{"id":493,"date":"2025-01-14T18:51:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2025-06-13T19:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:08:48","slug":"the-power-of-extra-effort-how-small-choices-create-big-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Extra Effort: How Small Choices Create Big Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\nIn today\u2019s culture, working hard is often painted as \u201cuncool.\u201d The narrative seems to be: do just enough to get by, maximize leisure, and aim for \u201cwork-life balance\u201d\u2014a phrase increasingly used to justify the bare minimum at work. But what\u2019s lost in this perspective is the undeniable truth that a little extra effort, consistently applied, compounds into massive results over time.<\/o:p>\n\n<\/div>\n
Consider the small act of making two extra calls a day. In the moment, it feels like nothing. But over a month, that\u2019s 40 extra calls. Over a year? Nearly 500. Those additional touches could lead to more opportunities, deeper relationships, and, ultimately, greater success.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Or think about working one extra hour daily. It may not seem monumental, but over a year, it adds up to the equivalent of six extra work weeks. That\u2019s six weeks of learning, refining skills, and outperforming peers\u2014all without fanfare, just quiet consistency.<\/div>\n
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In my career, which ultimately led to me becoming a CEO and then creating my own consulting company, I consistently put in the extra effort\u2026 with a twist. I put some of my \u201cextra\u201d time into building stronger relationships with coworkers. Much of the rest of my extra time I put into self-improvement. I would do extra training, research, or systemize my work. This extra effort therefore felt more like an investment in myself rather than just completing more work for the company\u2014but we both benefited.<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The compound effect is real. As Darren Hardy explains in The Compound Effect<\/span><\/em> and James Clear emphasizes in Atomic Habits<\/span><\/em>, tiny, repeated actions, whether positive or negative, create exponential growth or decline. And it\u2019s not just about the visible output. The person who stays out drinking might show up, but they\u2019re operating at 75% capacity. Meanwhile, their colleague, rested and focused, is at 100%. That 25% difference compounds over days, months, and years, creating a chasm in performance and outcomes.<\/o:p><\/p><\/div>

This isn\u2019t about becoming a workaholic or burning out. It\u2019s about understanding that consistent, thoughtful efforts in work, health, or relationships\u2014builds extraordinary results over time. The difference isn\u2019t in grand gestures but in the daily decision to do just a little bit more. That effort adds up, and the rewards. They are real, and while others may benefit too, the big winner is you!<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In today\u2019s culture, working hard is often painted as \u201cuncool.\u201d The narrative seems to be: do just enough to get by, maximize leisure, and aim for \u201cwork-life balance\u201d\u2014a phrase increasingly used to justify the bare minimum at work. But what\u2019s lost in this perspective is the undeniable truth that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[48,51,40],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-people","category-growth-scalability","tag-company-culture","tag-small-business-growth","tag-vision-alignment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkbossconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}