The Trick to Consistent Growth

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THE TRICK TO CONSISTENT GROWTH

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The idea of self-improvement can be overwhelming.

We see people who have achieved utter greatness, have done incredible things, and have lived many lives, and it makes you feel small and incomplete, and those achievements seem so far-fetched.

In reality, however, all you have to do is tweak the perspective.

Those people didn't wake up one day and achieve those things; it was a compound effect of trials and tribulations, failure after failure, and most importantly, small bits of consistent growth.

Don't focus on changing your entire life in one sitting.

Focus on improving just 1% each day, and do one small thing every day that helps you grow as a person (this newsletter is just that!).

The problem is that if you try to change everything in a short period of time, your growth will be extremely inconsistent.

If you change your diet, lifestyle, circle of friends, and job all within a short time frame, it won't last. You'll find yourself improving and crashing over and over again, and you'll end up not far from where you started.

If you just focus on 1% improvement every single day, you'll end up 37 times better by the end of just one year. This is why small choices don't make much of a difference at the time but add up over the long term.

The caveat to this method of growth is that you can't tell it's happening until enough time has passed.

Growing 1% each day doesn't have an effect in the short term, so that's why it's best to zoom out on your own graph.

Stop looking at it from a 2-week or 3-month perspective and change it to a 2-year or 5-year perspective. Similar to how compound interest works, so does this method of growth.

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How can you grow 1% every day?

Create non-negotiables for yourself.

Growing every day doesn’t mean you have to do something new every day; it just means you have to stick consistently with your goals, as over time they will compound before your very eyes!

Make your non-negotiables something that will slightly put you outside your comfort zone, but not enough to the point where you won’t be able to stick to them every day.

You want to make them just within reach so that you still have to stretch, but it’s possible. This can be anything, such as waking up earlier, sticking to a certain diet, or reading a certain number of pages in a book per day; customize it to meet your specific goals.

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

If you’re worried about starting something new because you’re scared that you won’t get the results that you set out to, then your safest bet is to never try anything new because, no matter what it is, results are never guaranteed.

Taking risks is part of the journey, and the scariest part of the journey is having no idea whether what you’re doing will have the outcome that you want it to. That's a fact of life that you can either embrace or run away from.

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