In today’s alphabet sequence I’ve chosen ‘greatness’ for the letter G and that’s because I truly do believe that you achieve greatness from continually doing the small things well every day of your life. If the steps we set ourselves are too big we find some ways to resist them before we even start. So this philosophy has two big wins for me – it starts small and it builds its capacity over a period of time.

Many years ago, my grandad tried, unsuccessfully to get me to think about saving. He said that as soon as I started earning a wage, I should save a percentage of it each week and as my salary grew throughout my life, I should continue to save the same percentage, if not more. Unfortunately his wise words fell on deaf ears. However, many years later I stumbled across a book written by Jeff Olson called The Slight Edge, which reinforced the message of what you do every day matters.

Deep down I think we all know this philosophy of life. The choices we make will either create positive or negative compound interest. The thing is, that those choices often feel too small to make a difference at the time, but over a longer period of time really do reap the reward.

Are there some small changes you could make to start building some positive compound interest for you?