When your boss is inconsistent, stop trying to change them. Instead, figure out what they actually value—consistency, reliability, profit—and frame your requests around those values. It works better than hoping they'll just get their act together.
Shauna what it comes down to is figuring out what they value and framing your transition in that sense. Usually they care about consistency, reliability, profitability. So how do we frame what we need to do in that lens to be motivating? Usually that will say something like, hey, you aren't really practicing what you want the rest of us to around tracking what you do when you don't track that. I can't get things off your plate because I can't recognize where are you spending your time? What is pulling you away from the important work you have to do for something to force them to change their habits, they need really good reason. So you have to work in whatever motivating factor works for that person. It could be an emotional, you know, argument of like, here's why this helps us all feel more peaceful and you more peaceful. It could be time, it could be money, it could be finance. You need to really persuade them and it needs to be a deep found belief. It's kind of like getting people to go to the gym. It's really hard, if not impossible to get somebody to go to the gym because you tell them to. It's really easy to get people to go to the gym if they believe in it and they're committed to it, which is something you can't do for them. Or if they pay a personal trainer to force them to go to the gym.
