How can a one percent change give you 100% returns? As long as you remain consistent with a change in your plan--no matter how minor--you can double your income or do anything else in life that you want.
If you make only a 1% change, it can double you income as long as you stick to it.
You may be wondering how this can be true. After all, doubling your income requires not one percent but 100% change, right? (Or even 200% depending on how you look at it.) Actually it doesn't--if you're consistent.
Think about a ships sailing from the coast of Spain to the coast of Canada. Let's say that the captain has a course plotted out in a straight line for Nova Scotia (navigation doesn't really work this way but the example is sound).
If the captain deviates from this course by even 1%, well, he can probably make it out of the port just fine. In fact, anyone watching would never notice anything amiss.
But if the captain steers his ship just 1% to the left or right, he'll end up in either the North Pole or Miami Beach!
Changing your own life even one percent can hold the same value for you--if you do it consistently. You can double your income, double your free time, or double pretty much anything else you want as long as you stick with consistent change.
Why consistency is the most important thing when it comes to changing your life.
If you want to double your income--or make any other major change in life--daily consistency is more important that occasional flurries of activity.
Weightlifting is a great example. Do you thing that anyone who can do a set of curls with 100 pound dumbbells, got that way by working out eight hours a day every other weekend? It's a lot more likely they got that way by exercising for an hour or two every day, increasing the weight little by little.
An example more relevant to increasing your income is that of the salesperson who tries to get the majority of his or her sales done in the last week of the month, vs. the one that adds one extra cold call every day of the week, every week of the year.
The salesperson who tries to make up for lost commission at the end of the week is going to feel pressed for time and pressured about money. If you've ever worked in sales (or had to deal with a pushy or desperate salesperson), you know this can really kill a sale.
The sales rep that simply makes one extra cold call every day, however, is likely to increase his or her income quite a bit. In fact, in many industries, 20 extra cold calls every month will result in six or seven extra sales that month--quite a bit of extra commission!
Of course, you don't have to be in sales to double your income this way. Apply the same extra effort to your own life if you want to double your income!
