When you do less, you can rest more.
When you rest more, you’ll have more energy to do what’s hard.
When you do more of what’s hard, you’ll get ahead.
Don’t let people fool you into thinking you always have to do more—it’s a trap.
When you take your total energy and divide it amongst more tasks it equals less energy for all of the tasks: including (and most importantly) the hard ones.
And less energy for the hard tasks is how you fall behind.
Don’t fall for it.
Do less.
Or are you…
Lazy is usually a symptom; not a character trait.
1% gains is the philosophy that guides my life.
Each day, I try to:
But, I don’t always reach this goal.
Sometimes, what 1% gains ACTUALLY looks like is:
While 1% might feel infinitely achievable… the reality is, we’re imperfect creatures immersed in an imperfect world and we have to account for the ebb and flow of life.
There will be days when you’re feeling it and crush your daily tasks (maybe even with 2-5% gains)… and there will be days when you’re not feeling it and you dip into the negatives.
Don’t let this discourage you—stay the path.
Keep investing in yourself like you would your retirement investment account. Continue to reinvest with the goal of the overall average being a 1% increase rather than the actual increase being 1% every single day.
The real power of the gains come from the long-term compounding of regular reinvestments. Just ask your financial advisor. Trying to get a forever positive return on any stock/fund in the market simply isn’t practical. And neither is a forever positive return on any task you undertake in life.
You don’t get 1% returns each and every single day.
You get 1% returns on average over the course of years and years of regular investing.
THAT is how you get the real 10/15/30% gains and that is how you get the most out of your personal development habits in life.
Stay. The. Path.
There are no perfect people helping imperfect people.
Only imperfect people helping other imperfect people.
Don’t let perfectionism hold you back from helping—it’s a lie.
You’ll always be imperfect and now is always a good time to help—no matter how imperfect you may feel.
Today’s post was inspired by this tweet from Jeremy Ginn. Thank you.
When things are easy… less of you is required.
And if you only do what’s required… you’ll end up becoming less.
Less than what your god-given potential is capable of becoming.
Want to become more?
Well… Remember this when things get hard.
We’ll see how badly you really want it.
P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.
I sit for 20 minutes Look at the clock And realize it’s only been 3 What’s wrong with me? 20 minutes goes by in 3 When I look at a screen? Why does sitting alone Without the company of a screen Screech things to an unbearable halt? Why can’t I just be? Here with myself Without nervously checking The pixels that seem to control me?
Sounds like a contradiction, eh?
Well, with this one ingredient, you can change everything about your day while simultaneously changing nothing about your day.
What’s that ingredient you ask?
Intentionality.
With intention, everything we do changes:
Sprinkle a little intention into every task of your day and watch how everything changes without even one task being added or subtracted or moved.
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