Whenever and whatever you are doing something you always need to bring you body and work from it. This may seem obvious but let me explain where I’m going with this. Therefore we are always affected by it and in what condition it is in.

Earlier, I talked a lot about the importance of feeling good to perform well and make good decisions. So the complexity I’m trying to shed some light on here is that performance is also highly affected by how we feel physically.

What I want to communicate with this is that if we what to perform well, make good decisions and consequently be effective we need to take good care of our bodies, so they do not hold us back, but instead lift us up.  A good way of putting this is: “If you don’t take time to take care of you body, you will sooner or later need to take time off to bee sick”.

During my time studying I have experienced problems with planning my studies in a specific course, and have thus not been able to reach the goals that I sat up for myself.

The cause is that I have never been able to get an overview of the work load that I have had and therefore never been able to estimate how much time I needed to study and how I should allocate my time for the various courses.

With lean thinking (jit and jidoka), I have been able to create a visual overview of my studies and with thus been able to estimate how much time I need to spend on each of the courses to be able to reach the goal that I have set up for each course.

If you want inspiration to try to create something similar for the planning of you studies, you can take a look at my planning table. It is in Swedish [apologies for my English speaking readers] but I think you will understand the concept.

Today I had nothing but a two-hour lecture scheduled. A week ago I would have spent the rest of the day doing whatever I felt like. However, practically all my time today has been value adding to my schoolwork. Even though I cannot remember the last time this happened, it does not feel like I have accomplished something extraordinary.

As this project has started I have set new standards in my life. Instead of letting a whole day go by without any achievements I now make sure that every day is made use of. Even though the project has not lasted for very long I feel that these new standards are my new normal state, hence I do not feel like I have accomplished something extraordinary today.

I am surprised how quickly these standards have become my normal state. I believe that this depends on to what extent learning points about improvement are implemented in following days. In my opinion I have been successful within this area.

If it is this simple to change my standard day I am convinced that this project will guide me to continuous improvement throughout all of the 50 days.