A couple of years ago a guy told me about a book called The Compound Effect, which said that no big personal goal is easy to accomplish, and if I decide to use one small and simple action to get to my big goal I’ll be disappointed. A small can’t carry a big’s weight.
But here’s the thing. Darren Hardy also said that a small action done repeatedly – day after day after day after day after day – will get me a lot closer to my big goal; might even get me all the way there. A whole lot of repeated smalls maybe gets me my big.
I can’t get my big by doing one big because I’m not capable of one big all at once.
And doing one small action doesn’t get me my big goal because one small can only get me a small.
But many, many, many smalls building day by day by day might get me there.
So note to MHJ: if I concentrate on repetitively doing my small reads then reading the big book might happen.
Notes: Darren Hardy. The Compound Effect: Multiplying Your Success One Simple Step At A Time (Da Capo: Philadelphia, 2013)