Slow and often unnoticed changes in our decisions and habits can have astounding accumulative effects over time. We rarely notice the progress and impact of these changes because they happen over weeks, months, and sometimes years instead of over minutes and days. We drift into them. Drift is the unintentional effect of slow changes over time. We don’t mean to drift. We do it because we aren’t paying enough attention and exercising enough self-discipline. Before we know it, we look up to find ourselves way off course.
