Do you want to know one very powerful way of getting an edge on anything that you want in life? Either its loosing weight, getting this job you're looking for, taking over an opponent... just about anything...
... DO MORE!
That's it. Do more. Just when ever you think you're done, do one last think that will give you just this incremental advance.
If you work in sales and the others do 80 calls a day. Do 81. That will be about 260 more calls than average per year. Who's going to get lucky sooner or later?
You swim, swim a little longer. You run 5 Km. Try 5.1 Km next time. You list 100 pounds on the bench press? Try 102 pounds next time... You get the idea. Just incremental improvement and its amazing what difference this would make at the end of the year.
The Japaneses have a word for this: Kizen. Which could be translated as "continuous incremental imporvement".
One last example. Lets say you want to write a novel. You always push its start to the next day. Because I your head the task is so huge and there is so much amount of hours to commit, your brain gets over driven before you get started. But what if you tell yourself that you'll do a page a day. No more that a single page per day. But no less than a page. That's 365 pages at the end of the year. You got yourself a book right there.
So start today. Ask yourself, on each task that you are doing: "what is the little thing that I can do on this before I leave the task?"
I don't know who said it but someone said:"Work every hour of your day, and you will accomplish more that anyone". This is so true.
Start today. Do more. And its amazing what you will accomplished at the same time next year.
