Hail, hail the powerful 1 percent!

by. Anthony Demangone

I love a good tweak. Trying to tinker with a process to eek out a little more efficiency gives me untold joy.

Just how powerful is a tweak? Even a small one?

Very. Just look at this article from Buffer. (It includes a killer story about how small gains helped a team win the Tour de France.

It’s so easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value of making better decisions on a daily basis.

Almost every habit that you have — good or bad — is the result of many small decisions over time.

And yet, how easily we forget this when we want to make a change.

So often we convince ourselves that change is only meaningful if there is some large, visible outcome associated with it. Whether it is losing weight, building a business, traveling the world or any other goal, we often put pressure on ourselves to make some earth-shattering improvement that everyone will talk about.

Meanwhile, improving by just 1 percent isn’t notable (and sometimes it isn’t even noticeable). But it can be just as meaningful, especially in the long run.

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