What he showed us, I have never forgotten, and I will show it to you today,
you will also never forget in your lives. But only one thing,
you have to do what I tell you to do. Are you ready?
Just do what I tell you to do. Sit straight.
Now, raise both your hands.
Raise your hands even higher, a little more. Ok, put your hands down.
That's all. What happened?
Something very interesting happened. When I asked you to raise your hands,
you all raised your hands, when I asked you to raise a little more,
all of you raised a little more, which means the first time
you did not raise it to the maximum possible extent.
And this is the great thing about human psychology.
Whatever we do, we do not do it to the full extent we can do.
We do not do it to the fullest possible extent. I saw something some 16, 17 years ago,
one gentleman, a management consultant, came and he showed us how to apply
Kaizen in our daily lives. What he showed us, I have never forgotten,
and I will show it to you today, you will also never forget in your lives.
But only one thing, you have to do what I tell you to do.
Are you ready? So Kaizen, now how to implement
Kaizen in our own lives? It means,
every day I can actually do my studies a little better,
what I'm doing now, right now, I can do a little better
because I'm not doing up to my maximum extent. My feelings for others,
it can be a little better because what I'm doing right now
is not the maximum capacity that I have got. My work, your studies, your work in the house
and in the university, whatever you're doing,
definitely, it can be a little better because you are not doing the maximum
that you can do now. So every day
improve how much “Kaizen”, a little bit, you have that capacity
and you cannot keep on stretching indefinitely, there is a limit,
but there is no limit to our ability to think creatively.
There's no limit to our abilities of feeling, and there's no limit to the perfection we
can get in work. So the development
of the head, the heart and the hand every day apply Kaizen to yourself.
When you get up in the morning, you make a vow,
“today my thinking, my studying will be a little better”.
How it will be a little better? You think, you know which which
place you are lacking, particularly, you know.
“So what I can do a little better?” Second thing is, my feelings for others,
sympathy for others, will be a little better than what it was yesterday
and a little better only. And my work, the work that I do
will be a little better than what I did yesterday. Not only one day,
daily if you do this, you will feel the difference in six days.
By next week you will feel the difference. So apply Kaizen to your life.
Apply this incremental improvement, small improvement.
One senior swami told us very interesting,
“what difference should you make in your life?” “Don't make a big difference,
it's very difficult to sustain a big difference in life”.
“It's easier to sustain a small difference, start with the smallest, practice the easiest”.
What should I do? Start with the smallest, practice the easiest.
Whatever I'm doing now, the next improvement, make the smallest step, take the smallest step,
take the easiest step. If you start with the smallest
and practice the easiest, your mind will never
tell you that you cannot do it. If you start to do something very big,
your mind itself will sabotage you. It will say that you cannot do this.
“I cannot do this”. With small steps, your mind has to agree.
“Yes, I can do it”. So start with the smallest, practice the easiest.