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Kaizen Mind: The Gentle Science of Lasting Change: Change Your Life, Change Your Ways, One Small Step at a Time
Most self-help books tell you to try harder. This one explains why that's the wrong advice — and what to do instead.
Have you set bold resolutions — a total diet overhaul, a punishing exercise regime, a complete reinvention of your working day — only to find yourself back where you started within weeks? The problem isn't you. It's the approach.
Kaizen Mind draws on Japanese continuous improvement philosophy, clinical psychology, and NLP to show why small, consistent steps outperform dramatic effort every time — and gives you a practical system to prove it in your own life.
At the heart of the book is the NQERA Framework — a five-step cycle of Notice, Question, Experiment, Reflect, and Acknowledge — that turns vague intentions into directed, learning-based action. It's applied across the domains where change matters health, productivity, finances, and relationships.
What makes this Grounded in understand why big changes trigger resistance — and how tiny steps slip beneath the brain's alarm system entirelyBuilt-in NLP Kaizen Questions to orient your thinking, habit anchoring to make new behaviours automatic, future pacing to reduce resistance before it startsApplied across every practical chapters on health, focus and procrastination, finances, and relationships — each with worked examples and starter worksheetsHonest about a dedicated chapter on plateaus, the what-the-hell effect, self-sabotage, and how to restart without guiltEvidence-based drawing on habit formation research, self-compassion studies, behavioural economics, and cognitive neuroscienceWhat you'll walk away repeatable five-step system for any habit, in any area of lifeA set of NLP tools that bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing itThe ability to turn a missed day into useful data — instead of a reason to quitA new relationship with patient, curious, and self-compassionateNo 30-day challenges. No willpower required. No overpromising.
Just one small step — informed by science, grounded in practice, and sized so your nervous system can actually say yes.
If you've tried and failed before, the problem wasn't you. It was the approach. This book gives you a better one.
Have you set bold resolutions — a total diet overhaul, a punishing exercise regime, a complete reinvention of your working day — only to find yourself back where you started within weeks? The problem isn't you. It's the approach.
Kaizen Mind draws on Japanese continuous improvement philosophy, clinical psychology, and NLP to show why small, consistent steps outperform dramatic effort every time — and gives you a practical system to prove it in your own life.
At the heart of the book is the NQERA Framework — a five-step cycle of Notice, Question, Experiment, Reflect, and Acknowledge — that turns vague intentions into directed, learning-based action. It's applied across the domains where change matters health, productivity, finances, and relationships.
What makes this Grounded in understand why big changes trigger resistance — and how tiny steps slip beneath the brain's alarm system entirelyBuilt-in NLP Kaizen Questions to orient your thinking, habit anchoring to make new behaviours automatic, future pacing to reduce resistance before it startsApplied across every practical chapters on health, focus and procrastination, finances, and relationships — each with worked examples and starter worksheetsHonest about a dedicated chapter on plateaus, the what-the-hell effect, self-sabotage, and how to restart without guiltEvidence-based drawing on habit formation research, self-compassion studies, behavioural economics, and cognitive neuroscienceWhat you'll walk away repeatable five-step system for any habit, in any area of lifeA set of NLP tools that bridge the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing itThe ability to turn a missed day into useful data — instead of a reason to quitA new relationship with patient, curious, and self-compassionateNo 30-day challenges. No willpower required. No overpromising.
Just one small step — informed by science, grounded in practice, and sized so your nervous system can actually say yes.
If you've tried and failed before, the problem wasn't you. It was the approach. This book gives you a better one.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 22, 2025
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