“One Percent Better” Challenge!
If you’ve ever read the Slight Edge, you know about this general idea.
Starting December 1st, we are all (yes, that means you, and me, and everyone else who wants to join!) going to do something small that will make our lives 1 percent better every day!
Not sure what this looks like?
Here’s a few examples:
Eat a strawberry along with your cookie
Read one page of a book
Drink two more sips of water
Write one line in your journal
Delete one email
Put your clothes out for the next day
March in place for 5 seconds every time you use the bathroom
Put away one thing that’s near you
Look up the meaning to one word
Text one friend
Drink tea instead of soda for one meal
You get the idea.
BUT!
Don’t go “typical” if you possibly can. Think outside the box. Come up with something super random every day to make your life a TINY bit better! Just 1%. Google it. Ask AI to give you ideas. Ask friends. I don’t care how you do it hehe!
Just post about it and tell us about your adventures! Tag someone, who you think might enjoy this challenge <3
December is OUR month. Let’s CRUSH it! <3
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love this !!!! ♥️
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In the meantime, start coming up with (and sharing!) ideas that will make someone’s life one percent better! <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 put the plate in the sink to soak after eating is a great place to start 😊
That’s perfect <3
Oh i love this. I'm super excited to start. 🙂↕️
Love this idea
@jesusredeemedme2425 I'll try but winters my hard time
Your 1 percent better can be using a hot water bottle or socks so you feel cozier and safer <3 It’s all purely up to each person’s choice and interpretation <3 You could have warm tea to calm you instead of drinking plain water <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 I live off of camomile tea already but yeah I can try eating better, I starve myself when I'm nervous
Buy something that REALLY tempts you <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 Burritos
YESSSSS buy really yummy ones! <3
What did you do today and yesterday, for this challenge? <3
I want to dust my laptop (hard to see the screen lol), and make some more structure to my evenings, so I’m not tempted to eat the boredom away <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 Try playing videos games they pass the time :)
I don’t own any, but free online games are a good idea… Know any good ones??
@jesusredeemedme2425 Well like tetris, candy crush, I like those bubble shooter games its like tetris in a way. There's card games, hearts is fun.
Too basic for my taste.
I have a world geography quiz game on my phone if you want to learn where every country and island is. It's fun
My phone storage is almost 100% full… lol
@jesusredeemedme2425 Well my usual games are all war based, so you probably wouldn't like those
I tried COD once and d**d like 8 million times XD
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Well, I just spend half an hour replying, then it all went away! I guess I'll try tomorrow.
Aww! I’m sorry :(
But are you in… or are you IN? Hehe
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Well, I think I'm in, but it's often been said, "everything's an illusion." Although I have to say, even that statement is an illusion because in the absence of reality, there's nothing to observe. I think it's more accurate to say that the mind, on a slight to an extreme continuum, filters and derives illusion from true reality.
I didn't detect illusion when I tapped the space bar and all my text went away. 😜
My earth shaking revelation on offer yesterday was the observation that so many items are put into the laundry, with care being taken to make sure they're all "right side out." Then when removing the clean laundry, 3/5 of the items end up being "wrong side out." Finally, after 3/4 of a century, it occurred to me that I should turn all my laundry inside out before washing it. After all, the inside is what makes contact with skin oil and ash, right? So, I started doing my laundry that way, and guess what? Now, 2/5 times, the laundry comes out right side out. There is, no doubt some kind of highly scientific explanation for why laundry has this biased disposition, but I think I'll stick with the illusion that all laundry has a degree of sentience.
Can the daily 1%'s be retroactive? Must they be specific concepts or multiple manifestations of the same or similar ones?
Do 2% today to catch up hehe
Do something different every day :)
It’s today! List one tiny thing you’ll do today to make your life one percent better <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 planned and prepped a very easy and fast prep dinner the moment I got home so I have something to eat later! I also made myself lunch yesterday to take to work today. It was the best lunch I ever had lol
Awww, that’s awesome <3
@jesusredeemedme2425 yesss, it was very tasty, and hopefully the dinner will be too 😊
@jesusredeemedme2425 today's dinner (sadly just the leftovers in the respective pots lol, because was so hungry I completely annihilated it before remembering I should take a photo lol) so well. It was way too delicious and I had way too many pickles 😂 I hope I won't get an allergic reaction but hey. Even if I do, absolutely worth it 😁
(Pork, oven baked with some garlic, salt and herbs de Provence + rice (onion, salt, rice, water and a rice cooker that keeps peeing on the carpet) and some pickles.) I'm full to the brim. 10/10, would recommend
That sounds AMAZING <3
“Keeps peeing on the carpet” XD
@jesusredeemedme2425 yep. It says you can put 4 measuring cups of rice into it. It has a line inside how much water it needs for said 4 cups of rice. But when you do it, it will end up peeing itself through the top went, and i can wrap the bottom of it around the cord with paper towels as much as i want, it will always make a mess on the carpet, but i´m also too stubborn to make a smaller dose of rice because come on now. I´m not washing the pot and making a new batch tomorrow. The rice cooker needs to cope 😂
I HATE it when rice cookers pee all over the place lollllll XD jk
@jesusredeemedme2425 yep. It says it can handle 4 cups. It even comes with the dang measuring cup. And then when you make it make the said 4 cups of rice, it just goes lol. No. 😂
It’s time for a new one. Lol
@jesusredeemedme2425 it is new 😂 we have it for like a year or so. It is just trying to estabilish dominance and i am refusing to acknowledge it 😂
