Small Differences and Consistent Compounding
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Small Differences and Consistent Compounding
Similarly, a slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. 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.
James Clear • Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller
The small things that you do consistently matter more than the large things you do sporadically. This is because consistency allows you to capture the awesome power of compounding - where small gains compound on each other to create massive change over time.
Thomas Waschenfelder • The Most Powerful Force You Can Harness: Slow, Incremental, Constant Progress - Ideas of wealth cre — Wealest
It can be hard to appreciate how much a little extra makes a big difference.
Making five extra calls a day may seem small, but do that for a month, and you'll have made 100 extra calls. Work an extra hour a day because you don't go out partying with your friends, and you've got 6 weeks of work in a year over your colleagues. That's six extra weeks ... See more
Making five extra calls a day may seem small, but do that for a month, and you'll have made 100 extra calls. Work an extra hour a day because you don't go out partying with your friends, and you've got 6 weeks of work in a year over your colleagues. That's six extra weeks ... See more
Brain Food: The Perfect Pause
Persistent commitment to slightly better on a regular schedule inexorably makes a difference over time.
See, that little 1 percent compounds over time, and it becomes powerful. When we are 1 percent better today, we don’t notice it, do we? In the short run being 1 percent better or 1 percent worse isn’t very noticeable. But these micro-improvements compound over time: you can get 1 percent better every week or you can get 1 percent better every day.