Reuben CB

The "One Percent" Rule

​We often paralyze ourselves trying to figure out the 100% perfect plan. But progress isn't about giant leaps; it’s about consistent, boring wins.

📌​Don't look at the mountain: Look at the next two feet in front of you.
📌​Action cures fear: Hesitation is where doubt grows. Movement is where confidence is built.
📌​The "Sh*tty First Draft": Everything great started out as a mess. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.
📌It's isn't always about being the smartest or the most talented person in the room; it’s often just about being the person who refused to quit when things got boring or difficult.
​How to start right now:
​📌Commit to "start" working on your goals
📌​Lower the Bar: If your goal is too big, it's scary. Shrink it until it’s so easy it feels silly not to do it.
📌​Forget Perfection: A messy start is infinitely better than a perfect "maybe."

​"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." — Zig Ziglar

When storms arrive and winds ignite,
And break the day with fading light,
When shadowed doubt begins to creep,
And pull you down to watery deep,
​When heavy hands of troubled plight,
Press on your soul with all their might,
And whisper words of bitter wrong,
To tell you that you don’t belong,
​Hold fast to what you know is true,
The core of courage deep in you.
Hold to the fire, fierce and bright,
That glows with hope and inner light.
​For just beyond the rain-slicked pane,
There waits a quiet, sunlit lane.
And on the other side of pain,
A garden grows from all the rain.