Start 1% at a time to reach 100% in no time..

As was asked of me by a friend I went through the philosophy propounded by Dave Brailleford which he put into practice while coaching the British Cyclist's group Team Sky with great success.. Lately they seem to be embroiled in some doping controversy which is something every sports person seems to be a part of at least once in his career. Anyway as it has nothing to do with the philosophy in question I would rather skip that bit. So back to the principle of Aggregating marginal gains.. it seems to have been inspired by a certain Japanese philosophy known as Kaizen which means continuous improvement. The irony of the entire thing is that even the Japanese can't claim it as their own Coz this philosophy was first proposed and put into practice by the Americans during World War II. This philosophy is basically about not looking at the big picture and breaking the goal into small achievable tasks. Then work daily on a regular basis to improve upon the small tasks by 1% at a time. . This requires lots of patience and consistency. One should not expect miracles overnight as it's a gradual process and it takes time and works by aggregating these small small gains which won't be pretty evident initially but in the long run we will reap the benefits. . Just like in farming as we dont stop with just one harvest and the entire process has to be repeated again and again for every subsequent harvest, the same way just because we reached our goal we should not stop making those efforts that led us to this happy outcome.  One more example to put this across would be a buffet. Basically a buffet attracts as well as overwhelms us. We tend to want to try everything and end up piling up our plate and later regret by not being able to finish by leaving half the food untouched. But if we take little quantities at a time we might be able to taste everything and it might leave us much more satisfied and our stomach too would thank us in the long run. So basically as not to get overwhelmed by the enormity of our goals and to prevent our brain from pressing the panic button and pulling us back we better cut the tasks to smaller chunks and put in consistently atleast 1% effort daily.