I just read this good article by Jim Rohn. I know it looks like a porn link, but the article actually applies to a lot of things besides dating.

It states in more eloquent words than I can use that success or failure is not one event, but the culmination of many events. Similar in the way a battle is not one by one general’s brilliant strategy, but by every bullet that finds its mark, and by every soldier who follows order to go into harm’s way. A diet is successful at the end by losing weight, but by every time you resist the urge to eat a half rack of ribs after a week of working out, and every time you decide that “Super-sizing It” may not be the best thing for you.

Mr Rohn puts forth that these little conflicts are very important. Mainly because there is not a lot of feedback except from ourselves. When we touch a hot stove, we get strong feedback that this is a bad thing to do and so we don’t do it again. When I open the door for a lady and she thanks me, that is nice feedback to keep doing it. But it is in the smallest of things that success or failure in big things is decided. Eating just one more chip may give short term satisfaction but it in the long term it detracts form a fitness goal. Blowing off one morning of calling people may relieve stress in the short term, but it hurts in the long term of being a business success. We get little to no feedback from the outside world for these decisions, so it is up to us to recognize and decide whether we want the long term victory or the short term pleasure.

We face a million little battles every day, easily won and lost. Will you win on the battle field today?