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How to Get 1% Better Every Day: Lessons from a (very) Humbling Experience

Tom Addison
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
4 min readJan 21, 2025
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“Little strokes fell great oaks.” –Benjamin Franklin

I’ll hold my hands up.

In the past, I preached the wrong advice about self-improvement.

I used to be one of these people who’d say things like:

“Go for a 5k run.”

Get up and go to the gym every day.”

Or, “Wake up at 5 am and get ahead of everyone else.”

You know, the usual and predictable kind of self-help advice that gets used over and over again.

But an experience last year shifted my entire perception of self-improvement.

Last year I volunteered at a local drug and alcohol service.

It was so far out of my comfort zone it was untrue.

To be honest, I was ridiculously intimidated and had no idea what to expect.

What unfolded, though, was life-changing.

It was an experience that opened my eyes to a whole new dimension I had no idea even existed.

Here are three powerful lessons it taught me…

Start small

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