I love compounding.
Most people don’t think like this. And that’s OK.
I’m one of those people who loves to invest for years to create high-leverage flywheels.
Doing the small things every day that can turn into big things.
Almost everything we have now is a result of years of doing things that either improved our future or created difficult problems for us.
Our relationships, families, health, finances, mental health, and careers.
All sit on the shelf of everything we have done for years and decades to get us here. For better or for worse.
Good habits, sacrifices, discipline, showing up, improving every month, learning, eating better, saving and investing.
Doing the work of moving a bad habit and replacing it with a better one.
The hard work that takes 5 years and 100 attempts. Until you get it.
The sacrifice and commitment to do something for 10 years with no payoff. Until you get a massive payoff.
How can I get that kind of result?
Start 10 years ago doing very small things every day. Improve every month. Turn them into bigger things.
The power in finding the habits and systems that create value and leverage in the future. Not every habit or sacrifice yields a payoff.
Bad habits, bad food, bad friends, and bad addictions also compound.
I’m one of the weird people who think that most of the problems people have could have been solved by eating well, exercising hard, learning something every day, avoiding addictions, saving and investing yesterday, showing up for years and years, and being nice.
I’m not perfect. But I can see that everything that isn’t going well for me isn’t a quick fix and will take time and effort to change.
I love that very few people — or companies — will do the work and strive to improve every day.
There is very little competition on the other side of 10 years of constant improvement, overcoming hard challenges, and doing the right thing.
It’s a moat. Almost nobody does it, I’m finding.
But many do. We see them showing up every day in the gyms, in the office, for their employees, for their customers, for their audiences.
The 10-year savvy grind that actually works. And creates huge payoffs.
The SaaS business that continually improves its product experience, gaining more customers than it loses each month. It’s a perpetual growth machine.
Build a great product, focus on your happiest customers, do great things for your employees, and improve the big stuff every quarter. You win big.
Even AI requires unusual, relentless, and savvy work to achieve the “easy magic.”
Creating a successful company is an exercise in compounding.
I love compounding. Do you?
