By Colby Kultgen An App That Tells You Which Products Are Killing You, Everyone Should Have an Analog Bag, and The "Teach Myself List" Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A powerful question to get a bad day back on track I love this question that therapist and best-selling author Lori Gottlieb uses with her clients:...
20 days ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen National Quitter's Day, A Few Friend Nights You Should Try, and How to Manage Anxious Thoughts in 60 Seconds Read online / Read time: 4 minutes 1% Better is brought to you by: I struggled with negative self-talk for years. So when Joel Bein reached out and showed me his innovative method for disrupting those patterns, I knew I wanted to share it with you. He’s created a free guide called 5 Steps to End Negative Self-Talk, built around a 10-minute technique for clearing the...
27 days ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen Depression Hates a Moving Target, 10 Habits to Master in 2026, and Regularmaxxing Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A sentence that's been living rent-free in my head Depression hates a moving target. A bit of an oversimplification, yes, but there's a lot of power in these five words. I've dealt...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen The Most Underrated Goal-Setting Tool, A 4-Inch E-ink Reader, and A Visual That Lives Rent-Free In My Head Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A reminder that "too late" is a myth I love the message here. It's so easy to get caught in the trap of "I'm too old", or "it's too late". But here's the...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen 🎁 2026 Goal/Habit Tracker, A Meal Prep Hack That Blew My Mind, and A Better Way to Set Goals Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A 2026 goal tracker I built for you! It's back!! For the last 3 years, I've been sharing a comprehensive goal/habit tracker with my readers. Not many changes this year, but...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
By Colby Kultgen The 10 Best Things I Read in 2025 Read online / Read time: 6 minutes I read so many great things in 2025. Articles. Tweet threads. Essays. Interviews. It was a struggle trying to narrow them down to 10, but here's what made the cut. I hope they're as useful to you as they were to me. Enjoy! 1. The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking by Shane Parrish I'm not exaggerating when I say this article changed my life. I think about it at least once per week (often more). The key...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
By Colby Kultgen Read online / Read time: 5 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I usually share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries from the past week. Today’s issue is going to be a little different. I’ve put together a 2025 Personal Year-In-Review exercise for you—something to help you reflect, learn, and plan for a stronger year ahead. In partnership with Wispr Flow: My favorite productivity tool of 2025 Out of every productivity I tried in 2025, one...
2 months ago • 4 min read
By Colby Kultgen 10 Ideas That Changed My Life in 2025 Read online / Read time: 6 minutes Well friends, we've officially made it to the end of 2025. That means it's time for cozy sweaters, eggnog, and deep personal reflection. I spent a lot of time this week thinking about the ideas that shaped me most this year and, in the spirit of giving, I wanted to share them with you. Here they are in all their glory (plus a little extra commentary from me). Enjoy! 1. Choose slow dopamine This idea...
2 months ago • 5 min read
By Colby Kultgen How to Remember Everything You Read, 42 Things Everyone Should Learn to Do, and The Best Twitter Thread of 2025 Read online / Read time: 4 minutes Hello friends! Welcome to 1% Better. The newsletter where I share my 5 favorite ideas, lessons, and discoveries of the week—no fluff, just the good stuff. Let's get right into it. A tweet about the most underrated skill in work I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Developing a bias for action is one of the most valuable...
3 months ago • 4 min read