Continuous improvement - Improve 1% every day

The marginal gains philosophy is really easy to understand; it comes down to the idea that, if you just improve 1% each day, you're going to accumulate some pretty hefty results for minimal perceived effort.

However, who can get excited about a 1% daily improvement? Well, think that over a year, those daily 1% improvements will have stacked up to give a total improvement of over 3,700%!

Improving 1% each day can yield some BIG dividends, and the best example of that is probably the GB cycling Olympic team in London 2012 with Chris Brailsford at the helm.

The whole principle came from the idea that if you break down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together

No stone was left unturned; they even paid attention to things like always washing your hands thoroughly to help avoid getting sick or taking your own pillow when you travel so you're better rested.

Thanks to this "aggregation of marginal gains" the British cycling team dominated the competition.

However, this isn't just about professional athletes, the basic idea of accumulating small increments of progress can work for everything.

Healthcare, aviation, learning and even speed eating have benefited in the past by this philosophy, so…what can you do right now to improve by just 1%?