Short Term Win is The Best Indicator of Long Term Success

• The key to success lies in achieving many small wins instead of trying to reach one big accomplishment.
• This principle is called “chunking” and it can be used for anything that you are trying to do.
• You might not see the progress at first, but focusing on your small wins will help you maintain focus throughout the process.

• Long-term success is a series of small wins: don’t underrate tiny victories
• When we take on a large task, we often become overwhelmed and demotivated. This is likely because we feel like we have to make a huge change in order to get anywhere.
• The opposite approach — small changes that lead to big results — is much more effective.

• What separates high achievers from average people is their ability to break down any goal into a series of small wins.
• They’re able to break down the big picture into manageable day-to-day tasks or actions.

• The power of small wins is a phenomenon in psychology where people who commit to a certain goal over a long period of time are more likely to succeed if they break down that goal with smaller, incremental steps.
• Some people call this the “spider monkey effect” because it reminds them of a spider monkey climbing up a tree by reaching for one branch at a time.

• The small wins strategy is the best way to show your brain that change is happening.
• It’s a technique that can be applied to everything from weight loss, quitting smoking, and getting out of debt.
• Breaking your larger goal down into smaller milestones can help you achieve them faster.

Here’s a simple process that can you can use:

1. Pick a time frame: Create a timeline for your long-term goal: make you the steps toward accomplishing it are manageable, achievable and realistic.
2. Don’t overwhelm yourself: Break down larger tasks into smaller ones and set deadlines for the tiny actions — that way the task becomes more manageable.
3. Keep track and measure: writedown your progress, celebrate the small victories and do more of what gets you closer to the bigger goal.

• When you are striving to be successful, it is easy to get lost in the long term.
• It can be draining to think about where you want to be in five years when right now the only thing you care about is making it through the day.
• Successful people focus on short-term wins.
• They know that long-term success is too big of a goal to tackle all at once, so they break it down into manageable tasks, and work their way up.

• Achieving long term success in any endeavour is the result of consistently doing the right things.
• Achieving long-term success is hard. It can take so much time and energy, and it’s hard to measure long term progress.
• But your short-term victories will add up in your favour: it’s how you keep the momentum going on a daily basis.