Small Differences and Consistent Compounding
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Small Differences and Consistent Compounding
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Meanwhile, improving by 1 percent isn’t particularly notable—sometimes it isn’t even noticeable—but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding.
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.
When you’re thinking of how to make your business bigger, it’s tempting to try to think all the big thoughts and come up with world-changing massive-action plans. But please know that it’s often the tiny details that really thrill people enough to make them tell all their friends about you.
The secret to being exceptional is in the small choices we make moment-to-moment.
Starting where you are, and attempting to find improvements from there, naturally leads to incrementalism. In your career, you might think that you want a similar job, but one that pays $10k more and has a few more PTO days. In your business, you might examine a process and decide that it’s basically fine as it is, and that it just needs a little r
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