What separates people who consistently improve from people who repeatedly remain where they are?

It is rarely one extraordinary decision.

Exceptional performance is usually built through a combination of clear goals, useful skills, focused practice, disciplined execution, feedback, reflection and continuous improvement.

How to Reach the 1% Club is a practical certificate course designed to help you develop a personal system for moving from ordinary effort toward exceptional performance.

The term “1% Club” is used in this course as a concept representing a commitment to becoming an unusually capable, disciplined and continuously improving version of yourself.

It is not about being perfect.

It is not about becoming better than everyone else.

It is not about working 18 hours a day.

It is not about comparing your life constantly with other people.

Instead, it is about developing the ability to:

Think better.
Learn better.
Work better.
Decide better.
Communicate better.
Execute better.
Improve continuously.

Research on goal-setting has found that specific and challenging goals, supported by feedback and appropriate action strategies, can improve performance.

Research on deliberate practice also highlights the importance of focused practice, feedback, problem-solving and repeated refinement in developing expertise, while later research cautions against treating practice as the only explanation for exceptional performance.

This course therefore takes a balanced approach.

You will not simply be told to “work harder”.

You will learn how to identify what deserves your effort, how to improve it, how to measure progress and how to build systems that make improvement sustainable.