The importance of micro steps

The other day I was doing a yoga session and the instructor asked us to intentionally lengthen our tailbone. In doing so, I felt a stretch that I had never experienced before, even while doing that same posture which I had done a dozen times before.

It got me thinking, how many times I’ve failed to see the micro-steps and shifts and how much they impact my progress.

I realized that micro steps are a huge part of personal development and high-performance living.

The challenge is that we fail to see the power of micro steps.

We insist that we must have huge stretch goals, from where we are to where we're going to be successful. And that's simply not true. In high performance coaching, we gauge our current circumstances on a scale of one through ten. We don’t coach clients to jump from a three to a nine, instead we ask what would take you from a three to a five. The micro steps help us gain necessary momentum to keep pushing.

There are micro steps we can identify in our lives that will have an incredible impact on our success. Is it one more push up? One more sales call? One more chapter or podcast of personal development? All these investments add up over time like compound interest and yet we place little to no value on them.

If you were to challenge your thinking around micro improvements like I have, what would you start doing today?

If you’re still not convinced, think about a plane on its path to a destination. One degree off course will have the plane land in a completely different region than intended. One degree difference in the temperature of water is all that’s needed to get it boiling or not!

What would take your life to a boiling point, lit up, fired up and turned up a gear? Perhaps the secret does lie in a tiny adjustment that will build your self confidence, increase your momentum and have you reaping the rewards you’re striving for in closer reach than you can imagine!