Secrets of an Outstanding People

KAIZEN? What does it mean? Is it an English word?  Kaizen is a Japanese word which best helps capture the concept to be express here, Perhaps it is more of an attitude than a concept. It is a process or system based on making an unending positive improvements. It is an attitude found in almost every outstanding achiever or champion. 

For these people, achievement is not a destination. It is rather an unending journey of improvements. It is an attitude dedicated to improvements. It is an attitude compulsively fixed on making the best better. A positive force minded attitude. It is an attitude of continuous stretch, forever pushing the frontiers of possibility, an attitude of never getting complacent or relaxed in the belief that the best, the highest has been obtained. For great people there is never a performance that is so good that it cannot be bettered. In a sense the spirit of improvement possesses these personalities. For them, there is never an apogee in the graph of improvements. There is never a place of stable climax. All climaxes can be improved upon. Every climax is to be surpassed.

Usually the opponent is the spur for greater improvements for the average competitor, but not necessarily for this group of outstanding personalities. For the latter, even where all opponents are beaten, they constitute their own best records into the opponent that must be beaten. Their concept of competition is intrinsic. The challenge is continuously to beat their best performances.

Each best performance becomes the new challenge to be beaten, to be improved upon. The new mark becomes a stepping stool for further climb. For them, it is like the climb on a never-ending ladder leading higher and higher into the heights. There is never a point of satiation. The challenge is constantly for better performances. There are never really destination, but a compulsive unstoppable journey of attainments. No performance of theirs is so good that it cannot be improved upon.