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Micro Wins

 


Small daily, seemingly insignificant improvements, when done consistently over time yield staggering results. 

(Robin Sharma)

The concept of “micro wins” is a postulation of Robin Sharma, in his book, “The 5 AM Club”. He said that a great life is not built by revolution alone but by evolution. According to Sharma, small and steady wins the race and what you do every day is far more important than what you do once every decade. Hence, what you do every day is simply your entire life in miniature, and as you live every day, you are crafting your life, future, and eternity. 

Whenever we hear of someone's success story, we often think such person became a success overnight. However, there is no success or any worthy accomplishment that has ever been achieved overnight. Every big success is an accumulation of bit and pieces of micro, silent daily, seemingly insignificant wins. By implication, your future wining starts with how you capitalize every single day. 

Each day is a gift and the act of living is the art of unpacking the gift, what you do with it is all yours for the taking. What you will be in the next five or ten years starts with what you do with every passing day. Your daily decisions, the discipline to follow through with the decisions, your actions and inactions all sum up over the years to culminate into the man or woman you will end up becoming. The task, therefore, depends on what you do with each day. 


You can make each day a masterpiece. You can have micro wins every day, you can grow every day, you can become better every day, and you can expand your knowledge every day. Succinctly, you can become a better version of yourself every day.  This may sound so cheap and easy and too good to be true, how about it is realistic and within your reach? You see the difference between the people with the “I can’t” mentality and those with the “I can” mentality is hard work, discipline, and a touch of faith. 

So how will you make each day a masterpiece? How will you make each day a micro win? How do you add to your yesterday’s success today? How do you grow and become better cumulatively? Well, by simply deciding that you will grow and have all it takes to grow and become better daily. Making each day a micro win and masterpiece is the interplay of two important undisputable variables as posited by John Maxwell in his book “Make Today Count” – decision and discipline. If we must make each day count, get the best out of it and make it a micro win that will accumulate into a big victory in the future, we must learn the art and act of fusing decision and discipline in our lives. 


What do you do when you first wake up? How do you approach each day? Have you been making the best out of each day or you spent the whole day running after the day and letting it detect to you how to live? Regardless of what you do, you can be intentional about making each day a micro win.  First thing first, draw a map of your day, envisioned it in line with your occupation or routine, deliberately mark out the tasks to do and commit yourself into achieving those tasks. What you have done now is the decision or goal-setting aspect. The next course of action is following through with your plans otherwise known as the discipline to smash all your set goals. It won’t do you or anyone else any good to set goals or make decisions but fail to follow through with them.

History makers are those who make each day count and get the best out of it. We are here today, tomorrow we may be no more. What we do with each day will largely determine what we get out of life while we are alive and whether we will be remembered or fade away like the stars of the morning when we are no more.

Start today, be deliberate and intentional about your life. Decide to make each day a micro win, and be disciplined enough to follow through with the decision you've made. Let it be said of you that you lived and made each day a masterpiece.


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  1. COLD FIRE7 February 2021 at 06:29

    Well put, may we bring ourselves to do what it takes.

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