CONSISTENCY GUIDE: ACTIONABLE ADVICE

CONSISTENCY GUIDE

Consistency is what is preached over and over in the Self Help world and for a good reason. Rome was not built in a day. It is one thing we all have heard. But a lot of people do have trouble with consistency and this is my guide for consistency.

WHO IS IT FOR:

It is a generalised guide which can be applied in any field of self improvement. This could be a bit difficult if it is on any activity which is an obligation but if it is not that it would help you. So if you need to develop any habit on a consistent basis, this would help.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE:

I always had a problem with consistency. I lived with ups and downs and was unable to follow through things for a long time. So this is what I have done to develop consistency which I have applied mostly on the work I do, my college classes, gym as well as the self improvement habit I indulge in like meditation, reading, even in skills like playing guitar, playing chess. So this guide would work in these cases as well as cases similar to that.

ACTIONABLE ADVICE:

1. Bare Minimum: Start with Bare minimum. Best way to calculate the bare minimum is TIME. So 1 minute of meditation, 1 minute of exercise, and then build from there. Obviously most people would be able to do 1 minute of work on anything.

2. Increase on a monthly basis: What I used to do was I do 10 tasks one day and then add 2 more tasks the other day and then get overwhelmed and just do 5 tasks or no tasks for the next 5 days. So if you are comfortable with doing 10 tasks for 1 minute each day, do that and then do 11 tasks next month and 12 tasks the month after that. So that you are able to do the given amount of tasks for the whole month

3. Increase time on a weekly basis: So you start with 1 minute, 10 tasks and you would increase the tasks next month, so what to do in the month of 10 tasks, you increase the time weekly. I used to increase on a daily basis but then again got overwhelmed, so Increase the time on a weekly basis, so if you do 1 minute of meditation for the whole week, increase it to two minutes of meditation the next week.

4. Add Variety: This is more applicable for things like Working out and Books where you should add variety to keep your interest in. I change my workout every 6 weeks, you can also change every 4 weeks. In terms of books, nowadays I read 60 books but I read 6 books and 10 pages for each book. This variety keeps my interest in the things.

5. Aim at improvement not 100%: don’t aim for 100% success rate, nobody has that. Aim at improving the amount of tasks, time of tasks over weeks and months and not aim at having 100% success rate as that is not the thing you would be able to be consistent at as stuff happens which would spoil that streak so aim at getting better not being perfect.

SUMMARY:

Do bare minimum things for bare minimum time and increase time on a weekly basis and add tasks on a monthly basis, add variety in the places where you can add and not aim at being 100% perfect but at improving.

I hope this would be able to help you be more consistent as it has helped me. If you have any problem with your life, tell me in the comments and I will make a guide about it if I have solutions to your problem. If you have any review regarding the way I write, tell me in the comments.