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📈 Simple changes | Weekly Wharmby #60
Making improvements to our lives are much easier when they are broken down in to small changes.
Jake Wharmby
December 06, 2022
Hello!
There have been quite a few new subscribers over the last few weeks (welcome), so now feels as good a time as ever to sum up what this weekly email is all about.
🚶🏻 Why Weekly Wharmby?
The main reason I want to share these emails is to share my journey to be a better person in the hopes it may help others too. Self-improvement in a nutshell.
This interest has developed over the last few years, from reading about Stoicism to listening to hyper-focused podcasts such as Diary of a CEO and High Performance. However, the issue with an ‘interest’ in self-improvement is that an interest in self-improvement does not equal actual self-improvement.
Simple Habits
Making improvements are much easier when they are broken down in to small changes. Making sure not to sleep with my phone next to me at night. Tracking my nutrition using MyFitnessPal. Developing a running habit. I love finding small little habits like these that have a huge effect in the long run.
For example, by sleeping without my phone next to me, I:
Don't scroll social media in bed at night
I read before I go to sleep
I wake up and get straight out of bed, instead of scroll through my emails etc
A small habit, amounting to a big change in my sleep amount and quality - and therefore health and happiness. This is the idea behind atomic habits.
1*1.01³⁶⁵=37.8
If you improve by just 1% everyday for 365 days in a year, you'll be 38 times better than when you started.
now equals ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (feel free to count)
When you see it like that, it's shows how much of a difference you can make over a year, and let's face it - 1% a day isn't hard. I like to think that a 1% difference could be getting up to go for a run when I didn't feel like it, or learning a new recipe.
As I said, I love the idea of small changes having a massive effect over time, so this will keep popping up in my newsletters.
This newsletter took elements of an issue I wrote well over a year ago, where I wanted to set out what I wanted to achieve with this email. It’s good to see my priorities haven’t changed!
This week I’m: ⬇️
✉️ Planning next week’s email: a Weekly Wharmby inspired gift guide
📺 Watching A Spy Among Friends on ITVX - looks like a cracking series (out on 8th Dec)
📖 Reading More to That’s excellent blog - great long reads on life and philosophy
💭 Thinking about what I should work on next year. It is that time of year after all
💬 And finally, a quote
We are surrounded by things that we can’t always control: our jobs, our relationships, our families; illnesses, recessions, global pandemics. But if you want to be a high performer, you must realise that how you react to setbacks is down to you alone.
Jake Humphrey, Damien Hughes - High Performance
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