“Daily ripples of excellence become a tsunami of success,” Robin Sharma.  This is the compound effect.  The things we do add up whether we see the results immediately or not.  It’s about finding what works, it’s about honoring who we are, it’s about staying the course.  It’s about learning from what we’ve done the day before, and learning today, and learning more beyond that.  Compounding (😊) on our discussion yesterday, it isn’t about sharing a perfect idea.  It’s about perfecting it as we go, as we learn from it.  It’s about getting that little bit better every day.  Gong for it every day.  Committing to it and building on it every day.  Shifting our mindset toward that level of success is only sustainable in increments until it has built into something that can’t be stopped.  Taking a large leap is sometimes necessary but the mind isn’t designed to take on massive change all at once every day.  We are meant to integrate and allow ourselves to become a different version through adaptation. 

The amazing thing is that after the first hump in taking on these new thoughts, habits, it becomes a natural state.  Sharma suggests that it takes around 40 days—40 days of discomfort and tiredness, anger, frustration, fear—to allow the new way of being to become our new way.  Once we have adapted and integrated and accepted this new way of being, the rest is inevitable.  Once we align with that new way of being it can’t avoid us as it is naturally drawn to it.  We have become something else in the process, something that attracts what we’ve been hoping for.  Hope becomes a reality with focused thought and dedicated, consistent effort.  Often it provides a greater result than we could even imagine.  Sometimes a leap is necessary, but it is easier to sustain the long term changes through incremental steps.  We have a stronger foundation that way.  With a strong foundation, with each choice we make, we create and develop our opportunities for success to the point where we become successful.  Take a little step every day.