How can we escape the rat race and lead a more meaningful, fulfilling, and healthy life? We can start by setting our intentions and taking some risks. Making each day just one percent better.
Just one percent better challenges you to question the societal norm. Our consumer-driven society chains us to jobs we don’t love, so we can pay off the debt for things we don’t need. We can choose to be a little bit better everyday. Start by being frugal and intentional with our spending. Then get back in touch with self-sufficiency, valuing our friends and family, and putting our health first.
My journey to just one percent better is less than perfect.
I don’t have five perfectly curated pieces of furniture and an impeccable ten-item capsule wardrobe. Nor am I a prodigy with over five million dollars invested in the stock market, traveling the world, staying at five-star hotels. I’m not a jack of all trades who can change the oil in my car. I can’t build a tool shed in my backyard in one day. I’ve never cooked a chocolate souffle, knit a blanket, or run a marathon.
I’m just a pretty normal human being who got sick of wasting my time at a job I didn’t really like to buy things I didn’t really want and store them in a house I didn’t really need.
Let’s make the most of the short amount of time we have on this earth! Since our time here is short, I see no need to waste it on meaningless things, doing meaningless pursuits. And neither should you! Begin your journey to become just one percent better everyday, and start improving your happiness and the world around you.
Sure, the path less traveled is risky, but so is a wasted life!!