A person who does something every day habitually without thinking about it is benefiting from residual action. A mother who delegates a whole chaw to her child and makes it fun so it happens every day without prodding, is practising residual parenting. The thought of getting perpetual results might seem improbable if you are used to taking one action and getting one result. But there are tools we can use to turn our modest effort into effortless results,. again and again and again. This is the case for compounding results. It grows out of this particular ability. It's the difference between powerless effort and effortless power acasei lets go back for a second here to the definition of a lever.