The ten percent advantage makes building momentum easier. Every 10% increase, either daily or weekly, becomes a precipitating event on its own - it will trigger positive emotions. As you continue to make progress, you associate every "incremental 10%" with a change in performance. This constant rhythm will turn into a chain reaction , as Sakyong Mipham describes it: "Bit by bit, it starts to make sense. (The progress) begins to leak into other aspects of your life."

Keep change simple. Focus. The first steps are meant to start building confidence, not to change everything overnight. If you start small, a 10% increase might seem insignificant. Once again, focus on gaining momentum. Soon, those incremental ten percents - building one on top of another - will become visible. The most effective behavior change is organic and invisible - you will notice the team winning the game, not the small changes they were making to get there.

The antidote to inertia "Change has to be hard because you're fighting against inertia." ― James Thornton When you are exhausted, change feels hard (or even impossible). Most people wake up in the morning full of dreams - they want to change themselves completely.

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Should you take the job with the higher pay, but longer commute? What's the best way to <a href="https://blog.trello.com/why-your-to-do-list-is-going-nowhere">prioritize your too-long list of tasks </a>? How much time should you give a struggling relationship before calling it quits? All of us have probably experienced the pain of indecision in tough scenarios like these, and even after deciding, have had the creeping suspicion that maybe we made the wrong choice. When it comes to decision-making strategies, though, the typical advice isn't a whole lot of help: follow your heart, go with your gut, make a list of pros and cons. What about real, actionable strategies to overcome indecision when these approaches fail?

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For the longest time I foud it difficult to explain the concept of usefulness and happiness. But when I recently ran into a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the dots connected. Emerson says: "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." And I didn't get that before I became more conscious of what I'm doing with my life. And that always sounds heavy and all. But it's actually really simple.

For the longest time, I believed that there's only one purpose of life: And that is to be happy. Right? Why else go through all the pain and hardship? It's to achieve happiness in some way. And I'm not the only person who believed that.

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