1% Better

Good morning, Cadre. I'm Craig Thielen and this is 1% better. And it's Monday morning, it's 7am and I'm super excited to be here. Today is the first live stream of 1% better. And it's a great day to do that. It's Monday morning and what better day of the week and better time, 7am Central to get started on doing this. Hi, Nikki, Nice to see you and just get the week off started. Right. I'm very grateful to be in able to be the first one on this amazing platform and to see you all Monday morning. So who is Craig?

Craig is. Hi, Nikki. I'm a management consultant. I've been helping companies and organizations and teams and people improve for over 30 years. It's hard to believe and I've learned a lot through that process and I continue to every single day. And at some point along the way, I realized that improving is much more than a process. It's much more than technology. It's much more than a methodology. It's even, I used to think part of culture and part of strategy, which are very important organizations.

But I realized that it's really a mindset and how we improve is a mindset. And through that we can do anything through that 1% better mindset. So I hope to share some of those nuggets along the way and I hope to hear yours. I think we all have. Hi, Jules. Good morning. I hope. I know we all have little nuggets of improvements and sometimes they might feel scattered, but they're. They're there. And so I'm going to dig in deeper today. I'm going to talk a little bit about what is this mindset, but that's just a little bit about my background.

So. Yeah, let's dig in. Seeing chat? No video. Oh, you know, I had that issue. I've been watching some others and occasionally the video didn't show up for me either. So hopefully that's not an issue for everybody. I'm not quite sure if there's anything I can do. I'm going to keep going. No video. Okay. Well, I guess I have some 1% better to do on how to make the video go. Yeah. So what is 1% better? It's really, as I said, a mindset. And it's really, I believe who we are as humans and how we get there is through this mindset.

It's about incremental improvement. It's about focus, and it's about just realizing the many steps it takes to accomplish things and through These many steps, really anything can be accomplished. Any goal, any dream, anything that you want to accomplish through these small steps. Nobody accomplished great transformational things in one step. It happens through a series of small steps. And the learning from step to step is really the key. It's, as they say, the journey. One of the things I love about it is it's a simple truth.

And I love simple truths. So simple truths are things that on the surface appear simple, easy to understand. Sometimes they even appear simplistic. But in reality, they may take a lifetime to fully understand. And I believe this is one of those. So I'm hoping that you all can share your 1% better. What did you learn and do the last week and every day? What is your plan? It can be a very small thing. It can be, I'm going to listen to a podcast. I'm going to listen to a Cadre. I'm going to take a walk.

I'm going to just take a deep breath in between meetings. Could be anything. And I hope that we can go deeper in subsequent sessions. And we will. And I will be back next Monday to dig in deeper. And I guess thanks for joining everybody that joined. I'm looking forward to future sessions. And if you want to get deeper right now on 1% better and what it is, also stories. The stories of what other people have done and accomplished are very powerful and the incremental steps that they took. So I'm going to share some of those stories.

But if you want to learn more, go deeper, you can find me, of course, on Cadre, you can find me on social media, and you can find the 1% better improvement podcasts on all platforms as well. Until then, I hope you have a great day and a 1% better day.