How you can achieve big results from small wins

How you can achieve big results from small winsHow you can achieve big results from small winsHabit is persistence in practice. - ?Octavia ButlerIm a big fan of micro habits.A micro-habit is a small, simple action that doesnt require much motivation, but will help you achieve just about anything in life.Few repeated actions, done everyday, so discreet that they could easily go unleidiced.Thats how long-term habits are formed.Thats how you change behaviour.Not radical pursuit of good habits.If you improve every area of your life in small steps, you will become unstoppable.The one percent margin for improvement in everything you do is one of the best ways to build new habits.Its so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making small gains on a daily basis.Everything meaningful takes timeOvernight success is a myth.You cant achieve extraordinary results without putting in the work consistently.Almost every habit that you have built ove r the years?- ?good or bad?- ?is the result of many small decisions you have made over time.Improving by just 1 percent isnt noticeable but it makes the most difference.Jim Rohn once said Success is a few simple disciplines, practiced every day while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ?There is power in small wins and slow gains.The differences between expert performers, creatives, and normal professionals reflect a life-long persistence of deliberate, purposeful effort to improve performance.Tiger Woods started when he was 2 years old.Serena Williams started playing at 3, Venus Williams at 4.They committed to deep, sustained immersion in purposeful practice.Small gains every day.Commander Hadfield, the astronaut, improved his skills every day for 20 years before getting into space.Kurt Vonnegut wrote every day for 25 years before he had a major bestseller.Mozart had clocked up 3500 hours by the time he was 6 and had studied his chosen profession for 18 years before he wrote his Piano concerto No 9 at the age of 21.Einstein spent almost all his productive life working on the theory of relativity.Nobody wins in huge burstsLanding on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from says Geoff Calvin.One mistake people make over and over when they want to get mora do or achieve a goal is trying to do too much all at once.Productivity is a process, not an achievement.The most productive people you know or have read about do not rely on huge bursts and then stop working.They grow constantly in tiny, almost invisible increments.This is the Japanese process of kaizen, or continuous, gradual progress.Kaizen can be used to build new habits or change bad ones.The same process applies to starting a business or learning something new.It is better to make an imperfect, incomplete start with a new app or project and become 1% more efficient tomorrow than to wait until you have fully researched your options or understand the industry to take actionInstead of trying to do everything within the shortest time, focus on 1% increments.Habits dont change in a day.But 1% a day makes every habit work. Every.If you relax and give yourself permission to only improve a little each day, then a good habit works.?Practice makes habits.?If you insist the habit changes within the shortest possible time, you are bound to fail.?Pick the easiest change, improve it each day by 1% and dont stop until its routine. Thats how change happens. ?Do not underestimate the power of micro-improvements.Improving by 1 percent every day or week is achievable?- ?regardless of your circumstances.If youre currently encountering resistance with your goals, remember the words of Karen Lamb A year from now, you will have wished youd started today.Initiation is the hardestEvery journey, no matter how small requires initiation. After that forward motion kicks in it and leads toward momentum.Its like choosing to build a new habit. The first acti on usually takes more energy emotionally and mentally than the ones that follow.The discipline of the first step is insanely important.What follows is even more crucial.Example, if you made it your goal to get into shape, you take the first step of forward motion by doing your first workout or starting your diet.That first hurdle is the hardest.However to successfully create forward motion over a period of time to make it a habit, you have to consistently stay in forward motion daily.Done daily with enough repetition this can quickly become a habit that will be done with greater ease.Align with your life with a higher purpose and forward motion will be an easier process for you.To move in the direction of your priorities, take consistent action, no matter how small, move forward even you are taking a single step at a time, take new action, even if you if its for a few minutes.Reach big wins through a series of small wins.Every win is one step toward momentum.I encourage you to consi der what small changes you can make starting today that will result in a big difference in your life.Start small and trust that those changes will add up over time, ultimately providing you with significant results.Dig deeperIf you enjoyed this post, you will love Postanly Weekly, my free weekly digest of the best posts about behaviour change that affect health, wealth, and productivity. Join over 50,000 people on a mission to build a better life. Courses Thinking in Models, and Kaizen Habits.This article first appeared on Medium.