The goal had always been there.
It was only when they implemented a system of continuous small improvements that they achieved a different outcome.
- Atomic Habits
Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.
A handful of problems arise when you spend too much time thinking about your goals and not enough time designing your systems.
If you can get 1% better each day for one year,
You'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you're done.
Conversely, If you get 1% worse each day for one year,
You'll end decline nearly down to zero.
- Atomic Habbits
Changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compund into remarkable results,
If you're willing to stick with them for years.
- Atomic Habbits