Rob Dial explains how small habits compound into success. He uses a gym example: extending a 10-minute warm-up by a few seconds builds the discipline that leads to bigger wins. Over-deliver on tiny tasks every day, and those habits translate into extraordinary results.
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Happy Friday. This is Rob Dial coming to you from my house in Austin, Texas. And I wanted to send a video out to give you a little bit of a prep on today's episode of the MWF motivation podcast so you can listen to this and then understand what the podcast is all about and the episode. What I talk about today is how you do one thing, is how you do everything. And what I mean by it is this. This is something that I realized when I was at the gym a few days ago, where my goal was to warm up for 10 minutes on the treadmill before I went into my workout. And I did 10 minutes and 30 seconds. That seems like nothing. It seems like just a little bit extra. But what I used to do is I used to do 9 minutes and 50 seconds, and then I'd start to slow down because I was getting very close to my goal. But it's just a little bit extra that makes people successful and make people have a really extraordinary life. So what I mean by it is this. How you do one thing is how you do everything. If I was allowing myself to come up short on my goal of going to 10 minutes on just a warmup, something that's that small and insignificant, then where else am I allowing myself to come up short? Where else in the world am I not following through exactly the way that I should? If I'm not following through on something that small, I'm probably not following through on something that's really large. So success is not one or two really big things done perfectly. Success is habits. Small, little, tiny habits don't done over and over and over again. And so if you want to be successful and you want to have an extraordinary life, don't just follow through on the big things. Follow through and go over and above on everything that you do. So my mission for you today, no matter what you do, if you're your own boss or if you have a boss, whatever your goal is today, or whatever your boss asks you to do, go over and above just a little bit and make it your mission to start doing that, start creating those habits. Because if you do the little tiny things and you go over and above, you will absolutely go over and above on all of the big things that you do. And that is one of the keys to having a very successful, very extraordinary life. So with that, I hope that you have an amazing day and an absolutely amazing weekend as well.
