Golden Door
1. Kaizen is about the small baby steps of change. When we are trying to make a change in our lives and we offer our brain a large change it may feel overwhelmed, go into the stress response and set us up to fail. But when we offer our brain small incremental steps of change, our brain finds that playful and that sets us up to succeed.

2. Break exercise down into small bites. If you can't find a 30 minute block of time to do your daily exercise, find three 10 minute time slots, or two 15 minute time slots. Or start out by exercising just 10 or 15 minutes a day and slowly add more time until you are up to 30 minutes a day.

3. Exercise while watching TV. Use a stair climber or treadmill, lift weights or do some leg lifts and avoid the couch potato syndrome. This will also work off some of the stress of watching the news.

4. Lay out your exercise clothes ahead of time. If you exercise before breakfast, lay out your clothes at night. If you exercise before dinner, set your clothes out before you leave home in the morning or take them with you and change at work so you are ready to go when you get home. It will put you in the mindset to exercise.

5. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. One Boston doctor says he was amazed when he lost 12 pounds simply by using the stairs instead of the elevator at the hospital where he works.

6. When parking, park as far away as possible from your destination. Every step you take makes a difference and counts as exercise.

7. Run a couple of errands each week on foot or by bicycle when possible.