As I spoke last week with one of the most important members of my team, I remembered how Krista came into my life. It’s been almost two years now since I was invited to do a teleclass for Leesa Barnes in Toronto.  Two women showed up on the call. Now Leesa assured me that more women would be listening to the recording of the call but nevertheless, two people showed up for the call.

How many of us would have thought - what a waste! I’m a failure! Only two people wanted to hear my information! It would have been really easy to go there and I remember still the thought - what?!?!? - 2 people. Not a lot to be excited about. However, I did the call and the women loved it. They both bought my CD available at the time and Krista, one of those two women, called me and booked a coaching session with me. For months, Krista and her husband worked with me to redesign their web design and programming business. 

Once I felt confident that their business was operating well, I sent some of my clients to Krista. Then Krista did all five of my websites earlier this year. She’s still working with me to build her business and I continue to send her business because she’s amazing. Today Krista and I have done over $25, 000 of combined business with each other. All from a phone call where two people showed up. Not bad, huh?

It’s natural to want BIG things in life! We want to lose 20 pounds this month. We want to earn $5,000 this week! We want to become a millionaire this year! We want to find the love of our life today! Sometimes, it’s easy to become so focused on the BIG things that we become discontented, depressed, and dissatisfied with life. Is there an area of your life like that? 

I absolutely love the little things in life! I get excited every time someone signs up for one of my newsletters. What a thrill when someone buys a book from me. My partner and I play Parcheesi when he is in town and we have kept a running score for months now. We laugh and tease each other as we tie in our score and then I get one ahead. He’s only been ahead once in more than 50 games. I love it! Now that’s a very little thing, yet the delight it brings me is hugely disproportionate to it’s importance in life!  I know that but I still love it! 

I love my body every day at the gym as it is working so hard to release the extra pounds that those little bowls of frozen yogurt created over the last 18 months. How that little thing added up so quickly still boggles my mind! They’re such little, little bowls!

Life is made up of the little things. So Larry King didn’t book you for his show. Oprah hasn’t come calling yet. A month ago, Michael Angier, founder of Successnet, one of the largest entrepreneur websites in the world phoned me. He had heard me do a teleclass for Michael Port months ago and had bought my book from Amazon. He now wanted to buy 68 of them for his Inner Circle. He also wants to interview me for an hour and send out the interview to his 93,000 database with a recommendation to buy my book. That all started with a little thing - an email to Michael Port asking if he would invite me as a guest on his Think Big Revolution call.   What are you doing to create the little things in life?

I can promise you from personal experience that it is truly the little things in life that make all the difference. In The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson reiterates this with plenty of examples. One that really hit hard for me was the cost of waiting to invest money. If at the age of 24 you started saving $2,000 at 12% interest and only did that for six years you would have at age 65, $1,074,968. Not bad for a little investment of $12,000! On the other hand if someone waited 6 little years and started at 30, they would have to continue investing $2,000 every single year until age 62 to arrive at the same place! That’s right. A little wait of six years cost 33 years of having to invest and $54,000 invested to arrive at the same place!

Does that hurt or what? So Jeff’s point: It’s never too late to start. It’s always too late to wait.  Even a “little” wait!

The man I love is in my life today because a client introduced us. He asked me to do an appointment with Greg on a Monday. Now my attitude is that I wouldn’t see the pope or even Oprah on Monday as a client - well maybe - but you know what I mean. I have been adamant for years now that I work on my business on Mondays, not in my business. But Greg, a medical doctor, could only have an appointment on Monday. Something inside, a very little voice said, “do the appointment with him”.  That was the start of an amazing relationship that brings us both buckets of joy each and every day. But it all started with a very little thing.

As so many people feel like their lives are missing something, they are missing out, they are unhappy or feeling unfulfilled, I am going to highly suggest that you start focusing on the little things. Take tiny steps every day to move towards what you want in your life. I recently read about a woman who lost over 200 pounds. She started walking. She could make it down the street 4 houses. The next week she could make it down the street 5 houses and so it went. Talk about little - but 200 pounds later, she got the results she wanted! What about you?  If you want BIG results, start little! 

Have an amazing month of seeing the little things in your life!

With love and light,

Jan

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