HOW TO USE THE 1% FACTOR TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS

In any endeavor, athletic or not, winning is there for the taking by improving your performance by a few percentage points, if that. A fraction of a second is the difference in winning gold or going home empty handed. In team sports those split second improvements put you in an entirely different category than everyone else. While a
huge leap in improvement can seem like a daunting task at first glance, by simply doing a little bit more today than you did yesterday will lead to greatness.

So you always wanted to write a book, but never had the time? What if I told you that if you wrote just two paragraphs each day you would have a book that was just about 200 pages in one year's time. Don’t even try to tell me you don’t have the time to write two paragraphs each day.

The same principle applies to strength and conditioning. Adding work and improving your efforts over time will give you the ability to perform feats you never thought possible. This advice is very simple and elementary, yet overlooked by the majority of people in all walks of life.

You must ask yourself what it is exactly that you want. When you have a vivid picture of that, embrace it and make it come to life. And then it is time to go out and take the necessary steps that are needed to reach that goal. It comes down to the question, "How bad do you really want it?" I ask myself that question every time a negative thought comes in my mind. Sometimes the answer is, "Not very much." That just tells me that the goal is not that important after all. But when I want something so bad that I can literally taste it, I know it is a true passion and I cannot be stopped.

These small victories will lead to your large goal, whatever that may be. Start your small improvements today and they will lead to many major improvements, often sooner than anticipated.