How to be More Consistent at Anything You Do: Part 2
Description
In order to build consistency, try applying this framework:
1. Your core values need to align with your daily actions. The reason why you might struggle to create new habits is because you either don’t value them enough to rewire your lifestyle or you are captured by a self-limiting belief. You have to be exposed to other people that value those habits. Don’t look at their results, observe their lifestyle and processes, and ask yourself if you are willing to commit to those.
2. Strong reasons, will bring strong motivation. When you start running out of the emotional drive you need to tap into the reason why you cannot stop, the reason you doing this in the first place, and why you cannot fail the people who count on you.
3. Specificity will bring clarity: when, where, and how The more clear you are on the details the better your probability to succeed will be.
WOOP Wish: Explicitly articulate what it is that you want Outcome: Visualize how the end result would it look like, and how it would feel Obstacles: What could go wrong Plan: How can you tackle those obstacles
James Clears advice to - Optimize the physical environment to facilitate starting. You want your environment to trigger to do a behavior.
- Every time you succeed, give yourself a treat.
- Accumulation of actions becomes the evidence of who you are. The goal is not to change behavior, process or results but rather to reshape your identity
Tips for you
- Lower your standard, make every day achievable. 10min of imperfect work will always be better than the ideal 60-minute session that never happens.
- Go for incremental progress, and be kind to yourself. Reprogramming your unconscious, and managing your emotional self is by no means easy - Get support from the people around you, hire a coach if you need guidance - Build your own pace, don’t feel pressured to deliver results fast
Reference:
Gabriele Oettingen - Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation
James Clear - Atomic Habits












