
By Tom Connellan
It only feels like lately have we been told exactly how to eat an elephant.
This whole notion of breaking things down into chunks still feels like a relatively recent epiphany. In the past we’ve set ourselves big, hairy, audacious goals and set about them with vigour and reckless abandon.
But all of a sudden things seem achieveable. And it’s simply because we’ve zoomed in to our big picture objectives to understand the latticework of tasks required to accomplish them.
This in small measure is the thesis embodied by Tom Connellan in his book, Change Your World in 71 Days: How to Get Maximum Results From Minimum Change (yeah, he used ‘change’ twice on the cover. Odd choice).
Instead of trying to upset the universe by brutalising yourself into a holistic transformation, set about it by improving yourself a little at a time.
Tom suggests a 1% improvement every day. It’s not so easy quantifying change in yourself, but I approve and appreciate the theory and think it’s something we can all use as an approximate marker with which to work.
This book is packed with techniques you can use to chart your progress and stick to the plan. It reassures with methods that we can all use. You don’t need fancy technology to make this work. But you do need to be focused, determined, and ready to embrace with self-congratulation your miniature steps of growth towards finding that different person you wish to become.
Change Your World in 71 Days: How to Get Maximum Results From Minimum Change is available now on Amazon.

