Consistency, Compounding and Being Grounded

Welcome to the Growth Guide, a weekly newsletter where I share actionable ideas to help you Be Better, Achieve More and Become Financially Free.

Be Better

This week on the Growth Guide Podcast we talked to Brad Stulberg, author of The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success that Feeds - Not Crushes - Your Soul, which focuses on the model of groundedness, a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is non-linear and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain.

We talked about the negative impacts of heroic individualism and how we can use groundedness to solve it.

Too many of us constantly push to achieve more. We miss out on the contentment of what we’ve already accomplished and what we currently have.

While it's beautiful to:

  • Care about what you do

  • Find fulfillment in it

  • Love it

It isn’t worth the price of never being able to turn it off.

Listen to the The Growth Guide Podcast 

Achieve More

Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

- Dwayne Johnson

To be great, Embrace the Suck.

Embrace the Suck long enough to be good.

Be good long enough until you become great.

To go from Suck → Good → Great, use Consistency.

You can read more about the power of consistency here.

Become Financially Free

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.

- Albert Einstein

Einstein was right.

But, the problem is we aren’t taught how powerful compound interest is.

If I offered you $1 billion dollars today or $1 on January 1st and agreed to double that amount every day through January 31st, what would you choose?

The average person would take $1 billion dollars, and

They’d be wrong.

Read more about the power of compounding here.

A Thought

I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote lately:

Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health.

- Dalai Lama

A Question

What are you sacrificing for the pursuit of money?

Etc.

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