After 31 days... Do I feel '36% better'?

This is my end-January, year-to-date review of the last 30 days on the journey of daily, continuous improvement.

👉 For 31 Days Straight — since the start of this year — I embarked on my goal of getting ‘1% Better’ every day.

👉 I wanted to see → if it was indeed possible — to create a 37x Better Life by the end of the year… by compounding daily improvement.

Verdict after one month?

↳ I’m not sure I feel 36% better today, than I did at the start of the year. I'm not sure I can say my life is 36% better.

But I always knew that. I know it’s almost impossible to quantify (for now) — any improvement to life in general. The ‘1%’ concept was meant to focus on small, but meaningful gains… rather than an attempt to quantify every single effort.

↳ Also, Life happens. Which is code for — there will be frustrations and disappointments along the journey. And even if I know that I’ve grown, improved my self / thinking / health / habits / relationships etc… it may not feel better…

↳ But it’s actually better. I know that I’ve improved myself daily for the past 31 days. And it’s an incredible feeling. It’s a feeling that goes deeper than even the surface-level emotions (frustrations and disappointments etc… as intense as they may seem).

Tonight — I will review all my actions… all the plans, lists, tools that I’ve created, to sustain new habits, new thinking, new programs, and more.

And if you’re new to this Newsletter, you’ll see my journey over the last 30 days — listed below…

• Day One — Make a Public Commitment
• Day Two — Set Moonshots. Kill Small Goals
• Day Three — Raise the Stakes
• Day Four — Plan to Fight Intelligently
• Day Five — Write My Anti-Goals
• Day Six — Reduce Wine Consumption
• Day Seven — Design (and Establish) a Routine for Rest
• Day Eight — Build an Emergency Contacts List
• Day Nine — Make Time to Get Naked
• Day 10 — Understand the Hard Times Growth Paradox
• Day 11 — Stay Strategic, but... Make Time for Craft
• Day 12 — Create a Plan to Increase Effectiveness on LinkedIn
• Day 13 — Create an Inventory of Bottlenecks, Friction & Flow (BFF)
• Day 14 — Screen (my phone) for Distractions
• Day 15 — Conduct a 'Noise Audit'
• Day 16 — Learn to Embrace 'Nothing'
• Day 17 — Get Out of Bubble Trouble
• Day 18 — Design Great Transitions
• Day 19 — Create an Intermittent Fasting Habit
• Day 20 — Kill the Troll of Self-critique / Put Up an Affirmation Wall
• Day 21 — Start an AI Certificate Program
• Day 22 — Multiple Effort with 'Synergy (Sub) Goals'
• Day 23 — Start a 'Small Wins' List (and Learn to Celebrate Them)
• Day 24 — Unwrong Yourself
• Day 25 — Join a Peer Forum
• Day 26 — Design Minimum Viable Days
• Day 27 — Build a Personal GPT Workforce
• Day 28 — Future-proof with a Structured Study Program (in AI)
• Day 29 — Serve Others Instead
• Day 30 — Start a Decision Workbook (For Better Decision Making)
• Day 31 (Today) — Monthly Review

Thank you for joining me on my journey. Tomorrow, I start a new month, and I'm excited.