Knowledge Center: 5% More: Making Small Changes To Achieve Extraordinary Results By Michael Alden (Summary)

5% More: Making Small Changes To Achieve Extraordinary Results By Michael Alden (August 29, 2016) (Hardcover)
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Key Concepts

Despite all the effort spent on personal development, most people are not where they want to be and they still want more in life. To achieve greater fulfillment, keep these following points in mind:

You can only achieve your goals if you take action. Taking action is easy, and anyone can do it.
You can dramatically change your life, and even exceed your goals, by putting in 5 percent more effort, 5 percent more dedication, and 5 percent more commitment.
Determination to turn a viable idea into reality is what separates successful from unsuccessful people. Dreams are for sleeping, and goals are for achieving.
Success is a moving target that means different things to different people. Only you can define it for yourself.
“Five percent more” means more than just extra effort; it means thinking differently and learning how to live smarter. It’s not about completely changing your thought process; it’s about baby steps.

Introduction

In 5% More, Michael Alden offers simple, common-sense methods for giving 5 percent more to your family, your colleagues, your managers, your business, and yourself. He illustrates how adopting the 5 Percent Model can make a dramatic difference in your achievements, no matter where you are in life. Through research and inspiring stores, he demonstrates how step-by-step improvements have a greater chance for success than do large leaps, which often result in failure. Putting forth 5 percent more allows you to set goals that are small enough to be achievable and yield productive, sustainable, and significant results.

The Philosophy Of 5 Percent More

In order to achieve 5 percent more, you need to take action. Taking action involves three steps:

Visualizing your goal.
Thinking about how to achieve your goal.
Working toward your goal.

People who reach the pinnacle of their success do more than others. They work a little bit harder, spend a little bit more time, and prepare just a little bit more to achieve greatness. Many people believe success is built through struggle, but if you can improve your chances of success by trying just a little bit harder, then the struggles will seem less daunting.

Alden stresses that the fundamental action is to follow the 5 Percent Model: Do just a little bit more each day in whatever you do. You won’t achieve your goal immediately, but the point is to strive for it, day in and day out. Striving to be just a little bit better each day will pay off. However, activity shouldn’t be confused with accomplishment; just because you are busy doesn’t mean you are accomplishing something.

Be honest with yourself about your accomplishments. One way to do that is to write down your goals for the day or week and then review them regularly to see what you did or did not accomplish. Bosses who implement realistic daily or weekly goal setting for their employees help make their teams and companies more efficient.

Give 5 Percent More To Yourself

However you define success, it takes time and doesn’t just happen. By giving 5 percent more, however, your success can be within reach. You do not become successful just by dreaming about it. Dreams can cloud your judgment when they are not based in reality. An idea without a plan is useless, and a dream without a plan is even worse. To achieve your goals, you need to spend more time working out your plan and less time dreaming about it.

Sometimes, achieving success requires not just 5 percent more of the same thing but 5 percent more of something different. Spending just a little bit of time to develop a plan can help you determine what that something different is. Even a plan that is completely wrong is better than no plan at all, and it can be adjusted as needed. The 5 Percent Model is about always being willing to try, think, and give a little bit more of all of you.

Alden asserts that the best way to make more money is to do more than what is expected of you—essentially, to do 5 percent more without the expectation of additional compensation. The concept of giving 5 percent more can lead you to make more money in simple ways. For example, by doing 5 percent more every day, people can even drag themselves out of poverty. Baby steps and micro-successes can help alleviate poverty because small actions have the potential to have a huge impact.

Being smarter isn’t always about test scores and transcripts; it’s about learning to live smarter. Becoming 5 percent smarter takes more than extra effort; it requires thinking differently. Character traits such as integrity, grit, discipline, and empathy are just as vital. Thinking about how to get to the next level—and taking action to do so—is at least as important as being smart, if not more so.

Whether in your field or simply in the field of life, if you are just 5 percent better or try 5 percent harder, you will achieve greatness. However, Alden recommends forgetting about greatness—just get better. Use a partner to help make you accountable when necessary, and take advantage of technology when it makes sense.

When it comes to health and wellness, Americans are always looking for a quick fix or a magic potion, but rarely do they want to change their lifestyles. Yet the small acts you do each day can make a difference in your health. Certain studies espouse the long-term health benefits of meditation and massage therapy—both simple activities that relieve stress and improve the flow of blood and oxygen and build muscle. Something as easy as smiling can positively impact your health, as smiling increases white blood cells, releases endorphins, lowers stress hormones, and can even increase your lifespan. Smiling 5 percent more each day is a simple yet effective way to become 5 percent healthier. Studies show that even fake smiling can help!

Too many people lack self-awareness; they blame others for their unhappiness or situations in life. Before looking at others, you need to take a hard look at yourself, stop making excuses, and ask yourself the questions that no one else is asking. Being able to appreciate life is key to being able to make your life better. Your mind-set changes when you slowly become more appreciative each day. Savor the small things that make you happy. Once you learn to appreciate the smaller things—the 5 percent things—you can build on the greater ones.

Give 5 Percent More To Others

Alden learned in one of his first jobs that it’s not what you’re getting from your work that makes you a success, but what you give to it. When it seems like you’re working more hours than everyone else, look at your coworkers to see if you are doing just a little bit more than they are. That is what separates good from great. It’s also the difference between succeeding and failing.

It’s important in business to face challenges head-on. When you avoid making decisions, you turn those decisions into mental monsters, which can eat away at you every day. Not confronting situations in a timely manner can be fatal to your organization and does a disservice to your coworkers. Instead, making small changes over time will have a big impact on both your company and your professional life. To ensure your longevity and long-term prosperity in the workplace, be sure those around you are taken care of. If you do a little bit more for them, you will get more.

If you view your life as more exciting, it will be more exciting. This involves changing not just how you think but how you act. Children are generally happier than adults, so try to see the world through their eyes. Rather than suppressing their excitement, emulate it. Soon, your excitement will rub off on other people. Just being 5 percent more excited will make life more exciting for others. Once your excitement about everything that you do increases, start doing more—in fact, your excitement will actually propel you to do more. When you realize how exciting life is, you will want to live and experience as much of it as possible.

Give 5 Percent More To Your Business

Successful businesspeople know how to cultivate customers to acquire and maintain them. They build rapport with their customers by spending time with them, offering incentives to buy more products, or just picking up the phone and saying hello. The ability to connect and interact with your customers is what provides your business with a solid foundation. It is smarter to spend a little more time with your current customers than to neglect them while chasing leads that may never materialize. Spending just 5 percent more time with current customers will reap long-term benefits.

In any career, the pressures of producing can be difficult to manage. Because of those pressures, people often try to accomplish too much too fast. Doing 5 percent more and making gradual improvements or modifications in behavior is much easier than making drastic changes. Scientific research into human nature shows that doing fewer things just a little better will improve productivity and, ultimately, success.

Many times, you may fall short of your goals or suffer temporary defeats. Pushing through just a little bit more than others do will dramatically increase your odds of overcoming these setbacks. Consistency is the key, even when encountering adversity. Whatever the task is, just tell yourself to do 5 percent more and then continue to build on it. While setting big goals is also a key element to success, achieving those goals is best done in small increments, via micro goals. Think big, but set these smaller, achievable goals that you can work on each day, gradually moving on to new ones.

5 Percent Compounded

You may think that by multitasking you are able to accomplish more, but scientific studies prove that you in fact get less done. By focusing more on the task at hand, you will accomplish more.

Most people resist change and get stuck in their ways. As a result, they fall short of their dreams and goals. They then believe that making sweeping changes will work, but these inevitably fail. The 5 Percent More model is all about change, but small change that can yield big results. Researchers developed a Stages of Change Model, which revealed that change occurs gradually. They identified six stages of change:

Precontemplation: Not yet thinking about change.
Contemplation: Warily thinking about change.
Determination: Deciding that change is needed.
Action: Making a plan and taking steps to change
Maintenance: Trying to stay on track.
Termination: Achieving your goal.

Understanding that change has defined stages makes it easier to see how small, 5 percent changes make sense.

What separates good hard-working people from great hard-working people is just the small percentage of time and effort needed to get them to the next level. Many people quit just before becoming wildly successful. Alden suggests instead that you remember the following:

Stop dreaming and start goal setting.
Don’t lose your vision.
Put a plan in action by setting small daily goals that will get you to your desired state.
Remember that sacrifices are necessary to reach a goal.
In the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity, take on those challenges a little bit at a time.
If you reach your goal by applying a 5 percent more mentality, set a new goal, and then do more.

Sustained growth must be gradual. Therefore, use the 5 Percent Model to make small changes—then witness the significant results.

About The Author

Michael Alden is one of America’s most popular direct-response hosts and personalities, and founder and CEO of Blue Vase® Marketing, a multimillion-dollar direct-response company capable of creating strategic marketing road maps for products and services. He is the author of the best-selling book Ask More, Get More.

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