How Small Actions Can Create Big Ripples In Your Life

The Butterfly Effect

Do you ever wonder how you got where you are? Have you considered the circumstances and events that brought you to this point in your life?

In his book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston recounts the steps and choices he made that led him ultimately, to a life-threatening situation that changed his life. If anything had been different, it could have resulted in an entirely different outcome.

The world we live in has a sense of connectedness that we don’t always notice. But when one thing happens, it always affects something else. Small changes may lead to much larger outcomes.

The Butterfly Effect

In the 1960’s, Meteorologist and Mathematician, Edward Lorenz theorized something he called “ The Butterfly Effect “, while studying the way weather is predicted. While challenging the model currently being used, he determined that a small change can lead to vastly different outcomes.