I think that is the right approach in trading. Not the fact that you are aiming for 1% every day, because in reality I don't think traders will actually stop trading if they achieved 1% on that day. I think they make their analysis, and they play accordingly and try to take the most out of the price variance. Sometimes they will win way more than 1% on any given day, and some other times, they will need to accept a loss because the trade went wrong.
In the end, having an average of 1% every day, is perfectly achievable in my opinion, depending on your strategy. Some traders don't even trade every day, and that is the only point that doesn't look good on your question. If the setup that you normally like to trade is not there, then you shouldn't trade, just because you feel you need to have some profit.
So in the end, recognizing that something "as low" as 1% a day, is quite good, is a step in the right direction, but you should really be picky on your trades, specially on bear markets.
At first, it may seem easy to make 1% every day but that is not the case people see that low number not understanding that the more money you have and the more money you earn the more difficult is to make 1% of that, if you have 100 and you earn 1% each day at the end of the year you have more than 36 times your original investment you will have 3600 and after two years of earning 1% daily you will have more than 140k.