Are you using consistency against yourself?
Oct 16, 2022Are you using your lack of consistency as the reason you’re not reaching your goals?
“If only I could be more consistent,” you might say to yourself, wistfully.
So many of us hold consistency out in front of us as a yardstick --- and we measure ourselves against it.
Which isn’t much different than holding motivation or willpower out in front us.
Somehow -- if we could just have that -- we’d also have the weight loss or fitness level or any other goal we want.
However, what we don’t acknowledge is that consistency is a muscle.
It’s built over time.
If you want to build some muscle, will you begin by lifting 30-pound dumbbells tomorrow?
Or would you start with 3, 5 or 10-pound weights and build up from there?
The same is true of habit change.
Want to move more consistently?
What do you know you are capable of and can do easily this week?
Start from what you can do and then level up -- each week or each month as it starts to feel easy.
Yep -- that might mean you start with a 10-minute walk three times a week.
When that gets easy, add to it.
Listen, we’ve all had the experience of taking the 60-minute sweat-till-you-drop workout three times a week.
And most of us didn’t keep doing it.
It wasn’t sustainable.
Results come from consistency.
Consistency comes from stair-stepping our way to new habits.
As a coach, I listen to what my clients want and help them design a doable, sustainable way of getting there.
It’s what worked for me to shed 60 pounds and keep them off.
Set up a free 45-minute consultation session with me so that we can see if we’re a good fit to work together.
