The Slight Edge
A colleague told me earlier today that Baird & Warner has high expectations of me and my ability to produce. In fact, she wants to buy me lunch and “pick my brain” about how it is I do what I do. Of course it’s flattering. But the truth is they are making way too big of a deal about what I actually do on a daily basis. There is no silver bullet, no magic potion, no secret password that opens the door to success. There are only the small, daily things - easy to do, easy NOT to do - that, over the course of time, make all the difference. For example - choosing to eat an apple vs. eating a candy bar or walking for 30 minutes vs. staying in bed. At the time, the impact of one choice over the other is pretty meaningless. It doesn’t feel like eating an apple vs. eating a candy bar or taking that 30 min walk really makes much of a difference. But over the course of a year, two years, 5 - 10 - it makes all the difference in the world. Successful people just keep on doing the small, incremental things day in/day out that over time make all the difference in their performance and their ability to produce results. That’s pretty much it. Nothing too magical or glamorous about that. Doing them with passion and exuberance, of course, only helps things along.
“All Things With Exuberance!”
mary!
