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Tommy Baker
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April 23 - April 24, 2018
Our expectations are sky high, and we’re prone to giving up at the first sign of struggle or obstacles.
The first iteration of your goals is never the end result—the magic is in the pivot.
Without starting and jumping into the cold water, you’ll never clearly see the pivot and the opportunity in front of you, no matter what area of life you’re in.
The 1% Rule obliterates this myth of perfect timing and instead creates the perfect timing. Since perfect timing is an illusion, then today is the only time—hence, it’s perfect.
We will experience challenges, adversity, and chaos at least once every single day.
When we feel we’re moving the needle forward in life, even a seemingly insignificant amount, we stay motivated. Progress keeps us inspired and on track.
Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.
kaizen. This philosophy is about continuous improvement over the long haul.
The 1% Rule: 1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.
1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.
When I focused on small daily actions tied to the larger vision, I felt invigorated and inspired, and I moved the needle. When I focused on the end result and the massive vision I’d created, I felt depleted and uninspired, and suffered from paralysis by analysis.
When I focused on small daily actions tied to the larger vision, I felt invigorated and inspired, and I moved the needle. When I focused on the end result and the massive vision I’d created, I felt depleted and uninspired, and suffered from paralysis by analysis.
What separates The 1% Rule from other texts on compounding is the system. This involves taking the concept down to the ground level and helping you craft a game plan to start now.
Integration is the missing link in most personal development, success, and mindset texts. Without it, we stay stuck in a world of intellectually knowing—but nothing else.
We only truly value that which is earned—and specifically, that which we earn through the process of becoming.
When you truly love who you’re becoming, you become unstoppable.
The big leaps will never happen if we don’t get used to taking the small ones.
You’ll know without a shadow of a doubt what your inner signaling system is telling you to do, and you’ll begin to create a powerful dynamic of listening to it in the moments where it doesn’t make sense. As time passes, you’ll realize the power of operating in life with this rare, yet highly valuable self-trust and self-reliance.
Living the code is a reminder of where your intention, focus, and limited energy go on a daily basis, and it’s designed to withstand even the most brutal of storms.
“Unfortunately, the proliferation of choice in our lives robs us of the opportunity to decide for ourselves just how important any given decision is.”
“Simple—Day two is the hardest day and where we see the most drop off.”
If you stay with it when it gets hard, you can have breakthroughs to new levels in all areas of your life.”
Every single day, we celebrate a win we experienced as we use the 1% Rule. These micro-wins create the momentum and clarity required to get us to the more expansive wins and outcomes we’re chasing. They force us to open up our awareness, and we feed our inner hero instead of our inner critic. They remind us to not judge ourselves and instead appreciate our growth.
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
“A warrior is an average man with laser like focus.”
Without a doubt, the number one obstacle standing between people and their dreams is a lack of focus.
Duration is less important than intensity and consistency. Practicing means you’re in it for the long game, and it’s a daily application.
Steady progress will win the race, and slowly you’ll start to build a new network of neural connections designed to keep you in focused work for longer durations of time. You’ll reap the benefits that come with knowing where you’re going and being able to prove to yourself you’re on your way.
Persistence isn’t special and doesn’t have to be acquired at a seminar. It’s what keeps us waking up early to pursue our dreams. It keeps us fueled when our friends and family tell us it’s time to get a “real job” and quit the fantasy.
“Grit is the tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term goals. Self-control is the voluntary regulation of behavioral, emotional, and attentional impulses in the presence of momentarily gratifying temptations or diversions. Grit can be simply defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals.”
Persistence is created by choosing it time and time again. Every single day, we will experience countless moments of doubt and fluctuations in our physical, mental, and emotional energy, all of which can stop us in our tracks. The cultivation of persistence requires us to detach from the feelings of the moment. Specifically, it’s about executing, regardless of what we’re feeling—all the time.
The law of polarity states that everything that exists has an equal and exact opposite. While positive thinking and optimism are beautiful and required for a life of both success and achievement, there are times we must dig into the darker emotions we experience and use them as a creative source of power. Ultimately, these become a powerful force for persistence over the long term.
“The moment your desire for knowledge and wisdom matches the desire you just experienced for air, you will have it.”
When we truly, deeply, and authentically desire our visions, we will persist in the face of extraordinary challenges.
Maximum growth happens at the intersection of support and challenge.
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.”
Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare.
“embrace the suck.” Every workout was going to be hard, no matter how simple it seemed on paper.
To achieve overnight success will require a decade of consistency.
Don’t compare your start or middle to someone else’s ending, or you’ll never endure.
Remember: your mountain is yours. Your journey is one-of-a-kind and will never happen again. Your exact mix of background, environment, family, brain chemicals, and way of viewing the world is 100% unique.
FALL IN LOVE WITH DELAYED GRATIFICATION
Everything costs something—and I mean, everything.
Focus on the next step—right here, right now.
The ethos behind the 1% Rule means you’re going to take at least one step today. Even if you’re exhausted and on the verge of giving up—you take the step. If there’s nothing else you do that day, tomorrow is a new chance and a new opportunity. However, each time you persist in the face of adversity, you build a confidence in yourself that you will execute and grow when the chaos hits, and this will serve you for the entire journey.
One day, you’re going to look back and reflect on this period of your life—and miss it. You’re going to miss the excitement, the doubt, the beautiful mess of ambition and desire, the growth, the studying, the wins, and the losses. Sure, you will love your results and the life you’ve created, but don’t miss out on the moment right now.
Raise the level of commitments or lower the level of expectations.
Practice means we’re building, every single day.
We create the right time—in every single moment.
One of the core tools of the 1% Rule is asking the right questions. Questions open up possibility in our minds and get us centered and focused. The 1% question is a tool in your daily arsenal to bring you back to center and correct course, or to identify what has to be done next: “What can I execute on right now that will prove that my outcome and vision are not only possible, but coming true?”
What is that one thing to be achieved after which rest everything is unimportant?
