Most of us want powerful outcomes, we just can’t wait long enough for them. Hence, diet failures, relationship failures, work failures, financial failures, athletic failures, etc. and lots of “I tried!” and “It didn’t work!” excuses.
In Atomic Habits, author James Clear explains that not just money, but all the things we most desire are subject to the compounding process; a very slow and almost invisible build while we cross the tortuous “plateau of latent potential” to reach the powerful outcomes.
The plateau is a very discouraging place, survived only by those who believe their daily actions are not wasted. Just stored.
Tiny atom-sized changes. Big results.
Atomic Habits: a book of hope.
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