The Five Minute Best Practice

Best practices are an important area of organization operation.  There can be dozens, hundreds and thousands of employees doing the similar things in different ways resulting in lesser and greater degrees of success in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and quality.  The idea of best practices is to use/do what is best to improvements.  Most often best practices can be small changes that make a big difference. What about best practices at the individual human level?  We've had a few decades of performance improvement and quality management in the organization.  Let's explore how this wealth of knowledge has been applied to living our lives. Here is the start of looking into this topic: The First Five Minutes:  Best Practices Approach to Motor Vehicle Collisions. This site -fireengineering.com is advice for what to do when you are involved in or arrive at a collision.  Small Changes in Teaching:  The Last 5 Minutes of Class. This article comes from The Chronicle of Higher Education - chronicle.com - the author proposes two questions to students:  What was the most important thing you learned today?  and What question still remains in your mind? James M. Lang has a number of practices like this - the First 5 minutes of class, small changes in teaching, etc. Five Good Minutes:  100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm and Focused All Day Long (The Five Good Minutes Series). This is a book available on Amazon and its summary says that with five minutes of mindfulness, relaxation, or imagery techniques during their morning routes, readers can set their intentions and greet the day feeling calm, centred and energized.  This is part of a series titled Five Good Minutes. I think they have a similar practice for the end of the day. The Five Minute Journal - Simplest most effective way to be happier...from self-improvement theory to action.  There's an app for this one at intelligentchange.com  Today we're looking at a Grimsby Painted Lady garden with Floyd Elzinga's pine cone as the sculptural focal point.  This a calm, meditative garden, perhaps a best practice for gardeners.