Why Get 1% better everyday?

Last Updated on July 13, 2025 by Michelle

Instead of aiming at a massive change, the answer is to get 1% better everyday.

If your goal is to read more books, you should break it down to reading 1 page a day. The secret is to make the actions doable and easy, it’s not the goal that matters but the actions.

After a year of focusing on getting 1% better everyday, you will realise you are 37x better in the are you put action to, a year later. It’s simple maths.

1.01 to the power of 365 = 37.78

This equation exactly explains the phrase – compounding value of daily habits.

The Framework – Consistency over Intensity

1. Identify: Identify 1 area you want to improve in. E.g. Health
2. Micro-shift: Find a low-level effort but high consistency action. E.g. Do 3 sets of 3kg weights arms exercises daily (this probably takes 2 mins at max)
3. Track: use a journal or digital tracker to log your daily progress. This will make you realise you’ve kept up to your daily actions, feel good and likely increase the 3kg to 3.5kg or 3 sets to 4 sets after a month of continuity

Why Small Wins Win

Small daily wins reinforces who you’re becoming, it increases your self-worth which in turn sustains your motivation.

Getting 1% better everyday builds a system of improvements which compound over time to a huge win.

In the beginning, reading 1 page a day does not seem to mount to much. Over a year, when you look at the number of books you’ve read, you realise how big of a win daily reading of 1 page a day is.

Habit Stacking

Let’s start with you right now. If you have 5 areas of improvement you want to make in your life, you can do something like this.

1. Health – Micro improvement can be 1 extra squat a day
2. Wealth – Micro improvement can be $1 extra savings a day
3. Learning – Micro improvement can be reading 1 page a day
4. Relationships – Micro improvement can be sending 1 message of appreciation a day
5. Mindset – Micro improvement can be write 1 thing you are grateful for everyday

Just Do

Start today. Remember, it’s the smallest action that wins as that will give you no fear of completion. When you get rid of the fear of starting the action, that’s when you start and when you know it’s an easy action to take, you will continue. Sustaining is way more important than an intense action that does not continue.

If you’re interested in how I leveraged the concept of 1% better everyday, you can read this. Starting without dreading is key.