1% Better Each Day

In early January (2008) I decided that I should start tracking myself and see if I can truly do 1% better each day. Or perhaps do one thing better each day. Because I felt it was time to dig in and track what I have started teaching to people through my BLOG and through the talks I have started to give!

MAKE A LIST TO START: I came up with a list of about 20 things at first. What I did was just starting writing whatever came to me at the time. I thought it would be good to have something to reference in case I was struggling to find something to improve on that day.

KEY QUESTION: Here is a question to ask yourself: "If I could do better, should I?" Suppose you say YES! Then perhaps ask yourself something like this: "How can I do better today?" or "What could I do better today then I did yesterday?"...Maybe ask "What would I like to learn today?"

The list could go on and on. However, its important for you to know that if you say "I can't" you limit yourself. Your mind basically stops trying. When you say "How can I?" now you are opening up your mind to finding a way.

So each day by asking "How can I?" ...I have been finding ways to grow and improve in my health, in my business, in my parenting and in my walk with the Lord. Perhaps that's why the Bible says, "The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips." (Proverbs 16:23)

DR. STAN FAN: I was on a Success University call recently and the featured guest was Dr. Stan Harris. This guy is awesome! Perhaps the most wisdom I have heard out of one person's lips in all my life. He shared so much that inspired me! Truly a man that was flowing the Proverb above!

The one thing I will share now with you from his "Breakthrough Teaching" is his FAITH acronym.

Find Answers In The Heart

Think again about the power of the "How can I?" vs The limit of "I can't"... Are you in the same place this year as you were last year? Are you in the same place this month as you were last month? Are you in the same place today as you were yesterday? Are you going to settle for the average life of the SAME thing over and over? Are you going to keep saying you're going to take action, and then never find "the time" to take action? Check your heart and find the answers...

If you want me to send you a replay of the Dr. Stan Harris call let me know! I think it will get you off the launching pad if you seem to be having trouble listing off! For more information about Success University visit www.DiscoverYourSuccess.net

I had a breakthrough goal this year to write a book. That seemed like a crazy goal at first since I did not feel I was good at writing and did not know where to begin.

I had been listening to a Tony Robbins goals workshop and he explained that you don't need to always know how you are going to accomplish your goals, but you need to take the first step of identifying the goal. Then once you do that you need to believe that you can reach your goals.

He went on to give examples of people reaching extraordinary goals that didn't seem possible in the natural. With that I built my faith up and thought that I could aim high as well.

Knowing that I was working on breaking into speaking I really felt strongly about needing to author a book. Amazingly within two days of setting the breakthrough goal of writing a book I was on a Success University Faculity call and the guest was Steven E...he is the creator of the best selling book series Wake Up...Live the Life You Love!

After hearing him talk about the success of his books and the fact that I could be a co-author I did not waste time at all taking advantage of the opportunity to be a part of the next book in the series.

Now in a few short months I will be a co-author in the series and will have officially accomplished a breakthrough goal of mine.

This is a story to show you that your 1% BETTER EACH DAY can be something big. It also can be something small. You simply need to do something!!

A good way to start doing 1% Better Each Day is to break it down to areas that you might consider doing 1% BETTER in. Here are a few:

1. Family (example)
2. Health (example)
3. Career (example)
4. Finances
5. Education (example)
6. Recreation (example)
7. Spiritual
8. Contribution
9. Friends

Let say you took some or all of these and then made a dream list in for each of these. Perhaps you would break your dreams down into some more specific goals to help you reach your dreams.

Once you break down your goals you then come up with steps to reaching your goals. If you really get detailed you would come up with some tasks to help you complete each step. By doing this in detail you could easily come up with hundreds of action items that you would need to do in order to reach your dreams.

EXAMPLE: Imagine that you just set a new goal today. Lets say it was to make $100,000 over the next 12 months. Right now you are at 0% of the goal. To successfully reach the goal would be the 100% mark. Like I said above you would break down the goal into steps and tasks. Each task you carry out will get you a small percentage closer to your goal (perhaps just 1% to start). With each successful task you pick up momentum and move closer to your 100%. So you might create a charge to track your progress if you are the type that needs to see that 1% improvement. Certainly I am declaring that you need to create a vision with some dreams and goals to really track the end results.

Using the list above you have several areas you could create mulitple goals in. Even if you did not reach 100% of your goals if you took enough steps forward in many areas or a few specific areas you can conclude that you can get 1000% better in a year by doing 1% BETTER EACH DAY!

READ: I do a lot of reading. I get wisdom from the bible, other books, and courses on Success University. I am a strong believer that simply learning something new is a way to get 1% BETTER EACH DAY.

If you want to get better at goal setting simply find a book, get an audio program or take course on how to improve in that area. The same is true if you want improve a certain area of your life such as the areas I mentioned above.

Find a mentor or expert. To improve my business I have a business coach. To help me with my fitness I use a personal trainer. If you want help with your finances you could get a financial advisor...I think you know where I am going with this.

To improve you don't have to do it on your own. Seek help from people that are qualified to help you. Know that each time you do the 1% BETTER you are a success. Each task you complete makes you successful. You don't have to be perfect. Perhaps you mess up and have a bad day. If you mess up, don't get down, instead get back up and move forward. You are only a failure if you don't try!

Now that you a good idea of what you need to do I have to remind you that inorder to get results you have to TAKE ACTION. It does not do you a lot of good if you simply come up with a list and then don't do anything about it. If you buy a book, but don't read it and put the tools you learn to use chances are your not going to improve.

We were not CREATED to be average and to just barely get by. We were created to have success and to flourish in all areas of our lives. That may seem impossible now, but ALL THINGS are possible if you believe. When you break it down to doing 1% BETTER EACH DAY its really not that hard. Right? You can do 1% BETTER today then you did yesterday...you can repeat that the next day too! I know you can!

This is how you BECOME UNSTOPPABLE! Its my goal to help people discover the UNSTOPPABLE POWER they have inside them! Get started by doing 1% BETTER EACH DAY!

Remember MASSIVE ACTION = MASSIVE RESULTS!

Some of you look at TAKING MASSIVE ACTION and think that sounds like a lot of work. But before you start thinking you can't do it think back to the first section of this page.

Remember the ROCKET SHIP as it blasts off. It does take effort, but also remember once it breaks through it just sort of flows off into outerspace almost effortlessly.

GETTING INTO THE FLOW: Once you have lift off and keep moving forward you will find a flow in your own life. When you do that you will accomplish more with less action. So BLAST OFF and think about the fact that soon you will get INTO THE FLOW and you will be able to accomplish so much more! Imagine how good that will feel!!!!

I will be adding to this teaching weekly so be sure to visit again!