Continuous process improvement; are you familiar with this term? If not you need to be.
Every part of your business and even your family life is a part of a process. If you are like me, a number of processes in your life can be improved.
The idea of purposely putting in place a process that continuously develops improvement in selected areas is one of the major differences between companies, families and even individuals that succeed and those that range from mediocre to failures. Billionaires do this. The rest of us don't.
Thinking through issues by writing them down, or of course typing them into a Word document, is the way I begin and continue the process.
Consider the following steps:
1. Do a data dump
2. Print out the document for review
3. Reduce it to a list
4. Tape it to the wall
There is something about this process that really helps you identify the areas of your life or business that you will focus on first, second and then third fourth, fifth, etc. Since you cannot successfully concentrate on too many areas at once, choose to concentrate on the item with the highest return.
As a side note, the highest return may or may not be monetary. For example, in one area, I need to actually hire a new employee to relieve another employee, my wife, so that we can take more time off together. The payoff will not be monetary but will be substantial.
This is the first step to improvement in any area of your life.
I will give you the next step next week.
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