Do Small Things Great

Some of the greatest developers of leaders in the industry of personal development agree that it is crucial that we do small things great. This is important for so many reasons. If you examine your triumphs in life this true principle is the root cause of your success. In your life in all the areas there are only about a handful of things that you need to focus on doing well the rest are complimentary and yield a much lower return on investment.

1) Write down the area of your life that you will focus on. In this example I will use family.
2) Gain awareness of the things you do well, of the things you have not mastered yet.
3 a) Write down the things that yield the highest return on your time investment.
3 b) this may take an outside source of information. If you know someone who is an example of a good father, mother, etc. invite them out to eat and find out what works for them
4) Don't take this to humorously, you might even invite someone who is really bad out to eat to find out what not to do as well.
5) Once you have identified the five key things that will yield the biggest return on investment of your energy get to working on it.
6) Practice makes permanent. This is an error in the phrases that most people know but I did it on purpose. Permanence is achieved through repeated behavior. The areas you are lacking doing the 5 things you identified well in, you have practiced another behavior in its place.
7) Track your consistency. The only way to change a habit or behavior is to take it and repeat it over and over. You will not likely succeed if your progress stays up in your head where your emotions can skew the activity, put it on paper and track how you are doing.
8) Track without judgment. You are doing better then you were in these areas before you knew about them, don't judge if you go back to inefficient behaviors of before, after all it is what you knew the best.
9) Don't expect the outside results to change immediately. It can take time for results to occur, it is not unlike planting seeds, cultivating and then harvesting. Some seeds sewn (activities) show immediate results still the more rewarding results can take a season even two to see the payoff.
10) Reward your progress. If you don't see some incentive for the activities then you may not make the full departure from the old ways. Reward yourself with something meaningful.

The 5 things in each area of your life are daily activities that are easy to do, but due to the comfort zone they are also easy not to. Work to master them and there will be rich blessings given.

Joshua Andrus
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