1% gains is the philosophy that guides my life.
Each day, I try to:
- Improve my workout numbers by 1%
- Eat 1% cleaner
- Sleep 1% better
- Etc.
But, I don’t always reach this goal.
Sometimes, what 1% gains ACTUALLY looks like is:
- -2% on my workout numbers
- -3% on how clean I ate
- -5% on the amount of sleep I got
While 1% might feel infinitely achievable… the reality is, we’re imperfect creatures immersed in an imperfect world and we have to account for the ebb and flow of life.
There will be days when you’re feeling it and crush your daily tasks (maybe even with 2-5% gains)… and there will be days when you’re not feeling it and you dip into the negatives.
Don’t let this discourage you—stay the path.
Keep investing in yourself like you would your retirement investment account. Continue to reinvest with the goal of the overall average being a 1% increase rather than the actual increase being 1% every single day.
The real power of the gains come from the long-term compounding of regular reinvestments. Just ask your financial advisor. Trying to get a forever positive return on any stock/fund in the market simply isn’t practical. And neither is a forever positive return on any task you undertake in life.
You don’t get 1% returns each and every single day.
You get 1% returns on average over the course of years and years of regular investing.
THAT is how you get the real 10/15/30% gains and that is how you get the most out of your personal development habits in life.
Stay. The. Path.