ expectations, but when they’re met they take it and move on. Maximizers have _______ expectations too, but they _______________.

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High expectations.

Maximizers keep trying to find the best, not just something that meets their expectations.

42
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The best we can do is plan for what we want to learn and contribute over the next ________, and stay open to what might come next. An analogy is that writing out a plan for your life is like driving at night in the fog — you can only see as far as your headlights and you can make the whole trip that way.

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Year or two.

Think Again (book)

43
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If we take care of the ________, the _______ will take care of themselves.

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Minutes, years

Benjamin Franklin

44
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Failure is necessary for _______. You have to push yourself to your limit and _____ repeatedly in order to grow.

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Growth, fail.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Be Useful

45
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They hadn’t ruined his life. They had just put him somewhere he didn’t deserve to be and he didn’t _________________.

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Intend to stay there.

The Obstacle is the Way

46
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I might not want this to happen, but I decide _____________. No one else has the right.

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How it will affect me.

The Obstacle is the Way

47
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The 10 Commandments

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  1. You shall have no other gods before me.
  2. You shall make no idols.
  3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
  4. Keep the Sabbath day holy.
  5. Honor your father and your mother.
  6. You shall not murder.
  7. You shall not commit adultery.
  8. You shall not steal.
  9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  10. You shall not covet.

Exodus 20:2-17
Deuteronomy 5:6-21

48
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How much worse are the consequences of anger than ____________.

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that which caused it.

Marcus Aurelius

49
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Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having __________.

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few wants.

Epictetus

50
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Imagine you are dead, you have lived you life. Now take what’s left __________.

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and live it properly.

Marcus Aurelius

51
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The obstacle is _______.

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the way.

Marcus Aurelius

52
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What a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength _____________.

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of which his body is capable.

Socrates

53
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Proverbs 9:7

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Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return. Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt.

54
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Proverbs 13:11

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Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.

55
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Proverbs 18:12

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Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.

56
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Proverbs 21:29

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Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but the virtuous think before they act.

57
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Ecclesiastes 4:9

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Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.

58
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Ecclesiastes 7:8

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Finishing is better than starting. Patience is better than pride.

59
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Ecclesiastes 7:9

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Control your temper, for anger labels you a fool.

60
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Ecclesiastes 11:2

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But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead.

61
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Ecclesiastes 11:4

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Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

62
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Matthew 7:3-5

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3 And why worry about the speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? 4 How can you think of saying to your friend, ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? 5 Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.

63
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Matthew 7:7

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Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

64
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Matthew 7:12

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Do unto others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.

65
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Matthew 7:16

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You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles?

66
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Luke 7:35

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But wisdom is shown to be right by the lives of those who follow it.

67
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Luke 14:11

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For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

68
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Luke 19:26

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“Yes,” the king replied, “and to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.”

69
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________ while you wait.

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Hustle

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