Small, consistent promises beat dramatic breakthroughs. Success compounds through identifying bottlenecks, solving them, and moving to the next one. Big wins are visible, but they rest on years of failures and small improvements most people never see.
a small promise that you can realistically make and keep that helps identify the next bottleneck that you need to solve to solve the bigger problem. And this idea that we can make a series of small promises that compound over time to solve a bigger situation or problem is, is how professionals behave. That's how we make actual progress. It's, it's not as thrilling as some sort of miraculous home run. And it's not as sexy as, you know, making the big swing and connecting and achieving it all at once. Most of the time when we see someone that has accomplished something really significant, what we see is the tipping point moment when all of the effort that went in, the the years, the decades of effort that went in that are totally unrecognized, that are full of failures and mistakes and misinterpretations and missteps. But through the commitment to the journey and through their ability to learn as they go and through their sequence of small promises, we see the end result. We think, well, that's what it takes. I have to, I have to go big. The secret to success in any endeavor is to, uh, to go small and go small frequently every day and commit to the journey and recognize that you may not actually accomplish what you set out to accomplish, but you'll probably accomplish something equally great, maybe even greater than what you initially
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