I swim almost every day. I have been doing this for only ten months.

I needed to learn to rewire my head to think like a swimmer. Each month I would buy more Training aids. I have accumulated - Two types of Fins, four types of paddles, belts that teach you to rotate, wires that remind you if you lift your head, and digital devices that use bone conduction to tell you your stroke rates, speed, and heartbeat in real-time.

I wear swim socks and competition goggles.

I have a nutritional program, do core fitness exercises, and have now started strength exercises. And I also take vitamins.

It has taken ten months of gradual change to get to this point. Everything I do is about making small incremental changes.

Some now ask me if I am training for a competition. They must reason that there is no other justification for someone to have so much gear.

Yet this is what the aggregation of small things means to a swimmer. Each week I aim to gain a fraction of a second.

I apply the approach to my accounting journey. I choose to become an exclusive MYOB practice. I reasoned that I could make small changes often if I concentrated on the best Accounting platform in Australasia.

I have worked beside MYOB with beta testing.

I have watched them with pride develop and evolve their software.

And this month, I have deep-dived with the team into two new practice manager platforms, Greatsoft and Nimbus.

I was looking for these incremental improvements. And I can see them.

For my swim and MYOB journey, it is the aggregation of small things that will not only get me to the end and be competitive. But it also allows me to be my best self.