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Article Summary : Discover Brian Tracy, a leading authority on personal and business success. This text, The Law of Accumulation, is part of a series of business English articles on the themes of business success and management. The reading of short business articles is an excellent way to enlarge your English vocabulary. |
The Law of Accumulation — every great financial achievement is an accumulation of hundreds of small efforts and sacrifices that no one ever sees or appreciates. The achievement of financial independence will require a tremendous number of small efforts on your part. To begin the process of accumulation, you must be disciplined and persistent. You must keep at it for a long, long time. Initially, you will see very little change or difference but gradually, your efforts will begin to bear fruit. You will begin to pull ahead of your peers. Your finances will improve and your debts will disappear. Your bank account will grow and your whole life will improve. The first corollary of the Law of Accumulation says: “As your savings accumulate, you develop a momentum that moves you more rapidly toward your financial goals.” It is hard to get started on a program of financial accumulation, but once you do get started, you find it easier and easier to keep at it. The “momentum principle” is one of the great success secrets. This principle says that it takes tremendous energy to overcome the initial inertia and resistance to financial accumulation and get started, but once started, it take much less energy to keep moving. The second corollary of the Law of Accumulation says: “By the yard it’s hard, but inch by inch, anything's a cinch.” When you begin thinking about saving ten or twenty percent of your income, you will immediately think of all kinds of reasons why it is not possible. You may be up to your neck in debt. You may be spending every single penny that you earn today just to keep afloat. If you do find yourself in this situation, instead of saving ten percent, begin saving just one percent of your income in a special account, which you refuse to touch. This small amount will begin to add up at a rate that will surprise you. As you become comfortable with saving one percent, increase your savings rate to two percent, then three percent, then four percent and five percent, and so on. Within a year, you will find yourself getting out of debt and saving 10%, 15% and even twenty percent of your income without it really effecting your lifestyle. Now, here are two things you can do to apply this law immediately: First, decide upon your long-term financial goals and then resolve to work toward them one step at a time. The first steps are the hardest and you must discipline yourself to avoid backsliding into old habits. Second, practice the law of accumulation in other parts of your life as well. Resolve to master a subject one page at a time. Lose weight one ounce at a time. Learn a language one lesson at a time. The cumulative effect can be enormous.
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