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More About This Title 5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results
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5% More presents a painless route to change, with results that can last a lifetime. Whether you want to boost your health, wealth, or wisdom, this book reveals a key technique that makes it stick. You may already know that breaking big goals into small chunks makes them easier to achieve, but the trick is in making those chunks large enough to be productive, yet small enough to be sustainable. This book shows you how to bring your goals within reach with only five percent more effort. Five percent is almost unnoticeable in terms of effort—but it accrues quickly, with each step boosting the baseline. Increase sales, decrease your marathon time, boost your savings, or master a new skill. Just five percent more can get you where you want to be.
Small changes, small commitments, and small adjustments can lead to very big results. You can accomplish more than you ever thought possible in your business or in your life. This book walks you through the 5% More strategy to help you map your path to the future.
- Accomplish big changes with very small steps
- Make bigger leaps in progress each step of the way
- Break big goals into manageable milestones
- Find a change that you can stick to for the long-term
Mountain climbers don't conquer Everest on their first time out—attempting to do so would be a tragic failure. No matter what your goal, no matter what your baseline, small, incremental steps set you up for success. 5% More gives you a concrete strategy for realizing your goals and making changes that last.
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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 bestselling Ask More, Get More.
To learn more, please visit www.michael-alden.com or connect with Michael on social media:
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Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
SECTION I The Philosophy of 5 Percent More
1 How to Give 5 Percent More—or Less 3
An Idea without a Plan Is Just an Idea 4
Take Them as Far as They Can See, Then They Will See Further 8
High School Hero to College Zero—What Does It Take to Be a Star? 10
Making the Grade—And Then Some? 12
Law School—Then What? 13
2 5 Percent More about 5 Percent More 18
Personal Accountability for Your Performance 21
The Many Applications of 5 Percent More 24
SECTION II Give 5 Percent More to Yourself
3 Be 5 Percent More Successful 29
Freeze-Pop Fantasies 30
A Dream without a Plan Is Just a Dream 31
Making Money Doing Nothing 32
5 Percent Days 35
Plan to Give 5 Percent More 36
4 Make 5 Percent More Money 37
5 Percent Mentality 39
5 Be 5 Percent Smarter 49
Team Leader to General Counsel 50
What If Your SAT Score Was Higher? 52
High School Grad/College Grad Income Gap 54
LSAT/GRE 54
How Do We Ensure a Successful Child? 56
6 Be 5 Percent Stronger and Faster 57
Elite Athletes and What 5 Percent Means 58
Grow, Baby, Grow 62
5 Percent More Steps at a Time 64
7 Be 5 Percent Healthier 66
Meditation 68
Small Things Go a Long Way 70
8 Be 5 Percent Happier 75
Expand Your Happiness Horizons 77
The Top Doesn’t Mean You Will Fall Off—Recognize Your 5 Percent Moments 79
Carpe Diem 80
“Naked and Afraid” 81
Your Tunes, Your Wheels, and Your Clothes 83
SECTION III Give 5 Percent More to Others
9 Give 5 Percent More to the People You Work With 89
Success Is the Direct Result of Your Responsibility to Others 90
My Journey from Young Lawyer to Business Owner Was Taking Shape 93
10 Give 5 Percent More to the People You Work For 95
The 5 Percent More Mentality—Where Does It Come From? 98
Always Give More Than Expected 99
11 Make Life 5 Percent More Exciting for Others 101
Why Are Kids So Happy? 102
It’s Contagious—Trust Me! 103
Do 5 Percent More Stuff 105
12 Reading 5 Percent More to Our Children 106
5 Percent More Ways to Read to Your Child—Even If You Can’t 107
SECTION IV Give 5 Percent More to Your Business
13 5 Percent More Revenue 113
5 Percent Increases Mean Stable Business 115
5 Percent More at Work 116
Smarter Than Albert Einstein and Better Than the Domino Effect! 117
I’m Wrong 119
Troubled Past to Taking Just One Class 119
5 Percent More Customers 120
Just a Little Bit More! 121
14 5 Percent More Profit = Being 5 Percent More
Efficient and 5 Percent More Accountable at Work 123
One Thing That Is Always Constant Is Change 125
Locker Room Story 128
Just Two and a Half Doors a Day 129
My Dad the Sales Guy 130
Yes, You Can Make More Time—At Least 5 Percent More! 132
15 5 Percent More Perseverance 134
A Little Boy Named Billy 135
Unreasonable Action 136
Unrealistic Goals 137
Baby Steps 138
It Isn’t Always Easy 139
SECTION V 5 Percent Compounded
16 Less Is More 143
Massive and Immediate Action Doesn’t Work 143
Too Fast and Too Furious—How Not to Do It! 144
Take 5 Percent Less 146
More Than 5 Percent More 148
5 Percent More Is Massive Action 150
One or Two Last Arguments for Less Is More! 151
Rinse Your Cottage Cheese 153
17 Change 5 Percent of Your Habits 155
Stop Lying 156
A Little Change Science 157
Quit Smoking in 20 Days 159
18 This Changes Everything—It’s a Lot Bigger Than 5 Percent 166
No One Will Outwork Me 166
Recognize What Level You Are At 168
Can’t Skip a Level . . . Or Can You? 170
Stop Dreaming 171
Don’t Give Up 172
19 A Line in the Sand—What If Everyone Did This? 175
The Next Step 179
Next Level Stuff 180
Notes 182
Index 185