(From Fastcompany.com) Two days after launching a Kickstarter project, Cesar Kuriyama found himself bombarded with questions and requests. It was tempting to work around the clock. But at 6 p.m., he got up from his desk and went for a bike ride. Because he needed to find a moment worth recording.
Kuriyama is fundraising for an app that makes it easy for anyone to record one second each day of their lives. It’s based on an experiment he has been conducting on his own life since February 20, 2011, when after saving for years, he quit his job to take a year off from work. To chronicle what he assumed would be the most adventurous year of his life; he started selecting one second of video footage from each day. His plan was to compile the moments into a six-minute memento. Soon, however, he found the project was doing more than documenting his life--it was changing the decisions he made about how to spend time.
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“[The project has] made me realize I need to do one interesting thing to make today count,” he says. “It’s been an incalculably positive influence on my life. The reason that I’ve really decided to stop everything and try to build this thing is that I genuinely think it can have that same influence for others." Here’s how he believes chronicling a life in one-second chunks can change it.
Business Resolution – Record 1 second every work day for a month – the good and the bad.
How can this change the way you work and the way that your employees work? It makes you very conscious of your actions. Were they good? Were they bad? Were there any employee successes? Were you motivating? Were you prepared?
Use this as an experiment in your company. Try it for a month and get the entire company involved, no matter your size company 1 – 1,000, video one second of every day. Find out if there is anyone that can stitch them together in your company, since the app isn’t created yet.
After the month is over, make sure that you have a special meeting where everyone can watch them, especially if multiple people are recording these 1 second tidbits. In the meeting, get feedback if it was successful. If it was successful, continue it and see how people’s attitudes change when they realize they need to record 1 second every day. This will be sure to increase employee engagement!
