Improving 1% a day means 32x in a year!
I got an email recently talking about improving 1% a day. It said if you did, in year, you'd be 32 times better off than where you are now. I was really shocked by that so I wanted to run the numbers myself, see below:
weeks = 50
days_a_week = 7
day = 1
total = 1
while day <= weeks * days_a_week:
print(f'{day}: {total}')
total = total * 1.01
day += 1
And it's true! The math checks out. I decided I wanted to try and improve ZappyCode by 1% each day and see where it takes me. I only work M-F so when it's only 5 days a week, the math goes 11x instead of 32x (isn't that wild what difference working weekends could make). Anywho! I still like 11x so here's my list of what I did each day. Hopefully June 17th 2022 ZappyCode is 11x better than before!
Although I like the concept it doesn’t work for me, because you cannot really say yeah I improved 1% today. Also some days you will improve, other days you won’t.
Something that would work better for me is to simply improve everyday.
But the best thing that worked for me to active myself is the €100k challenge. The challenge is simple, get a revenue of 100k. Every day I reflect on the day to see what I did to get to this goal and the goal is easily trackable.
Ah interesting. Do you keep a log of what you do each day? Or is it just enough to keep you focused?
To keep focused I have a note every day at the end of the day in which I say what I did today to achieve my goal and what I am going to do tomorrow.
It’s the first thing that really worked for me since I left uni one year ago!
I am also going to make a widget for my phone, so on my homescreen I will see the number.
Oh cool!