Small changes can create a transformative effect on your career

Change Your habits to change your life

Habits  shape your identity and your identity shapes your habits – it is a two way street. The formation of all habits is a feedback loop – your values, principles and identity should drive the loop rather than your results.

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. By combining your skills, you reduce the level of competition, which makes it easier to stand out. You can shortcut the need for a genetic advantage (or for years of practice) by rewriting the rules. A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses.

Well accomplishing one extra task is a small feat on any given day but it counts a lot over an entire career. The answer is when you accomplish a task you now know how that can be handled so in future your brain gets into automated mode , the more task you can handle without thinking your brain is free to focus on other areas. Learning new idea won’t make you genius but a commitment to life long learning can be transformative. When you read a book it not only teaches you something new but also opens different ways of thinking about old ideas.

  So Habits are the compound interest of self- improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. 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.

Your identity emerges out of your habits every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.