Get a (New) Grip — How a Small Change Can Have a Big Impact

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”

– Tony Robbins

Often it is the smallest changes that can have the biggest effects.

A few years ago, I read the book, The Tipping Point; How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. It was brilliant.

Basically, The Tipping Point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behaviour crosses a threshold, tips…then spreads like wildfire.

“Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu,” reads the copy on the back of the book, “so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause a fashion trend, the popularity of a new product, or a drop in crime rate.”

Reading the book got me thinking that reaching a tipping point may also work on a personal level i.e. by making small changes in our behavior, we may be able to significantly increase the impact of our actions.

Then I went out for a dinner with a friend and he inadvertently shared with me a perfect example of this. He told me how, after years of being told by a buddy to get his golf swing analyzed by a pro, he finally got around to doing so. And the first thing he needed to change was his grip.