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Principle of the Week: Executing Good Habits
You’ve been deflecting for weeks now — avoiding the one thing you know you need to do. Every day you walk into your office and decide to put it off. No, it’s not buying the Christmas gift for your wife (although you should probably do that too). It’s not making the phone call to the one client you really don’t want to talk to. It’s building the business plan for next year.
But since we talked about it last week, I’m going to assume you’ve done that (right?). So now that the plan exists, the real question becomes: how do we execute it?
We start by accomplishing one thing.
It doesn’t have to take all day or be something excruciating that you dread. All we’re looking for is getting 1% better every day. James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, explains it this way: if you improve by just 1% each day for a year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better than when you started. Small wins — or small setbacks — don’t stay small. They compound.
So if improving by just 1% a day can create that kind of growth, what’s stopping us?
In my opinion, it’s unrealistic expectations.
We live in a world that wants results now. We want a six-pack after a week in the gym. We want our coffee five minutes ago. We want success tomorrow. But that’s not how it works. We start with the vision, develop the plan, and then execute the habits every single day.
Think about it like this. You plant a small oak tree in your backyard. The next morning, you look out the window and nothing has changed. A week goes by — still no noticeable growth. Is something wrong with the tree? No. Beneath the surface, the roots are taking hold. It’s absorbing nutrients. The process has already started.
The tree’s DNA is programmed for growth. Every day, it’s doing exactly what it was designed to do. A year from now, it’s taller. Five years later, it’s fuller. Eventually, it produces acorns and nourishes the ecosystem around it.
We’re no different.
Growth requires commitment. It takes determination to fight through the storms and patience to accept that progress may not show up tomorrow. But if we’re willing to persevere — to improve by just 1% every day — the results will come.
Be Principled,
Caleb
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