Want To Improve By 1000%?

My favorite personal development book of all time is “The Compound Effect” by Darren Hardy. It gives words to the commanding power of consistency that I’d always known to be true, and is responsible for the most important tool in my personal development which is my Self Improvement Scorecard. It’s a book I read once a quarter to reinforce the fundamentals.

The reason we put time into reading books, listening to podcasts, and exposing ourselves to world-changing ideas is because we want to experience extraordinary self-growth. In “The Compound Effect” Hardy articulates the unexpected and shocking math behind it:

Let’s say you want to improve by 1000%, which can be measured as 10x-ing your income, impact, the quality of your relationships, and your vitality in life. And to achieve that you only need to improve by 0.1% every week day. Not 1%… 0.1%. 1/10 of 1%.

Here’s the math: 0.1% a day is 0.5% a week... 0.5% a week is about 2% a month which compounded adds up to 26% a year. You let that compounding continue and at 10 years you’re at 1000%.

You don’t need to put 1000% more in to achieve 1000% results, just 0.1% every single day.

Now the question becomes, how do you do that? 

It’s by consistently making subtle but meaningful positive improvements. Review one mistake you made and what you could do differently, so that you know for next time. Do one more rep in the gym or make one more sales call to slightly increase the odds in your favor. Adding one more layer of intention into your morning routine, creating one small efficiency in a process, or acknowledging one choice that could have been better. 

As long as you show up with the intention to grow, you’ll find a 0.1% improvement opportunity.

But compounding doesn’t work if you miss days and you’re inconsistent. You can’t improve every once in a while, it needs to be every single day. Every single time. That’s how momentum builds. That’s how growth becomes exponential. And that’s how progress becomes faster than you imagined possible.

For me, every day when I complete my Self Improvement Scorecard, that’s when I gather the awareness I need to know what .1% better looks like for tomorrow. The awareness translates into new choices, new systems, and new actions. And that’s what generates the exponential results. 

If you want to see 0.1% growth in action, click here and I'll show you my Self Improvement Scorecard!