What seems insignificant

I've had the book "Do Hard Things" by Alex and Brett Harris for a couple of years now and I just found the time and the real motivation to finally read and finish the book. I am up to my last pages now and every time I read it I couldn't agree more. I find myself nodding in agreement to the things I've read and I've also understood and found confirmation and increased desire in doing greater things no matter how little people think of us or have classified us.

One of the things that I am very happy to have read is the entry about "small hard things". "Small Hard Things" can be defined as the little things we do whether it is a routine like making our beds or any other housekeeping responsibilities; these are the things we do that don't get noticed; these are the things that seems insignificant enough to just let it go. The little somethings that we do (http://findingpurposeinhimalways.blogspot.com/2011/11/little-somethings.html) does not always get appreciated as it is in my previous post. I find myself being corrected at this. We feel the small routines and disciplines that we do are not important because we don't get noticed. Many times we want to get noticed, praised, or appreciated for the things that we do. So we put so little value or no value at all for small things. Another reason in finding small things insignificant is that it doesn't seem to matter whether we put it off today and the example given in the book is making our beds. This happened to me while growing up. My question is, "why do I have to make my bed or fold the sheets when I am going to use them again any way?"

How then are small hard things become siginificant?
C.S. Lewis pointed out that,

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”  Doing the small hard things even when no one is looking helps us develop integrity in our discipline. We learn from the small hard things so we can "do hard things" better and with discipline. What are the things you do when no one is watching? What are the things you can do and are willing to do even if you will not get noticed or appreciated? These are small hard things but are significant because without doing them we could have for example a cluttered house when we don't clean up our trash or wash our dishes; or we won't have proper organizations in the big hard things we want to accomplish if we don't organize our own rooms. What seems insignificant such as these small hard things are significant because we get trained, disciplined, organized because of doing them. These are significant because no matter how hidden they are these are small hard things that prepare and shape us for big hard things.

Small hard things that seems insignificant are significant!