What if you could improve yourself by just 1% every day?

I am Vision Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers

and thought leaders on the planet.

To discuss the world's most powerful ideas in personal growth for my,

body, spirit and work.

One of the most powerful ideas I've ever learned is an idea called the 1% rule from James

I interviewed James for the Mind Valley podcast. He wrote a brilliant book called Atomic

Habits and the 1% rule is really interesting. It says, what if you could improve yourself by

just 1% every day? 1% every day, right? And what's interesting is, if you get better by 1% every day,

after one year, you are actually 37.78% better. Think about that. That's 37.78% more you,

a better you. And that shows in someone. It shows in the way you look, in the way you carry

yourself, in the income you earn, in the type of people you associate with. And that's basic math

that most people don't do that. Most people fail to make any decision in regards to that choice.

And so they let the days unfold for them blindly. With no intention, they slowly get worse.

Now, think about this. In our day, we have this thing called time. Most of us waste our time.

On average, we spend 12 minutes waiting for a train, 22 minutes at a restaurant waiting for a meal.

If you go to the post office, you're spending 10 minutes on average in line. We toss away minutes

all the time. So one of the key things that I recommend people do, whenever they come to me,

about some aspect of their life that they want to improve, I say, okay, look, there's this therapy

and there's this modality. And you can do all of that. But at the basic level, you've got to set

aside 20 minutes a day and mock that time. And in that 20 minutes, dedicate yourself to learning

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