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The Monday Morning Memo

Exponential Little Bits

October 27, 2002

Makers of miracles have magical little helpers. Is there a miracle you would like to make?

Would you like to learn the magic of the elbs?

Elbs are Exponential Little Bits, tiny but relentless changes that compound to make a miracle. The power of an elb lies not in its size, but in its daily occurrence. For an elb to work its Exponential magic, the Little Bit must happen every day… every day… every day.

Every day.

Funny thing… When daily progress meets with progress, it doesn’t add, it multiplies. To harness the magic of Exponential Little Bits you must learn to ask yourself, “What difference have I made today?” And never go to sleep until you have done a Little Bit to move yourself closer to your goal. But you must do a Little Bit every day, no matter how tiny the thing might be.

Exponential Little Bits work both ways. They can lift you up or hold you down. There is much power in the ELBs.

Start with a dollar. Double it every day for just 20 days and you’ll have 2,097,150 dollars. But if you diminish each day’s total by just 10 percent (a Little Bit) before the next day’s doubling, you’ll amass only 793,564 dollars. Diminish each day’s doubling by 35 percent and you’ll have only 56,784 dollars – a holdback of 95.83 percent.

There’s a line in Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” that says, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down! I could say ‘Elves’ to him, but it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather he said it for himself.”

Is there a wall between you and your miracle?

I could say how to bring it down.

But I’d rather you said it for yourself.

Roy H. Williams

PS – Every copy of our new book, Free the Beagle, comes with the audio “Book-on-CD” packaged just inside the back cover. Featuring the voice of Mother Goose herself as the narrator along with 18 other character voices, music, and sound effects, the CD makes the book come alive like nothing you’ve ever heard. Available now in bookstores everywhere.

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.” – Anthony Trollope

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“If you want to write a song about the moon, walk along the craters of the afternoon when the shadows are deep and the light is alien and gravity leaps like a knife off the pavement.      If you want to write a song about the heart, think about the moon before you start, because the heart will howl like a dog in the moonlight, and the heart can explode like a pistol on a June night. So if you want to write a song about the heart and its ever-longing for a counterpart, write a song about the moon.

Hey, songwriter, if you want to write a song about a face, think about a photograph that you really can’t remember… but can’t erase. Wash your hands in dreams and lightning. Cut off your hair, and whatever is frightening, if you want to write a song about a face.        If you want to write a song about the human race, write a song about the moon. If you want to write a song about the moon… if you want to write a spiritual tune… Then do it… Write a song about the moon.”

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