This document discusses how improving yourself by 1% each day can lead to significant gains over time through compounding. It encourages the reader to focus on small, daily improvements in areas like leadership, communication, exercise, relationships and more. While changing entirely overnight may not be possible, making a 1% improvement is achievable. Regular, small improvements add up substantially due to compounding effects. The document provides examples of how compounding can work for both financial investments and self-improvement habits. It emphasizes starting small, developing new habits, focusing on high-impact areas, and using deliberate practice to continuously challenge yourself.

1. Your Daily 1%
“Learn what you can do every day to be
better than you were the day before.”

2. 1%
 1 is such a small number
 But think about what a 1% rate of
return on your money would do
over time, thanks to compounding.
 Would you take a 1% daily rate of
return on your money? Of course!

3. Things we could improve
by 1%
 Leadership
 Parenting
 Mentoring
 Exercise / Wellness
 Productivity
 Patience
 Tolerance
 Positivity

4. Things we could improve
by 1%
 Relationships
 Sportsmanship
 Teamwork
 Communication
 Perseverance
 Attitude

5. Change
 Can you completely change yourself
overnight? Probably not.
 Can you change yourself 1% today?
 Yes! You can improve any number of
facets of your life by 1%.
 What can you improve by 1% right
now?
 Most people don’t accomplish their
greatest success until after age 40.
Greatness takes time, so take it a day
at a time.

6. Change
 You can’t be 100% than everyone
else, but you can be 1% better at
hundreds of things.
 Not everyone can be the best, but
everyone can be better tomorrow
than they are today.
 Think “swifter, higher, stronger” not
“swiftest, highest, strongest.”
 You should be competing with
yourself, not comparing yourself to

7. Change
 Don’t compare yourself to others.
That is not productive.
 Compare yourself to you. And, if
you begin to improve yourself 1%
at a time, you are highly likely to
start passing others up, so don’t
worry about it!

8. The Miracle of
Compounding
 John makes $40,000 per year and
saves $400 per month for
retirement beginning at age 18.
 Sam makes $200,000 per year but
doesn’t start saving for retirement
until age 35, at which point he
saves $2,000 per month.
 Who has more by age 55?

9. Miracle of Compounding
 Compounding applies not only to
money, but any type of self-
improvement activity as well.
 Exercise. Rome wasn’t built in a
day, and neither was your body.
You build off of previous gains. If
you could improve 1% every
day, that would be great!
 Leadership. Again, you build off of
previous gains.

10. Miracle of Compounding
 Leadership is like the stock market.
If you hope to make a fortune in
one day, you won’t.
 Leadership is a process. You don’t
become a great leader overnight.
 You build on your leadership
constantly throughout your life. It
takes a lifetime.
 Consistency – work on it every day.

11. Process v. Events
 An Event encourages decisions. A
Process encourages development.
 An Event motivates people. A
Process matures people.
 An Event is a calendar issue. A
Process is a culture issue.
 An Event challenges people. A
Process changes people.
 An Event is easy. A Process if
difficult.

12. Leadership
 Ask yourself: “can I improve my
leadership ability by 1% tomorrow?”
 After sitting through this
seminar, hopefully the answer is
“yes.”
 After you improve yourself 1%, do
it again and you will build off of the
previous gains, earning a compound
effect.

13. Let’s Get Started!
 What do we need to get started
improving ourselves by 1% daily?
 Motivation – but how do we get
it???

14. Motivation
 Start by taking a small action.
 What may feel awkward at first will
slowly but surely begin to feel
comfortable.
 Once you gain some comfort and
confidence, you will become
motivated to keep going.
 Think of a diet or exercise program.
The further into it you get, the
more motivated you become.

15. Action Creates Motivation
Which Creates More Action!
 The more you get done, the more
motivated you are to do things. So
you do more things, and get even
more motivated. It’s a self-feeding
cycle.
 BUT, make sure you are doing the
right things well. Effectiveness vs.
Efficiency.
 You still have to consider priorities.
Doing the wrong things well is a

16. Bodies in motion…
 Once you start taking action and
are in motion, you will tend to stay
in motion.

17. The Pareto Principle
(80/20 Rule)
 80% of a company’s profits usually
come from 20% of its products or
services.
 80% of your successes likely come
from 20% of your actions.
 We tend to waste time focusing on
the other 80% of our products or
action. Shouldn’t we be focusing on
the 20% that actually work?

18. Small shifts
 We need to identify the actions we
take that produce the outsized
results.
 We need to focus on small shifts in
our actions that will produce large
shifts in results.”
 This is called leverage.

19. 10,000 Hours
 That’s how long it typically takes to
master a skill.
 If you work 45 to 50 hours a week at
your job for 10 years, then you should
be a master, right? You should be the
head of the company? Why aren’t
you?
 It's because we are seldom taking our
skills to new levels, we are just doing
the same tasks that we already know
how to do.

20. Practice vs.
Deliberate Practice
 Practice by itself doesn’t necessarily
improve performance.
 If a pianist plays the same song
over and over for 10,000
hours, they may master that
song, but they have not likely
mastered the piano.
 “Deliberate practice” is designed to
deliberately improve performance.
You work on the skills you are weak

21. Practice vs. Deliberate
Practice
 Think of a football team. Do they
practice the plays they are already
good at? NO.
 They practice the plays they have
not yet mastered.
 Deliberate practice involves going
outside of your comfort zone.
 Deliberate practice involves
increasing your strain level.

22. Developing the Habit
 25% of New Year’s Resolutions are
broken within the first week.
 88% eventually fail.
 Why?
 Resolutions that are too broad –
lose weight / get in shape.
 Typically takes 21 days to develop a
new habit.

23. Rest
 Adequate sleep is mandatory to
make sure you have enough energy
to keep improving yourself.
 Vacations are mandatory too!
 Pick a day of the week to take a
break from career-related activities.
 Rest really does improve
performance.

24. Rest
 Cycle throughout the day between
periods of concentrated effort and
planned recovery.
 Worked for 90 minutes chunks of
time and then take breaks in
between.
 Take a nap if needed!

25. Take Time to Work on
Yourself
 Regardless of what you are trying to
improve, you are going to need to
set aside time to work on this self-
improvement.
 Set a time periodically to be alone
with your own thoughts and reflect.
No distractions – no iPhone; no
music; no other people!

26. Harnessing the Power
of the Mind
 In a moment, we are going to do
something together that will immediately
make all of our lives better.
 This one thing can be controlled by us and
us alone – through the power of our
minds.
 Your mind is the most powerful force you
have – by far.
 You can control how you feel about things.
 Things are not good or bad, we just think
they are good or bad.

27. The Power of the Mind
 We can do anything we want to do
if we set our minds to it?
 Don’t believe me? Think back to
any important accomplishment in
your life.
 You would not have accomplished it
unless you set your mind to it.
 Have you ever surprised yourself
with how much you accomplished?

28. The Power of the Mind
 We are only using a fraction of our
mind’s power.
 Most of us are walking around using
25% of our capacity.
 What if we move that to 75%?
 Think big / dream big.

29. One Thing To Do Right
Now!
 Together let us let go of negative
thoughts and feelings right now –
they are completely worthless and
will not help us achieve anything.
They will only bring us down and
we know this.

30. Negative Thoughts
 Negative programming
 I’m not good enough
 I’m not smart enough
 Good things don’t happen to people
like me
 People don’t like me
 Jealousy
 Self-pity

31. Negative Thoughts
 Victim Mode vs. Accepting
Responsibility
 We can’t get rid of negative
stimuli, but we can change how we
react to them.
 Stimulus + Awareness = Moment of
Choice

32. Negative Thoughts -- Fears
 Fear of Failure
 Fear of Success

33. Letting Go of the Negative
 Part of letting go of the negative is
letting go of grudges and negative
feelings we are holding towards
others.
 Forgiveness – if only for your own
sake – you will feel better and can
move on to concentrate on your own
growth and prosperity.
 Letting go of worrying about what
other people think. Worry about what
you think!

34. Let Go!
 Let us start right now to let go of all
those negative thoughts we just
discussed – they are worthless.
 Inject positive thoughts to force
them out.
 Won’t happen overnight, so let us
together right now start with 1%.

35. Challenge Yourself
 If you don’t challenge yourself, how
will you continue to grow?
 Leave your comfort zone.
 Set goals that may even seem
unattainable.
 Aim for 100, but if you only get to
80, you will have surpassed the vast
majority of the population.
 Just Do It!

36. Further Reading
 The 1% Solution by Tom Connellan
 The Compound Effect by Darren
Hardy
 Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon
Hill
 www.randygage.com