Crawling to the Top: A Proven, Reasonable and Non-Sexual Way to Become Successful

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

You don't have to move mountains in record time to get results.

Personal finance research has revealed a common phenomenon called the Lifestyle Creep, which means a very slow, snail-like improvement in lifestyle. As income grows, we strive to buy things that look better, last longer, and do more.

For example, you got a promotion and now you will earn several thousand more per month. Instead of saving money and going on as usual, you buy a big TV, go to an expensive resort, or go to a designer clothing store.

The quality of life will creep up, and goods that were previously perceived as a luxury will become a necessity.

Changing human behavior is considered one of the toughest challenges in business and in life. Nonetheless, the phenomenon of unhurried rise in living standards shows a working way to change behavior in the long term.

But what happens when you apply the concept to the rest of your life?

Change the view of the norm

Let's list the popular financial goals.

• I want to buy designer jeans.
• I want to move to a big house.
• I want to drive a fast car.

And what's interesting is that these big goals are achieved as soon as we have the means to achieve them. When our purchasing power grows, so does the value of what we buy. This is how the standard of living is pumped.

What if the same side effects show up in other areas of your life? Compare goals:

• I want to gain 5 kg of muscle mass.
• I want to find a partner and start a family.
• I want to make a sum with six nines.
• I want to get the highest mark on the exam.
• I want to start a successful business.

Try to see gains or good grades as a side effect of improving your daily life.

In other words, as our habits improve, so do our results.

The idea that unattainable skills are becoming the norm can be called habit building.

Put it into practice

If you buy more than your bank account can handle, your standard of living does not creep up, you just run into debt. And if you make a bunch of decisions that you can't stick to, you won't upgrade your habits.

You need to get around the trap of wanting to change everything at once. Lifestyle changes so slowly that it is almost imperceptible. Habit change should be done in the same way. Behavior should be changed at the speed of a caterpillar.

There are two main ways to change your habits and improve your results over the long term.

1. Increase productivity little by little and every day (for most it seems too difficult).
2. Change the environment to remove minor annoyances and distractions (many don't even think about it).

Increase productivity

You are leading a normal life. Your current fitness level usually reflects how much you move. Let's say you take 8,000 steps a day. If you want to improve your form in accordance with the standard approach to change, you will start preparing for the race or start doing exercises. But with the Climb to the Tops concept, you need to add very little new to the standard. For example, walk 8,100 steps. Tomorrow - 8,200.

This logic can be applied to any area of life. You make the usual number of contracts at work, you read the usual number of books per month. If you want to be more successful, wiser, smarter, you can use the caterpillar method and achieve results simply by changing your daily routine.

Change the environment

We are surrounded by many things, and they define the environment in which we live. We take the cookies because they were on the table. We pick up a smartphone, because a message has come. We turn on the TV, because this is the first object that comes into view when we sit on the sofa.

If you change the situation in the little things (hide the cookies in the pantry, and the TV in the closet, put the phone in another room while you work), then your actions will also change.

Imagine that something is changing for the better every week in your life. And what will your life be like at the end of the year?

Change your day

The achievements you are proud of on your best day are a reflection of how each day goes by.

Everybody goes crazy, if only one day to suddenly achieve a result: get the best grade, sell the most in the department, win the race. Get these ideas out of your head.

Just make your usual day better and the results will appear on their own. We truly bring lasting change to our lives by slowly and subtly correcting our daily habits and patterns.