The term Shinkansen literally means “New Trunk line “. The Japanese word is made of characters new, trunk and line.
It all started in 1958 in the midst of post – war economic miracle, the Japanese government issued direct orders to Japanese Railways to find a quicker way to connect Tokyo with Osaka.
When the JR (Japanese Railways) submitted the proposal for a train that would travel at an average speed of 100KMH. However, the Japanese government said, we need a train which should run at 200KMPH.
This is where the engineers applied the Shinkansen way of thinking and achieved a milestone that caused astonishment around the world. Yes, The Shinkansen connected Tokyo to Osaka at more than 200KMPH, cutting down the travel time between the two cities from six hours forty minutes to three hours ten minutes.
The radical change of Shinkansen effect, is widely used in engineering and business, the same shall be applied in our lives too.
If you have an objective you are going to reach in ten years, the best strategy to make it happen is to think about how you can manage to reach the same objective in one year.
Write down your Shinkansen objectives :
Do you want to own a Rolls Royce car, write it down.
Do you want to start your own business, write it down.
Do you want to travel between Tokyo and Osaka in the bullet train, write it down
Then write down ten initiatives you will undertake to make it easier for you to accomplish your first bullet train objective.
State the action into THREE segments:
1. What I will do
2. How will I do
3. When will I do
Once you have specified the ten actions, each one of the with its what, how and when, sign the sheet with a firm belief, to make a commitment to yourself. Let it be in your vicinity, so that you can see it during your daily routine. Once signed, the bullet train will have started rolling within you….
