I have the secret to becoming a millionaire in just 28 days!! Take one penny and start day one. Double that on day two, so you now have two pennies. Each day, double the day before, and before you know it, in one week, you will have 64 cents. By the end of the second week, you will have grown your money to $81.92. By the end of the third week, you will have grown your money to $10,485.76.
Are you ready for the magic?
By the end of the 4th week, 28 days, you will have 1.3 million dollars.
If you take your calculations out just three more days to 31 days, you will have grown your money to 10.7 million dollars.
We started with one penny and grew our money to an astonishing 10.7 million dollars in 31 days.
I share the above to demonstrate that you can start with what might seem the most insignificant thing and grow it to something that will make us look at the end result in amazement.
I also wanted to demonstrate that when we start super small and put in hard work, sometimes in the first part, we don’t see the big returns. We may want to quit. At the end of the week, we only had 64 cents. We might have said, “Well, that isn’t even enough to buy a Coke.”
Even by the end of week two our dollar amount was still not too impressive. We could have bought a tank of gas probably to get us back and forth to put in all the hard work. By the end of week two, we might still have wondered if all the hard work was worth the time.
By the end of week three, we are really seeing some big money now. We could go on vacation, pay off debt, start college, and the list goes on and on. Now, we are getting motivated to keep working hard.
The magic happened at the end of week 4 and exploded three days later. We are now millionaires, and the list of significant changes we could make is almost endless.
I challenge each of us not to quit when we only see a slight difference because when we continually put in the work and keep showing up, we begin to have a compounding effect that will start to make a significant difference when, at first, all we could see was one insignificant penny.
Lay your seemingly insignificant penny down to begin getting a significant life in return.
Your Friend,
Aaron