Aim for a strong average, not perfection. If you hit 80% consistency on health habits each month, occasional bad days won't derail your results. That steady performance compounds into impressive outcomes over months and years.
What matters much more is your average over a longer time horizon. Consistently hitting a strong average over a long time horizon will absolutely get you the results that you're after. You do not need perfection, and in fact perfection is the enemy. So if you have a consistently high average over a long time horizon, you can weather most things and still achieve incredibly impressive results. You can weather a bad day and even a bad week. And in fact, in the most extreme example, you can even weather a couple of bad months if you have a high average over the course of 12 to 18 months. And actually, that's exactly why I choose a target for 80% consistency for the month when it comes to all of my foundational health habits.
