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6.6 a For years, I resolved every January that that was the year I would exercise more. Every year until now I’ve failed. I realized that I was setting myself an unrealistic goal – to go from next to no exercise, to expecting to go to the gym three times a week. This year, I am doing things differently. I started out by deciding to do five minutes of exercise a day. That was easy, so I did that every day for two weeks. Then I made it ten minutes a day, and did that for three weeks. Now I am on 15 minutes a day. I feel fitter already and the change has been easy.


b I left school without any qualifications. It hasn’t really been a problem so far, as I make good money, but I can see that at some point in the future I won’t be able to progress any further. I would really like to become an engineer, but I’m not sure if I have the brains for that. So, at the moment, I’m taking distance learning classes in maths and physics at school-leaving level. If I succeed in those, I will find out what other subjects I need to study engineering. If I don’t succeed, I’ll try something else. Maybe I have a talent for languages, or art – who knows? I’m young, so I have time to try lots of things.


c I run our company’s canteen. I noticed that the kitchen helpers were spending a lot of time cleaning up after every meal, so we all decided to look at ways of changing the process to save time. First of all, we installed a conveyor belt that carried trays with used plates and cutlery into the kitchen and we asked the staff to put their used trays on the belt, instead of leaving them on the tables. That improved things a lot. Then one of my workers suggested we could work even faster if the staff removed all the rubbish – napkins, plastic cups, sugar packets, and so on, from their trays before putting them on the conveyor belt. We have put rubbish bins next to the conveyor belt and are now monitoring to see how much difference that has made.


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