Small Changes Done Over Time Make The Biggest Differences

Small Changes Done Over Time Make The Biggest Differences

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just wake up and have the changes we were wishing for in place and working just as we planned? Life can change, but it doesn't usually happen overnight and it doesn't happen without us making an effort. Change happens when we take different actions than we have been taking. If we keep doing the same thing, we will get the same results. The good news is we don't have to make big changes to reap big results. Small changes made consistently will reap the greatest reward.

I am a believer that it is the daily actions that we do consistently that will create the biggest results. People tell me that they don't have enough time to do things differently. The good news is you don't need a lot of time and you don't have to do a whole lot differently. Pick one action to do differently. The key is committing to doing the action every day. For example, what if you committed to waking up fifteen minutes earlier than you are now. In one week, you would have an additional 105 minutes, or an extra hour and forty-five minutes during the week. Multiply that by 52 weeks in the year and you now have 5460 extra minutes, or over 91 extra hours. If you used that extra time to read one book a month, you could read 12 new books in a year. After ten years, you will have read 120 books. The idea here is that the small things add up. It doesn't take a lot of time or a lot of extra effort. By taking the small action consistently, you will make big changes over time. Tomorrow will be different because of the action you took today.

Coaching

Small changes done over time are what make the biggest differences. It is like compound interest. Each action builds on the previous one to create a big change. So don't worry that you don't have a lot of time or want to make a lot of changes at once. You don't need to. Just do one new action a day and commit to doing it for at least one month. The bonus to this is once you start making small changes other things in your life will begin to change seemingly by themselves. They won't really, but once you start improving one area of your life you just naturally will want to change others. Not only does the process of making small changes at a time work, it has a domino effect.

Coaching Question

What will you do differently today?

Coaching Challenge

Since we are at the beginning of a new month, this is a great time to commit to doing one new action for the month of August. Perhaps you will get up earlier, or start exercising, or start a new habit, anything at all. Just do one thing differently and do it for the month of August. At the end of the month, check in with yourself and see what difference your small change has made.

Daily Success Formula

Change + Consistency + Commitment = Big Results

Quotes

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life and in change there is power." Alan Cohen

"Until the pain of remaining the same hurts more than the pain of change, most people prefer to remain the same." Dr. Richard D. Dobbins

"If life is about any one thing, it is about change." Anonymous