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The Compounding Effect

  • Writer: Simon Fitzpatrick
    Simon Fitzpatrick
  • Sep 16
  • 1 min read

We live in a world obsessed with instant results. Fast wins. Overnight success.

But growth doesn’t work like that.

It works like compounding. Small, consistent actions stacking quietly over time until one day

they tip.

I’ve seen it in my own training. The sessions that felt like they weren’t moving the needle at

all have ended up being the ones that built the foundation for the big breakthroughs.

I’ve felt it at work too. The quiet consistency of doing the unglamorous stuff in the

background has paid off when the pressure moments arrived.

And here’s the kicker: you don’t notice compounding while it’s happening. You only notice it

after.

That’s why discipline matters. That’s why patience matters. That’s why you’ve got to keep

showing up when no one is watching.

Because one day, the graph kicks upward. And when it does, it looks like magic. But you’ll

know it wasn’t magic. It was compounding.

 
 
 

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