Hit Your Goals With One Simple Daily Tactic

The Commit To Three tactic will help you focus on what's most important each day.

In his runaway bestselling book, Atomic Habits, author James Clear did the math on the effect of improving by one percent each day for one year. He calculated that you’ll get thirty-seven times better due to a compounding effect. 

We often are led to believe that personal and professional breakthroughs happen in an instant because that is how it looks from the outside looking in. Instead, as with investing, massive gains come from small daily growth that multiplies over time.

When a tech unicorn secures a billion-dollar valuation, we see the headline of overnight success, not the thousands of days spent perfecting the product and building the business. When a sprinter wins a gold medal, we see the 10-second race, but not the years of meticulous daily training that made it possible.

The reality is that to achieve many of your most important long-term goals, you only need to accomplish a small number of things each day that keep building momentum.

I’ve found the best way to do this is a simple tactic I call “Commit To Three.” Here’s how it works.