Life Is Cumulative
One of the most important ‘life lessons’ I’ve learned in the past 12 months or so is that life is cumulative. Jim Rohn said that in life you have the choice to accumulate equity or regret. One of the key points in what he was saying is that equity and regret aren’t outcomes that happen in the course of a week, a month or even a year. Quite often the equity or the regret comes just a little piece at a time. So little, in fact, that you may not even notice it until that cumulative effect of years of making a few bad judgements here and there brings everything crashing down.
So, how does that relate to building a home based business?
This cumulative effect relates to just about everything in your life. Relationships, attitudes, health, income, good habits, bad habits… everything! In business we have the choice to watch our business closely. We can track the results and tweak it to improve the bottom line. We can try different techniques and compare various tactics.
Or… we can simply put a website online and hope that we become wealthy.
The cumulative effect of testing, tracking, tweaking and analyzing is that we are constantly becoming better in the way we do business. We are finding out what works and what doesn;t work and making changes that help build and grow the business.
The cumulative effect of hope is usually despair. Despair because we didn’t get smarter and the business didn’t grow and the end result may well have been that the whole exercise was just a costly waste of time. And you know how it goes with days. You only get each day once, so wasting days is far more costly than wasting money.
So, if you have never thought about the cumulative effect of everything you do and the way it can affect your life, I’d suggest that a good place to start would be by reading Darren Hardy’s book titled The Compound Effect. Best selling author, Harvey Mackay summed Darren’s book up perfectly when he said “Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual for success, so Darren Hardy has written one for you. The Compound Effect shows you how small, smart choices add up to transform your life. You can purchase The Compound Effect by visiting Darren Hardys blog.
