How To Stay Consistent
As someone who has released a new podcast episode every week day for over 6 years, I know a thing or two about being consistent. And not only am I familiar with the benefits of being consistent (I’ve managed to grow a significant audience and the podcast has amassed over 20 million downloads) but how to stay consistent over the long term.
Truthfully, what I’ve found to work for me is probably different than what you might expect. And it works in every area of my personal and professional life.
Consistency is often closely correlated with being self-disciplined. When you’re self-disciplined it means that you follow through on doing what you said you were going to do. But discipline isn’t just about using will-power to force yourself into action when you don’t feel like it… It’s a result of the design of your environment.
- You stay consistent in going to the gym because you have a gym buddy that’s depending on you to show up, which leverages accountability.
- You stay consistent at work by setting up app limits to keep you off social media, by closing down messaging and email windows when it’s time to focus on a specific task, and by telling a coworker that you’re going to have something done by a certain time.
- You stay consistent with a good diet by having a coach that makes you report what you ate every single day.
- You consistently wake up early in the morning because you set up your phone to charge overnight across the room, so that when the alarm goes off in the morning, you need to physically get out of bed to turn it off.
In all these cases, the consistency comes as a byproduct of the environment around you and not your own will. Making your environment conducive to your success is the single biggest hack in being more consistent in life. Rather than trying to pull ‘positive action taking power’ from your own efforts, you can let your environment do a lot of that work for you.
Now as it relates to designing your environment for success, so that you can be consistent in taking positive action toward your goals and ambitions, it might be challenging knowing where to start. That’s why I’ve created a resource that teaches you about the 9 Super Habits. The most important, effective, highest-leverage things you can do to get consistent in the major areas of your life. And not only that, but I teach you a step-by-step process to implement all of these Super Habits in a way that takes less than 15 minutes a day!
It’s the ‘smarter not harder’ approach to being the best, healthiest, most focused, and most disciplined, most consistent version of yourself.
