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