Do you want your life to change for the better? And, strongly and at once?
Most of my friends do. And there is nothing surprising in this. I myself, I confess, would not refuse a sudden and overwhelming good fortune.
But I am surprised by the disappointment and even irritation with which people sometimes perceive progress if it is not fast and not significant.
For the sake of improving their standard of living, say, by 1%, many of them will not even get up from the couch. For them, it will seem more reasonable to watch TV at this time. Or speculate with a neighbor about the criminal policy of the West.
Now, if they had turned up a case that instantly increased their well-being at times — then another matter! Then they would get up from this couch. And they would even go to the barricades for the sake of such prospects (no matter how realistic).
And to spend not only a month or a day — an hour of your life for the sake of a trifling movement forward — this seems to many to be unnecessarily wasteful. An empty waste of energy. And therefore they abandon plans that do not promise them dizzying success easily and quickly.
But let’s not rely on our own feelings. And let’s calculate purely mathematically — how wasteful is such an investment of forces in reality?
What happens if you don’t discount such «insignificant» changes? And set a clear and clear goal — improve your life by «only» 1%, but DAILY.
For the convenience of calculations, we will assume that your current state of affairs is 100%.
This means that if you do something today to improve it by a percentage, tomorrow it will be 101.
The day after tomorrow — 102 (01% of 1).
A day later — 103,0301.
And so on.
My calculations show that after 365 such “banal” days, this value will be 3…
That is, in a year you will improve your life by almost 38 times!
Agree, not weak!
PS This is exactly how, according to my feelings, my son is now developing (he is 9 months old). It seems that every day he masters such an insignificant skill that it is elementary to overlook and not note it. But in less than a year, his progress is simply amazing.