In my conversations with you, you tell me about the trips you’re going on and often email me from your trip to let me know you’ll call me back when you’re stateside.
Later this month, some of you will be cruising the Greek Isles, checking out the Egyptian pyramids, visiting your son in the south of France during his class “studies,” going back home to the Netherlands, and meeting up with friends in Spain and then Portugal.
And the list goes on. When you think about it, as a group, you are all compounding memories, improving your knowledge of the world. Because compounding isn’t only about investing. It’s about improvement, much like the Japanese philosophy kaizen: Continuous, incremental improvement—small, steady changes that compound into big results. In other words, change for the better.
When Your Survival Guy worked at Fidelity Investments, this was the philosophy espoused by Fidelity Investments’s visionary leader, Edward “Ned” C. Johnson III. He would write about it in his company memos, and he encouraged it as a way of life for everyone at his family business.
When I talk with you about your life, you tell me about the things you worked on to get to where you are. How you saved ‘til it hurt, showed up every day to run your business or do your job. You tell me about how you found a way to “change your life for the better,” and how you found success.
And now we’re enjoying talking about it, and you tell me how you’re going to spend some of the fruits from your labor.
Action Line: Remember, you did the work to get to where you are, and it didn’t happen by accident. You are my favorite success story. Tell me about what’s on your mind. I want to hear from you. Email me at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com.
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Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.