How To Stay Consistent With Any Habit for a Lifetime
We make our habits. Then our habits make us. This is something you might have heard of. But it becomes really difficult to create habits and keep doing them for a long period because you don’t understand a few things.
And in this article, I’ll share a few simple tweaks to your mindset that will make you 10X more consistent.
1) Forget Your Ego
Your ego will tell you that you can easily exercise for 1 hour. It will tell you, you can easily lift 10–20 kgs in the gym. It will tell you you can get six-pack abs in 30 days.
And somehow, you know they aren’t realistic but you still try to do that when you start out. And due to you not meeting your unrealistic goal you quit real soon because you feel ashamed.
That’s why accept the fact that you’re not that great. Even if you do 1 push-up today, that is progress for you. So, that’s why you need to start small.
Start with a 20 min workout session, and start with 2 kg dumbells. Start small and build consistency because you’ll have a lifetime to increase the volume.
2) 1 > 0
Doing something is better than doing nothing.
Most often we think that we make a box in our head which we only tick if we do 1 hour of workout or 5-mile run or 20-minute meditation or 1 hour of reading.
And if we did anything less than that we don’t tick the box and think that we are not worthy of progress. But the reality is anything is progress.
Doing just 1 pushup more than yesterday is progress. Doing just 1s of meditation is progress. Reading only 1 page extra from Yesterday is progress.
Don’t beat yourself for not being a master at your skill and not doing it for hours. Just appreciate yourself for at least being a beginner because not many people start.
3) Habit Tracker
What doesn’t get tracked can’t be measured. You need a habit tracker. Where you tick all the habits that you’re currently building. You need to track every fucking day of the good habits.
Habit trackers give you a sense of fulfillment as well as the feeling that you’re making progress. Because after a month when you see that you exercised for 26 days that month and meditated for 25 days and read books for 27 days.
You’ll clearly see yourself in a good light. You’ll start to respect yourself.
And this can only be done if you track your habits by making a habit tracker.
