Why small habits make a Big Difference

The Power of Small wins Daily

As it is so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small improvements daily. Very often we convince ourselves that massive success requires massive action. We can take the example of our board exams in which we put pressure on ourselves to make earth-shattering improvements a day or a week before the exam.

 

Meanwhile, improving by 1 % isn't particularly notable sometimes it isn't even noticeable-but it can be far more meaningful, especially in the long run. Tiny improvements can make an astounding difference when compounded. Here is how the Math works out: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up 37 times better by the time you are done. Conversely, if you get 1 percent worse each day for one year, you will decline nearly down to zero.

 Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement and the effect of your habits multiplies 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 huge. This can be a difficult concept to appreciate in daily life. We often dismiss small changes because they don't seem to matter very much at the moment. If you save a little money now, you are still not a millionaire. If you go to the gym three days in a row, you won't get into shape. If you study French for an hour, you still haven't learned the language. We make a few changes, but the result never seems to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines.

 Unfortunately, the slow pace of transformation also makes it easy to let a bad habit slide. If you procrastinate and put your important works off until tomorrow, there will unusually be time to finish it later. So a single decision is easy to dismiss. But when we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results.

The impact created by a change in your habits is similar to the effect of shifting the route of an airplane by just a few degrees. Imagine you are flying from Los Angeles to New York City. If a pilot leaving from Los Angeles adjusts the heading just 3.5 degrees south, you will land in Washington DC, instead of New York. Such a small change is barely noticeable at takeoff the nose of the airplane moves just a few feet-but when magnified across the entire US, you end up hundred of miles apart.

 Similarly, a slight change in your daily habit can guide your life to a very different destination. Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant at the moment, but throughout moments that make up a lifetime, these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits-not once in a lifetime transformations.

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