John Murphy presents DMAIC: Define the problem, Measure your time and emotions, Analyze root causes, Improve by subtracting rather than adding, Control through repeated practice. The framework cycles continuously, like an athlete training, to keep solving new problems as you grow.
DMAIC. So what does that, what does that mean? What does that stand for? And D is define, M is measure, A is analyze, I is improve or innovate, and C is control. Incidentally, this is not a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 step and I'm done thing. Just like the Ring of Peace and Beyond Doubt, it's iterative. So what does that mean? After I go through a cycle of DMAIC, I start over again. So define, define what? Define current state. Define yourself the way you see it. Define where you are. Define details. Be factual. Then measure the same thing. Measure facts and details in your life. Measure how you spend your time. Measure how often you get nervous or anxious or angry or afraid. Then analyze why you get that way. This is the key, is analyzing root cause. And so when we go into the improve, perhaps even innovate phase, we identify solutions. And a lot of times the solutions are not where we add more, we actually subtract. Okay. It's a whole different way of looking at it. So, you know, if you think about any great athlete, for example, the control is repetition, practice over and over. No matter how good they are, they continue to practice and get better and better.
