Relayblogger

My first step to a more frugal life is to get some order in my home. My home has been a mess more or less since I moved together with my wife. My boy room was tidy. To be honest it is definitively not my wife that is creating all the mess now.

My solution is to tidy up in a small area, like the kitchen sink or the living room sofa. When that area is tidy I commit to keep it so. Since keeping the small area nice is not very hard to do, it becomes a habit quite soon. Here is where the Kaizen thinking come in: If I continue to keep that are nice and expand it a little bit each day the small tidy area will soon become a large tidy area without much discomfort.

Establish a baseline and make small continuous improvements.

It is a philosophy I support way more than trying to do large changes up front. My biggest problem is staying committed so I have to restart with the small activity often. Another difficulty is convincing my wife who prefer larger activities. Actually I think it is just the size of the initial activity that differ.

If you are serious about making money from your blog you have to apply this too. One implementation of it is the Demming Cycle: Plan, Do, Check, Act. A practice in use by many large organizations.