I just recorded my 50th daily video going back through 30 years of journals.
And something has become really obvious.
Ideas don’t compound.
Implemented ideas compound.
Looking back at 1997, I was incredibly focused.
Almost everything I was thinking about was how to help real estate agents get leads, convert those leads, follow up with people who weren’t ready yet, get transactions, and generate referrals.
I went deep.
And because I was always thinking about how to package and duplicate what worked, one completed thing kept becoming the foundation for the next.
The first Guide to Halton Hills worked in my own real estate business.
That led to licensing the system to 40 agents around Toronto.
That led to my relationship with Joe Stumpf.
That eventually led to thousands of agents across North America using things that had started as ideas in my journal.
Thirty years later, I’m still using many of those ideas.
But here’s the other thing I’ve discovered looking back:
There are LOTS of great ideas in those journals that never made it into the real world.
And those ideas have compounded exactly zero.
That may be one of the biggest lessons from these first 50 days.
The value isn’t in how many ideas you have.
It’s in how many you finish.
One completed thing becomes an asset.
That asset becomes the platform for the next thing.
And eventually you look behind you and discover you’ve created an enormous wake.
Fifty days ago, this little daily journal experiment was just an idea too.
Now there are 50 videos.
Funny how that works. :)