How to stay consistent?

Advice, stories, tools and tricks to help you get ahead and to stay consistent with your work always. Because only thing that matters is you showing up.

5/8/20243 min read

How to Stay Consistent: Techniques to Build Lasting Habits and Discipline

1. Maintain your Discipline with Consistency.

No motivation. Just sticking to your habits and routines you have planned for yourself to do. No matter how you feel that day, that moment - just do the work you set for yourself. Otherwise you'll end up asking yourself rest of the day why I just didn't do the stuff I planned.

Consistency is the key to achieving long-term success in any area of life, whether it’s personal development, career advancement, fitness goals, or maintaining healthy relationships. Staying consistent can be challenging, especially when motivation wanes, and life throws unexpected obstacles in your path. In this article, we will explore practical techniques to help you stay consistent, keep track of your habits and routines, and maintain discipline even when it feels difficult.

2. Why is Consistency Important?

Consistency is the foundation of progress. Small, repeated actions over time lead to significant results. Without consistency, even the best intentions and most detailed plans can fall apart. Here’s why staying consistent matters:

  1. Develops Discipline: Practicing consistently makes you disciplined, helps you build self-discipline. Which is essential for achieving long-term progress.

  2. Builds Self-Confidence: When you consistently meet your commitments, you build trust in yourself and your abilities. You feel better about yourself because you have 'proof' of your discipline.

  3. Creates Sustainable Habits: Repetitions turns actions into habits, making them second nature over time.

  4. Makes Huge difference long-term: If you keep working and showing up when you planned, you will get ahead of most people just by doing that. Just show up the days you planned for you.

3. Techniques to Stay Consistent:

  1. You need to make a list of your habits, routines, and tasks that you will track throught the month. I suggest make 3 most important list of everything (habits, routines, tasks) that will help you achieve your goal.

  2. Print out calendar for the month you are currently in and stick it to your refrigerator = this is your habit/routine/task tracker for everyday. Circle GREEN days you succeded or circle RED days you've failed. This will get you understand how progress really looks like, or failure - depends on you.

  3. So, you've got yourself a list of everything you will do, and printed calendar-tracker on your refrigerator. Next thing you will do, is to make a list of bad habits, behaviours, places that are distracting you from your goal.
    After that you will write one rule for each habit/behavior/place = on how to reduce or avoid it in order to maximize your progress bar on that calendar-tracker.

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Conclusion:

I just want to say, staying consistent isn't easy. But I've made this simple-easy so you can finally start applying it. I can tell it is so easy to get off track and fall to your old bad behaviors and habits. It is on you to constantly check with yourself what your goals are and why are you doing them.

You are resposnsible for yourself. Do understand that and this will go a lot smoother. When you get down, dont stay too long down. Pick it up and restart the process. We call it attempts not failures.

Here are a guidelines on how to stay consistent with whatever your goal or dream is. It can apply to any area of your life you want to improve.
When you get to Techinques I would advise you to grab a pen and paper and take some time to write out the stuff that chapter is talking about. Let's get started.

white printer paper with black pen
white printer paper with black pen

Stay consistent always