Improving Your Performance Under Pressure - The 1% Solution

There are not too many people who can say they have captained an Ashes winning series in cricket! Michael Vaughan can hold his hand up to being in a very elite group.

Vaughan’s new book, Michael Vaughan: Time to Declare - My Autobiography, charts his ascent to the world's No1 batsman, England captaincy and then the subsequent resignation and retirement. Above all, the book gives an excellent insight into the goldfish bowl of modern sport and will give even non-cricketing fans some real gems to help in all areas.

One of the aspects of performance improvement he mentions in the book is the 1% Solution.
 
Rather than looking at massive wholesale change, what are the small seemingly insignificant things you can look at which can make a difference to your performance. Whatever it is you want to improve upon, be that your game or your business, just take the time to write out a whole list of 1%'ers you could work on.
 
Experience with this approach is that the 1% seems manageable to the brain. It seems something that you can get a hold of and work on now. Just having the notion of ‘getting better’ is so vague. Once you have your list then get to work and you will begin to feel that momentum towards your destination is being created. The 1% should not be solely in one area, look at your whole life and as you make all of these seemingly insignificant changes you will look back and see some dramatic results.

Improving Your Performance Under Pressure - The 1% Solution