When you change in a drug rehab program, you are growing. You cannot change by shrinking. A person is a large group of beliefs, values and behaviors. Your talents are your assets. If you were investing money, making it double overnight is very risky. If you continue to take high risk chances with your money, you will quite quickly go broke.
Personal growth in a drug rehab program is very much the same. Wholesale massive change without develpoing the foundation to support it is dangerous and not sustainable. If you go the the gym and try to lift tons of weights and get in shape in one day ….. well you will just injure yourself. However, if you just change and improve 1% of your behaviors for one day, that is easy and sustainable. The power lies in consistently doing this. Just a one per cent change every day will mean over 1000% improvemnt in just one year. That is why is it so important to work on the "down" days. It is the momentum you gain when you continue to try to change even when you really do not feel like it that success is found.
The value of compound interest is also why 90 day stays in drug rehab work and 30 day stays in drug rehab do not. It is not that you change faster in the last 60 days. It is that you continue to grow slowly on the foundation you have built in the first 30 days. With coumpound interest a 3 month drug rehab program is 5 to 6 times as effective as a 30 day drug rehab stay. Not just the 3 times you might guess. Small incremental consistent change, just like regular inversting is the key to a wonderful life.
