1% better every day: the key to personal growth

Discover how 1% improvement is the key to personal growth and better time management, small steps, big results

Time keeps ticking, where do you spend it? Is your focus on someone else’s life, or your own? Are you building skills, evolving, or are you standing still? The time you are given never stops, it moves forward, relentlessly.

Every day, endless scrolling through social media. Your focus is on the world around you, on someone else's life, instead of your own. But is it worth it when you realize that 2 to 3 hours on social media per day adds up to 21 hours per week.

That’s 1,092 hours per year, 46 full days. Over a month spent watching someone else’s life. Picture perfect. But no matter how perfect things may seem, everyone is human, everyone faces setbacks. The difference? How you deal with them. Do you dwell on them, or do you keep moving forward, step by step, despite the (temporary) struggles?

How much time do you really give yourself?

A day has 24 hours. On average, you sleep for 8, leaving 16 hours to do something. Maybe you work for 8 hours, spend a few hours commuting. But where does the rest of your time go? And those moments you look forward to, how quickly do they pass? How fast does the present moment slip away into a memory? Do you still think it's worth spending hours scrolling when you could be focusing on the key to personal growth, investing in yourself and developing new skills?

Invest in yourself: 1% a day, 15 minutes of growth

What if you chose to improve by just 1% every day? One percent is only 15 minutes. Add that up, and by the end of the year, you will have spent 5,475 minutes, 91hours on self-development. Building a skill that contributes to your future. Time not wasted, but invested… in yourself.

Allow yourself to be a beginner

Every beginning is tough. Allow yourself to be a beginner; no one starts off being excellent. The biggest problem? Most people stop learning after they graduate. At work, you start as a junior, then move up to senior… but what about the other areas of life? The years pass by, weekends are filled with catching up with friends, resting, and finishing the endless to-do lists that couldn’t wait any longer.

When you stop learning, you lose your sense of challenge, progress, and even purpose. What are you working toward? What goals are you still setting for yourself? The job where you once started as a beginner becomes repetitive, the challenge fades, and growth comes to a halt.

But allow yourself to make mistakes, to feel like you're failing, because in doing so, you're actually growing. Life is a process that never stops. You never truly stop learning, if you choose to stay open to it. Go to the gym to build your body, start that business idea you've been thinking about. Discover a new passion, or pick up something you once started but never finished.

Growth is the key to fulfillment

When you keep growing, when you allow yourself to make mistakes and learn from them, you will realize that you're happier. Not stuck in the monotony of life, but evolving into new ‘levels’ of yourself.

Your days will no longer feel like a repetition of yesterday, but like steps toward something greater. Small actions, small victories, but each time becoming a version of yourself that is stronger, wiser, and more aligned with who you want to be.

You move beyond doubt, past the fear of failure, and discover that failure is simply part of the journey. The path is never straight, but as long as you keep going, you’re exactly where you need to be. And that’s what life is really about.

So ask yourself: if time will pass anyway, how do you want to spend it? Endlessly scrolling, or investing in something that will move you forward?

Time is fleeting, it won’t wait,

But the skills you build will elevate.