Flushing 6,570 pieces of dental floss over 9 years will clog your toilet. It’s a broader life lesson I relearned last weekend:
Tiny actions taken consistently over time create massive results.
Bad habits = clogged toilets. Good habits = the life you dream of.
James Clear wrote about this in Atomic Habits:
“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement… They seem to make little difference on any given day… It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.”
I keep that in mind when I question the value of daily habits like meditating or writing content or working out.
Today will not be very different if I do – or do not – do any of those things.
But the next decade will be unrecognizable in comparison.
