The concept of compounding is drawn from the world of finance.
Wizards preach this to investors and advise them to begin investing early, even
if that means smaller sums regularly. I wish to draw a parallel to the world of
learning, and changing.
I wrote about resolutions couple of days ago, and I did talk about
the weakening drives that bring people back to square one. I wish to now harp a
bit on ‘procrastination’ which sends people off guard whenever they think of
changing, improving or taking a new position from their state of homeostasis.
The inertia keeps building up all the time and the discomfort of leaving their ‘current’
comfort zone becomes a barrier to change.
Many a times, the times elapsed before initiating a change becomes
so irrelevant that most either take a step forward and return to earlier behaviours,
or the change is made bit too late to fetch desired results in the context of
time. Think of practical examples around us, the need to lose weight before
entering the risk zone, balancing work life to manage stress, investing time
and energy on succession at business, diagnosing a disease early, reacting to
markets at the right time (Already thinking KODAK or WALKMAN?) have their own
advantages and the results are much more disproportionately rewarding.
I urge that we quickly begin thinking of such most needed changes
around us, or at least start identifying those as the first step. Think of
habits you want to quit, recover focus on key areas of life, take decisions
head on and with rationale than delaying them, build goals and begin with an
end in mind, or take inevitable calls before they change you.
I
strongly recommend that professional help is sought on various areas to
sometimes even help knowing what and why needs to be changed. A change initiated
today, even with some rate of failures will impel us forward and fetch much
higher dividends. In context of time this builds up to grow, and compound on
those who successfully transit into their new world of possibilities and
abundance. www.thegrowthevangelist.com
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