Hi All!
I hope your workweek is coming to a relaxing end. Here are your weekly tips and tricks, just in time for the weekend.
1. We all want what successful people have, but few are willing to pay the price they paid to get it.
We all want to achieve success in one form or another: Some want popularity and be known for some special talent, others want to own a million dollars and live a life of abundance. Standing out from the crowd and living a life of purpose is what many of us wish for, but what few have. This is because attaining success is a difficult task; You need to make sacrifices and, in some cases, put everything on the line.
2. The things you do consistently on a daily basis define who you are.
Your habits are the way that you embody a particular identity. If you have the habit of making your bed every morning, you embody the identity of an organized person. Or if you are someone who exercises daily (habit), you behave like a healthy person (identity). Whenever you perform a habit, you’re casting a vote for who you believe you are.
Your Weekly Digest: Small Improvements
You can achieve tremendous success if you make small consistent improvements in your life. Read about astronomy for half an hour every day, and in a few years, you will know the same information about celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a knowledgeable astronomer. Exercise your muscles three times per week and make consistent improvements to your sleep and nutrition, and in a few years, you will have the physique of a bodybuilder.
To achieve these kinds of accomplishments you need to put in consistent work. Reading a few pages just one time doesn’t make you a genius. Exercising once doesn’t get you in shape. In this week’s article on MikevanderPoel.com, “Why Crossing the Plateau of Latent Potential Is Essential for Success”, I discuss the importance of consistency and why small improvements often don’t show for months or years to come.
Success doesn’t show immediately because there is a lag time between the results you expect and the results you actually get—This phenomenon is called The Plateau of Latent Potential. We expect effort and progress to have a linear relationship when, in fact, they work more like compound interest. Success is the result of stacking small layers of improvement on top of each other until, one day, their effect becomes so noticeable that you look like an overnight success.
Until next week,
Mike van der Poel
P.S. This week’s article includes an audio version, for those who are too busy to read
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