Start Stacking Up Wins.. An Essential Habit for Success

A lot of people wonder about what they should do if they want to be successful. Should they read more? Work out? Listen to podcasts?

I'd say one of the most important things to learn when it comes to chasing your dreams is the idea of momentum and "stacking up wins".

This idea is kind of like the snowball effect: when a snowball is rolling down a hill, it picks up more and more momentum as it continues to roll.. Thus it gets bigger and bigger and moves faster and faster and results in a larger impact.

Stacking up wins is the same idea. Wins can be really small things like reading for 10 minutes in the morning or meditating for 10 minutes. Or you can have 2 quick wins in the morning by meditating for 10 minutes and then following that up with a 10 minute reading session. Just like that the first 20 minutes of your day resulted in 2 wins that will propel you the rest of the day to get more wins.

If you get 1 win, you're more likely to get another win and another... and another.

There's something very obvious about winners: they win. They don't just win once, they win every day. Let's use swimming as an example:

A gold medal olympic swimmer wins every single day. They wake up, they hit the pool and they win in their own practice session.

They go home, they prepare a great and nutritious meal that pushes them towards their goals and thus they win again.

Eventually it's time to compete and all of those daily wins have snowballed them to this point. They've built up all this momentum and now it's time to unleash it in competition. It's time for them to take all the wins they've stacked up and leverage them for an even bigger win: another gold medal.

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I implore you to win at least 1 thing today. Win by reading or meditating for 10 minutes. Or win by doing something that you've been meaning to do but have been putting off.

Just win once and you'll feel that momentum build up.