Humans tend to come back towards comfort and have a fixation with ‘big’, favouring big steps, big upgrades, big changes and producing humongous results.

• Meaningful changes come from small steps that are doable and don’t overwhelm our bodies and mind.

• Kaizen is a process of improving a habit using very small steps.

• Small steps can lead to big changes.

• Kaizen disarms the brain’s fear response making change come more naturally.

• By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable...

Many of us work towards having better habits, using goal setting and new year resolutions to try and change ourselves, only to fail miserably. A study showed that 92 per cent of new year resolutions fail, most of it by February.

The problem may be our favouring big goals and to aim big...