ABOUT LEANPAC®

LeanPac is a start-up luggage company with the focus of providing a modular packing solution for travellers to stay organised throughout their travels. Our unique selling point is ‘lean thinking’ and our current product line is designed to ensure that your luggage is more streamlined, your belongings are easy to access when you need them and that you are always ready for whatever may come your way. Packing, unpacking and being organised has never been easier with the LeanPac System.

THE EVOLUTION OF LEANPAC

LeanPac is a start-up luggage company with the focus of providing a modular packing solution for travellers to stay organised throughout their travels. Our unique selling point is ‘lean thinking’ and our current product line is designed to ensure that your luggage is more streamlined, your belongings are easy to access when you need them and that you are always ready for whatever may come your way. Packing, unpacking and being organised has never been easier with the LeanPac System.

LEAN DESIGN WITH THE TRAVELLER IN MIND

The System of modular products that we have created, allows travellers to easily access what they need, when they need without having to waste time hunting through a bag. The lean methodology saves space and saves time. And, that’s what we are all about!
The feedback we have received on our product line tells us that as travellers become more proficient in using our luggage, the experience continues to get even better. Who knew?! The products don’t change, but the thinking does, especially for newbie lean thinkers. Our approach here at LeanPac is to engage with a like-minded group of regular travellers, just like us, rather than to have a huge volume of sales. We want the LeanPac System to make your travels easier. Having a community of people who believe in lean as much as we do is important to us at LeanPac. We firmly believe in the lean methodology and we are confident that you will too!

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT & THE CURRENT LEANPAC PRODUCT LINE

The current product line is our very first version to market and is reasonably priced to entice every traveller out there to ‘go lean’. We want to spread the word of the lean methodology through our products and fine-tune our designs, in the ethos of continuous improvement which we take serious. We want to make the products even better with the feedback we get from the LeanPac community.
Our Lean Team is dedicated to creating a community of everyday lean thinkers to create a line of products that facilitates lean travelling and living. Join us in the lean movement and enjoy a more streamlined, straightforward travel experience than you could ever have imagined!

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Welcome to Being Lean!

Welcome to Being Lean! If you want to experience and learn about a life-changing methodology that will help you balance your workload, keep you productive and increase your free time, then you’ve come to the right place. The aim of this website is to create a community of like-minded Lean practitioners to share best practices and support each other on the road to an improved quality of life.

Most people will have heard of Lean methodology in their working environment and never consider taking it further, more holistically or in a structured manner. But if it works, why not introduce it into all areas of your life? Lean living can help you get motivated to, among other things, get healthy, improve the upkeep of your home, be a bit more environmentally friendly and make your travel experiences that much more enjoyable.

The book, Being Lean, is designed to kickstart or rejuvenate your journey to a more effective and healthier lifestyle that gives you more time for yourself. But it doesn’t stop there. To keep you inspired and motivate your desire for change, there’s a ton of extra content right here. You can share stories and experiences with other Lean advocates on the Lean Exchange, read up on best practices through our exciting Blogs, develop your Lean Lifestyle using downloadable Resources and even win a few helpful Lean goodies to boost your success. Wherever you are on your self-improvement journey, welcome to your Lean Portal!

Resources

Whether it’s time to put your new-found Lean knowledge into practice or you’re looking for ideas on how to raise the bar, I’ve packed in a ton of resources including worksheets, exercises and extra content to assist you in stepping your Lean lifestyle up to the next level. There’s honestly no substitute for experience, so download these helpful advice and practice aids to kick your brain into gear.

Contest

Healthy competition can work wonders for your motivation. Being Lean isn’t just about making occasional small tweaks to your life, it’s about making permanent changes that give you your time back. It’s a huge step from ‘doing Lean’ – making those small tweaks, to Being Lean – adopting those changes into your everyday lifestyle.

To assist you in taking the next step in your Lean journey, you’ll need all the correct tools to help you put your newfound knowledge into practice – so I thought I’d give you a head start by offering you the chance to win them!

Each month, the website will host a competition to give you the chance to really demonstrate your Lean learning, develop your skills and win some product & services from Being Lean, our Partners and Associates, to give you that extra boost to reach the next level.

Check out our prizes HERE!

COMING SOON! Keep an eye out for Lean competitions here, or on the Being Lean Social Media pages.

Sign Up & we will let you know as soon as the Competitions goes live!

Lean or Mean

As individuals, we all have different value systems & different ideas of what value means to us. Being lean, I’ve come across different people with different views of what is worth the effort or not. Here is a little activity I thought will be fun to see how Lean or Mean our community can be! Go on & have a view. Do you think the activities are Being Lean or Mean?!

Lean Exchange

Being Lean isn’t about going-it-alone. The resources, knowledge and process changes out there are limitless. The book, Being Lean, is hopefully a kick-starter to inspire others to make a positive change. But I don’t claim to know everything and despite making huge changes to my life already, I recognise that there’s always more to be done – always more waste to cut out. My dream is to generate a Lean culture filled with people who always strive for that little extra.

The Lean Exchange has been placed here specifically to encourage you to share and expand on your Lean knowledge and experiences and help nurture a Lean community of like-minded people who are hungry for a lifestyle change. Being Lean is a niche concept that should be encouraged and developed into an inclusive and supportive culture so that others all over the world can reap the benefits.

The Lean Exchange is your chance to ‘pay it forward’ and help others to achieve that unique Lean perspective through a supportive, open and welcoming platform to discuss and move forward together. The more people we talk to, the stronger we become. Open a thread or talk to other Lean thinkers to share your journey or offer your expertise to your next customer.

At Work

You spend a lot of your life at work and it’s vital that you cut down that time adequately to set a healthy work/life balance. The following articles are designed to help you work smarter, not harder. Raise the bar of just doing Lean yourself to leading by example, helping others to be just as Lean as you endeavour to be. Adapting your working life to incorporate Lean thinking and processes will cut down all that overtime caused by time robbers, in the long run.

The work you and the home you should be the same. The blogs you read in the Home section of this website should contribute to your personal development to make you more productive in all walks of life. But here, you should find a few more honed-in skills, tips & ideas specific to the work environment that will help you induce a lean culture around you to achieve better flow and make work more bearable!

When Travelling

Whether you’re travelling for work or leisure, there’s always room for improvement when it comes to being organised, planning ahead and packing your bags. It’s 10 times more stressful if something goes wrong when you’re away from home and you want your trips to be as enjoyable as possible. Being organised for your travels is not only about packing as it only contributes to a small fraction of time & cost loss compared to the other inconveniences of not planning or sticking to plans can cause. Being Lean in all aspects of travel can give you much more time to sit back and relax; whether that means cutting down queueing time, planning your route or packing your bags. These blogs endeavor to give you some food for thought helping you create your own detailed travel schedules, discuss the benefits of always having a plan B and give you the low down on getting the most out of your eat-out experiences. Find out what can help you stick to your healthy eating regime without compromising your quality of travel experience. What types of minimal travel training can help you get through your holidays without ruining all your pre-holiday efforts.

In Health

Looking after number one is important. Adapting fitness into your everyday lifestyle and making smart food choices are key stress relievers and you’ll see that you begin to be much more productive, throughout other aspects of your life too. But did you know that being healthy is also linked to Being Lean? Bad health as a result of bad living is the greatest defect and waste in your system.  The following articles can shed some light on how to bring Lean processes into your daily food and fitness regime. You can get ideas on how to engineer your environment to diet and train less to get more. I hope to motivate you to start living healthy if you are not already doing that but also to optimise what you are already doing, if you’ve already started.

At Home

If you’re feeling a bit lax in the organisational department, guilty about not doing your bit for the environment or stressed because you’re always forgetting things, then these articles are designed with you in mind. Read on for easy-to-read, helpful advice and guidance on how to make your home life Lean and de-stress through self-awareness.

Blogs

Developing from the stage of doing Lean to Being Lean can be a rough process and most people are just not aware of how much difference a few tiny tweaks to their everyday activities can make. Even hyper organised people might struggle to highlight the potential waste in some processes. Sometimes, you just need that second opinion or fresh set of eyes. To help you in your journey, I’ve put together a whole host of blog content which will hopefully spark your thought processes and inspire you to make more changes. If you’re looking for some new Lean ideas or you’re searching for helpful tips and tricks to give you a boost, then you’ve come to the right place. Being Lean doesn’t happen overnight, so keep at it and read on to get access to great resources, engaging conversations and thoughtful insights to push you to the next Lean level. And while you are at it, why not share your own Lean nuggets to inspire and challenge us?!

Michelle Leong

Hi, I’m Michelle Leong and I’m a self-confessed Lean fanatic, but only because I’m so focused on doing what makes me happy and living life to the fullest. I am a dedicated Lean practitioner with almost 20 years experience in changing people’s lives and businesses for the better. I was part of the team that introduced lean to the construction industry in a government-funded Construction Lean Improvement Programme (CLIP). I also helped translate and developed the Business Improvement Technique (BIT) NVQ qualification into Construction from the manufacturing industry and hold the highest level in that qualification and am an accredited assessor.

My biggest passion – aside from Lean living of course – is traveling. I’ve travelled to a total of 50 countries and have around 150 cities under my travel belt and, being a massive foodie too, restaurant and cuisine sampling along the way is inevitable & prolific.

I started practicing lean around 20 years ago and since, Being Lean and healthy living is a necessity to fuel my ambitious lifestyle. Over the years I’ve nailed packing lean and maintaining an exercise routine on the go. I’ve found that Being Lean allows me more time for the things that matter including scuba diving. I’ve racked up 450 fair-weather dives with my PADI Advanced Open-Water certification and I’m not finished yet!

Being Lean is an absolute necessity to enable my quality of life. Discovering and practising lean has helped me to live the life I love without compromise and I sincerely hope my book, this website and its resources and community will do the same for you.