🌳 How To Master Consistent Growth

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HOW TO BECOME 37X BETTER IN ONE YEAR

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The Idea of self-improvement can be overwhelming. We see people who have achieved utter greatness, have done incredible things, and have lived many lives, and it makes you feel small and incomplete, and those achievements seem so far-fetched. In contrast, all you have to do is tweak the perspective. Those people didn't wake up one day and achieve those things; it was a compound effect of trials and tribulations, failure after failure, and most importantly, small bits of consistent growth.

Don't focus on changing your entire life in one sitting.

Focus on improving just 1% each day, and do one small thing every day that helps you grow as a person (this newsletter is just that!).

The problem is that if you try to change everything in a short period of time, your growth will be extremely inconsistent. If you change your diet, lifestyle, circle of friends, and job all within a short time frame, it won't last. You'll find yourself improving and crashing over and over again, and you'll end up not far from where you started.

If you just focus on 1% Improvement every single day, you'll end up 37 times better by the end of just one year. This is why small choices don't make much of a difference at the time but add up over the long term.

The caveat to this method of growth is that you can't tell it's happening until enough time has passed.

Growing 1% each day doesn't have an effect in the short term, so that's why it's best to zoom out on your own graph. Stop looking at it from a 2-week or 3-month perspective and change it to a 2-year or 5-year perspective. Similar to how compound interest works, so does this method of growth.

This is a lesson from James Clear in his book Atomic Habits (which you can buy HERE!).

The human brain loves logic (the male one especially) and therefore being able to break up such a big and seemingly never-ending goal into digestible chunks is a much more efficient way to look at it.

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How can you grow 1% every day?

Create non-negotiables for yourself. Growing every day doesn’t mean you have to do something new every day; it just means you have to stick consistently with your goals, as over time they will compound before your very eyes!

Make your non-negotiables something that will slightly put you outside your comfort zone, but not enough to the point where you won’t be able to stick to them every day. You want to make them just within reach so that you still have to stretch, but it’s possible. This can be anything such as waking up earlier, sticking to a certain diet, or reading a certain number of pages in a book per day. You can customise it to meet your specific goals.

TAKEAWAYS:

Change the perspective, Instead of aiming to 1000x yourself within one year focus on 1% a day because those 1% adds up extremely quickly.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The book of the week is ‘How to stop worrying and start living’ by Dale Carnegie, the author of ‘How to win friends and influence people’. Carnegie details the many ways worrying too much can ruin your life and how to solve it. The book contains tips and tricks on conquering worries that are worthwhile. Read It HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The creator of the week is @DanKoe, a pioneer in the self-improvement space across all social platforms. He makes content focused on optimising your life in every way possible. From making more money to finding your purpose, he’s not one to miss out!

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

It isn't hard.

You perceive it as hard because it isn't familiar to you. You fabricate the situation in your head and disconnect from reality.