%% ID: 13456560 Updated: 2022-02-07 %% ![](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article0.00998d930354.png) # About Title: [[Other/Obsidian Starter Vault(Second Brain)/Readwise/Articles/Crazy How Good Life Becomes When You Focus on Being 1% Better Each Day]] Author: [[Tim Denning]] Category: #articles Number of Highlights: ==30== Last Highlighted: *2022-02-06* Readwise URL: https://readwise.io/bookreview/13456560 Source URL: https://timdenning.com/crazy-how-good-life-becomes-when-you-focus-on-being-1-better-each-day/ # Highlights The mindset 1% badasses adopt ^283529947 --- I want “slow hustle” to become the new trend. ^283529948 --- There is actually no point in doing anything unless you’re gonna stick with it for years — ColdEmailWizard ^283529949 --- Egos tell us we can have 300% better days ^283529950 --- They want it now! now! now! ^283529951 --- 1% better is laced in humility. It’s a competition you have with yourself, quietly, each day. I think it’s beautiful. ^283529952 --- Then an event like that happens and I get reminded that 1% daily gains do add up when you shut up and be patient. ^283529953 --- “Reality will keep teaching you humility until you finally learn” ^283529954 --- If you can last longer, you can achieve more with a 1% better strategy. ^283529955 --- we should want less to get more ^283529956 --- Become better by doing less ^283529957 --- The 1% better each day mindset doesn’t work if you have an enormous ego ^283529958 --- It doesn’t appear on the cover of Success Magazine. You won’t see Instagram influencers with 1M followers and a garage full of protein shakes talking about it ^283529959 --- It takes everything you’ve got to show up every day for 5 years and be 1% better each time. ^283529960 --- He competed in marathons, became an author, started a podcast with a massive audience, and, frankly, achieved superhuman goals. ^283529961 --- The progress of 1% better is slow. It took me 5 years to get momentum from this 1% mindset. ^283529962 --- Getting 1% better each day isn’t a cookie-cutter path without any forks in the road. Pain will find you. ^283529963 --- It didn’t happen overnight at all. ^283529964 --- To lose patience is to lose the battle — Mahatma Gandhi ^283529965 --- The slow burn lasts longer. ^283529966 --- Disappear for some time, focus on yourself, return unrecognizable — Aaron Will ^283529967 --- Writer Steph Smith says she had a yoga teacher that used to say, “Congrats. The hardest part is over. You showed up.” ^283529968 --- The best question is this: how can I use this to my advantage? ^283529969 --- Program your mind to see everything in life as opportunity. ^283529970 --- Do the work behind closed doors ^283529971 --- Being 1% better each day isn’t about being a self-improvement junkie, hyped up on gratitude picture quotes and green smoothies, holding a yoga mat. It’s about whether you can show up better each day and aim for 1% progress. ^283529972 --- if you happen to hit a hard day and get better by 0.5% instead, you show up the next day and try again. ^283529973 --- say f*ck off to the loud world and live in your inner world for a while. It gives you the headspace to build a life centered around being 1% better each day. ^283529974 --- I’m just trying to live my life and escape ever doing any type of work again for money. ^283529975 --- She says worrying about a task, often, is far worse than the task itself. She finishes with “starting is the hardest part.” ^283529976