Five steps to build consistency: know your why, pick one thing, make a simple plan, schedule it, and track winning streaks. A bonus tip: when resistance hits, observe it instead of fighting it.
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If you struggle being consistent, here's a quick five step approach to building consistency. There's also a bonus tip at the end that will prevent you from tripping over when 90% of people do. Let's get started. 1. Reflect on your why? Why do you want it? Why is it so important? This will ground you and help you focus on the long term benefits, balancing the short term pain. Our brains need to buy into what we do. If it doesn't see the usefulness, it will disregard it. 2. Focus on one thing. Your mind has limited willpower to deploy on activities. Once it's depleted, it can be incredibly hard to do any useful work. Save your energy for the things that matter the most. 3. Outline a simple but clear action plan. It will serve as your roadmap to keep you in the right direction. Our brains become more inefficient when they're constantly having to decide what to do. Focus on making steps that are realistic for where you are right now. 4. Schedule it into your life. Make it a priority. Our brains are constantly scanning for things to do. It can easily miss the most important things amongst the noise, especially if there's an incentive not to think about it because it's hard or you're scared. We need to raise the bar of importance so it can help keep us on track despite what life throws at you. For example, you can use calendar appointments. 5. Go for winning streaks. Try and link up long chains of repeated actions and keep a record of it. This will unconsciously program your mind that this goal is in fact important. Your brain will start to recognize and associate these actions as part of your lifestyle, turning it into a habit. It also has the added benefit of giving you that dopamine hit every time you get a small win. And finally the bonus. So surf the urge. You will feel resistance and get the urge to run away at the first sight of short term pain. Instead. Observe the feeling, ride it, let it pass and keep moving. This will help build your mental toughness and make you stronger. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to like and subscribe as I'll be doing lots more content on this.
