📖 From the book Atomic Habits by James Clear…
The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding. Here’s how the math works out: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done.
A mistake we often make at the start of a new year: taking on too many habit changes at once.
Try to avoid that trap.
Think about the one habit you could improve that would make everything else in your life easier.
What would that be? 🤔
What if you focused every day this year on getting just 1 percent better at that habit?
Back to the book 👇
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.
The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.
It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.
I quit my last job back in 2010, which means this is my 14th year working for myself 🥳
- Earnings my first year: $10,044
- Earnings my last year: $306,840
That’s the effect of my habits multiplying over time 📈
You can do similar.