This is the final show in our 10-show series on lifelong learning. Today we’ll discuss five activities that will make you healthy, wealthy and wise all at the same time.
Now we’ll warn you – these activities we are recommending today require some multi-tasking. We usually suggest less multi-tasking, but these are things ideally suited for doing more than one thing at a time.
Let’s pull out the Professor’s whiteboard for: 5 activities to grow healthier, wealthier, and wiser.
I was on the treadmill and noticed that I was running slower than others around me. I’m competitive but I just can’t sustain the higher speed that other people can.
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That led to today’s show topic … one-up yourself!
Think one percent better or one percent more. Self-improvement requires patience. A little bit of improvement over time makes a bigg difference.
1% a week leads to a 50% improvement
For example, let’s say you walk two miles in thirty minutes. If you can just do one percent more the next time out, you would walk 2.02 miles in thirty minutes or you might stick with the two miles and plan to do it in 29 minutes and 40 seconds. Either way, it’s a one percent improvement. If you do that every week, over the course of the year, you would have improved over fifty percent!
It’s easy to get discouraged if we don’t see results right away. We’re bigg goal-getters so we always shoot high. However, shooting too high is a recipe for de-motivation. Take baby steps rather than a leap that you can’t sustain!
There are five steps to one-up yourself:
Find the baseline. Measure where you are now so you compete only with yourself, not others. It doesn’t matter what that point is; it’s just important to know it because it’s your starting point.
Set your initial one-up goal. You may want to go faster or longer. Are you in a sprint or a marathon? Are you trying to improve quantity or quality?
Determine the time frame. Do you want to improve one percent every time, each week or some other period? Specify a time frame for your incremental improvement.
How will achieve it? What specific activity will get you that extra 1%? Let’s look at an example, using a savings goal:
Assume you have a base line, how much you’re saving now, of $500 a month. You want to save more money in the same time (each month). In other words, you want to go “faster.” So next month, you plan to save $505 next month.
Okay, so you want to save $5 more next month. How will you do it? You decide that you’ll pack your lunch one more day.
See how easy that was!
As you do it, analyze your results. If you hit your one-up goal, congratulate yourself. But then set your next one-up goal and go get it.
If you didn’t hit your goal, analyze why. Then try, try again. Don’t get down on yourself for missing your goal one time. You’ll one-up yourself next time!
One-up leads to bigg success
There are things in our lives that are sprints; others are marathons. Set your goals accordingly and one-up yourself for bigg success!
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We thank you so much for spending your time reading our post today. New research shows that there is a fountain of youth. Join us next time when we tell you where to find it. Until then, here’s to your bigg success!
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When the phrase “one-up” is used, it’s usually referring to the competition. We had an interesting discussion after working out recently. 
I was on the treadmill and noticed that I was running slower than others around me. I’m competitive but I just can’t sustain the higher speed that other people can.