Richer Than Yesterday

Plus Minus Next is a powerful way to inject metacognition into your daily life and work. It isn’t about making big changes, crafting five-year plans, or finding your purpose. Instead, it focuses on incremental adjustments that compound over time. You can identify what you want more of and proactively focus your attention on these sources of growth.

There is power in small wins and slow gains. Success doesn’t have to be meteoric or the brightest star in the universe. In fact, it’s almost better that it’s not.

Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.

Successful people change in ways that allow them to continue to take advantage of their strengths while compensating for their weaknesses and unsuccessful people don’t.