Change is difficult; all of us felt it and experienced it in our lives. Making a significant change in our lives, routines, or habits requires mental toughness. It requires self-control, patience, time, and discipline. Many people avoid change which leads to an unfulfilled life.

Our minds are designed for survival and want to conserve every ounce of energy for that purpose. Most of us live in a world where our survival is virtually guaranteed and live relatively safe lives in comparison to our ancestors, but we still carry the same old animal instincts.

Even with the smallest changes to our daily habits, our brain feels threatened and actively seeks the easiest route, avoiding any form of discomfort. The problem lies in getting our thoughts to do difficult things while using the psychology of our minds to our advantage.

Luckily I have an answer for you it’s called the “The Kaizen Way”

What is Kaizen's method?

The essence of Kaizen is to make small, continuous positive changes, dedicating a small amount of your time every day to a goal or habit you have in mind.

Whenever people promise to make a big radical change in their lives. A part of your brain known as the amygdala, which is critical for survival, activates a fight-or-flight response. In the face of immediate danger, this response alerts all body parts to act.

One way it does this is by slowing or stopping other functions like rational and creative thinking, which could interfere with the physical ability to run or fight. The greater the goal, the greater the mind’s resistance, which leads to failure.

Large Goal — Fear — Access to rational thinking restricted — Failure

Small Goal — Fear bypassed — Complete Access to Rational Thinking — Success

The only way to overcome our mind’s programming to resist change is by starting small and avoiding the fight-or-flight reaction.

Kaizen's incremental steps provide a subtle solution. Instead of sitting at the mountain's base, pondering how big it is. One can start by breaking it down into manageable steps and concentrating solely on the next step, rather than the summit.

With Kaizen, the steps are so tiny and trivial that they even seem laughable at first. That is the only way to bypass fear and resistance of the mind. In this way, the mind has no obstacles to offer because survival is not at risk, and no big change is made or considered.

Small actions take very little time, effort, money, and willpower. Small actions trick our brain into thinking: Hey, this change is so tiny it’s no big deal. No need to get stressed up here, and no risk of failure, embarrassment, or unhappiness.