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1% Principle

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“If you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you'll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you're done.”- James Clear


Prompt: 

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with a task or a desire to change. But, taking small, consistent steps - literally a 1% change in what you are doing today - can achieve dramatic results. For this week, think about the projects you want to start, are struggling to complete, or any change you’d like to see in your practice but have not been able to realize, I’d like to discuss the strategies and steps we can take to achieve them, by sneaking toward them a little at a time.


My Answer:

The example I’d like to give is act creation. This winter I have a handful of new acts I want to create. And some of them involve skills I (or my animals) don’t have refined YET. Instead of sitting down for three hours twice a week and trying to remain focused and productive for that entire time, I am committed to carving out a small section of time each day. Like, 15 minutes to work on each thing. At the end of each week I’ve had almost two hours of focused time for each project, with virtually no wasted time.


Thoughts and Actions:

I like to practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Thats not to say that I feel pressure to ALWAYS be improving, continuous improvement (as a mindset) allows for set backs without feeling “loss”. What I feel like I have to watch out for is expectations - that I put on myself and that other can put on me.


We convince ourselves that change is only meaningful if there is some large, visible outcome associated with it. But modest continuous improvement can be even more meaningful in the long run. It’s a habit. It’s intentional. It’s disciplined. Anything worth investing in long term is worth continuous effort.


If you get one percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done. Small choices don’t make much of a difference at the time, but add up over the long-term.


So how can we implement this NOW?

  1. Do more of what already works. Don’t waste the resources and ideas at our fingertips because they don’t seem new and exciting. Progress often hides behind boring solutions.

  2. Avoid tiny losses. In many cases, improvement is not about doing more things right, but about doing fewer things wrong. This is called improvement by subtraction, which is focused on doing less of what doesn’t work. Each healthier by eating fewer unhealthy foods.

  3. Measure backward. Measuring backward means you make decisions based on what has already happened, not on what you want to happen. Don’t try to predict the future. Stay in tune with where you are vs last week.




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