Your Weekly Challenge:

REMINDER: You don’t have to do the challenge! See it as an idea on how to spend your week more productively.

Track your progress. Choose a habit\goal of yours you want to achieve. Commit to setting aside a SPECIFIC time each day in this week to write down one 1 step you took to achieve your chosen habit or goal, no matter how small it is in a structured location(e.g. paper). Then, rate it’s efficiency from 1-5 stars or any other way you’d like :)

For example: ‘Today I worked 10 minutes more on my business than yesterday! 3*‘

Your Weekly Inspirational Story:

“Using his skills as a corporate consultant, Nick created a training schedule for his son

based on a system he used to improve businesses called ‘1% Better,’ which involved creating a culture of continuous improvement.

‘When I first started training, the simple goal was to improve one per cent in each exercise,’ Chris explained.

‘I did one more lap of the pool, one more lap on the bike, and one more lap on the run every day.’

‘When I was doing strength workouts, it would be one more pull up, one more sit up, one more press up, and one more squat and barbell in the gym.

‘I knew that by getting one per cent stronger every day, that one day I’d be able to complete an Ironman.’

While physical progress was slow and steady, race experience provided a slightly steeper learning curve.

His first event was a sprint triathlon [750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run], and Chris finished 10th out of 10 Special Olympics athletes competing.

Unperturbed and with his dream in mind, Chris persevered with his training, and one mile eventually became 140.

In November 2020, just 11 months after beginning his triathlon journey, Chris made history by completing Ironman Florida.”

Source: olympics.com/en/news/inspirational-story-down-syndrome-ironman-chris-nikic

!!!- I advise you to write the answers down on paper, as they help you figure out stuff about yourself, which you might find useful later on!

Reflective-thinking question:

• How are you tracking progress towards improving your productivity? Is it similar to Chris’s way? Why are why not?

Critical-thinking questions:

• Although the "1% rule" has received a lot of criticism online, Chris says it helped him succeed. Why, in your opinion, did Chris find the "1% rule" so successful?

Your Weekly ‘Food For Thought’ question

What will gaining productivity progress you towards? How?