Jeff Heggie Daily Success Strategies
059: It’s The Little Things That Matter
Welcome, Jeff Heggie Daily Success Strategies!
For all my friends and family back home, Happy Canada Day! I hope you have a great day celebrating.
Today I want to talk about the little things that matter.
I remember hearing a story from Dieter F. Uchtdorf that I want to share
In 1979 a large passenger jet with 257 people on board left New Zealand for a sightseeing flight to Antarctica and back.
Unknown to the pilots, however, someone had modified the flight coordinates by a mere two degrees.
This error placed the aircraft 28 miles to the east of where the pilots assumed they were.
As they approached Antarctica, the pilots descended to a lower altitude to give the passengers a better look at the landscape.
Although both were experienced pilots, neither had made this particular flight before, and they had no way of knowing that the incorrect coordinates had placed them directly in the path of Mount Erebus, an active volcano that rises from the frozen landscape to a height of more than 12,000 feet.
As the pilots flew onward, the white of the snow and ice covering the volcano blended with the white of the clouds above, making it appear as though they were flying over flat ground. By the time the instruments sounded the warning that the ground was rising fast toward them, it was too late. The airplane crashed into the side of the volcano, killing everyone on board.
It was a terrible tragedy brought on by a minor error —a matter of only a few degrees.
In the book, TITAN, The Life of John D Rockefeller. One of the main things I remember from that book is his advice, “Pay Attention to the Small Things.”
It’s the little things that make a difference
What are the little things that you could be doing, that may seem insignificant, but if you did them on a regular basis their impact would compound and have a major impact on your life.
It’s the little things that are easy to do, but they're easy not to do as well.
Are you spending 10 minutes each morning in your journal planning your day and going through the mindset questions I gave you?
If you’re not, go to www.JeffHeggie.com and scroll to the bottom to get your FREE copy of our Pain to Fuel eBook and read about them in my chapter.
What are the little things that you can start doing?
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Have a great day! Happy Canada Day. I’ll see you again tomorrow
