Speaker 1: Get Ar'm Sam Wood and this is your motivational moment
Speaker 1: for this week. Let's talk about how to hack your consistency. Recently,
Speaker 1: I've been having lots of chats with lots of people,
Speaker 1: and the only thing that they are consistent with is
Speaker 1: being inconsistent. I'm being a bit of a smart ass,
Speaker 1: but it's sort of true. They are great at being
Speaker 1: inconsistent that any form of consistency does not last. And
Speaker 1: what I've noticed is it's because they shoot too high.
Speaker 1: They go, I can't be consistent with And it's because
Speaker 1: they try to do a sixty minute workout six days
Speaker 1: a week or eight twenty one perfect meals. I can't
Speaker 1: be consistent. They're shooting way too high. They're almost setting
Speaker 1: themselves up to fail. I see consistency as a muscle,
Speaker 1: and you've got to train it, and you've got to
Speaker 1: start with the two kilo dumbbells. You've got to start small,
Speaker 1: almost to prove to yourself mentally and physically that you
Speaker 1: can be consistent. You can create a habit. Now. I
Speaker 1: remember we had a guest on the podcast last year
Speaker 1: and they said, do three things. Get up, make your bed,
Speaker 1: move your body, have a big glass of water, so
Speaker 1: let's take move your body even out of it. But
Speaker 1: I love those other two. I now make my bed.
Speaker 1: I was i'd sort of give it a bit of
Speaker 1: a straighten up, but I now make my bed, and
Speaker 1: Willow and Charlie make their beds. So we have a
Speaker 1: bit of a thing at home where says we'll get
Speaker 1: up at five point thirty five forty five in the morning.
Speaker 1: She trains in our gym in the garage, and I'm
Speaker 1: then there for when Harper, will and Charlie wake up.
Speaker 1: And so I said it will Ow and Charlie by
Speaker 1: the time Mom comes down from a workout, I want
Speaker 1: you in your school uniform and I want your beds made.
Speaker 1: And it's not a perfect job, but it's a feeling
Speaker 1: of acomplishment. They feel like they have achieved something. And
Speaker 1: that's what making your bed is the first thing you
Speaker 1: do in the day really does. It's a feeling of achievement.
Speaker 1: It's that feeling of consistent achievement. It takes thirty seconds,
Speaker 1: the same as having a big glass of water. It
Speaker 1: takes fifteen seconds. It's so easy to do. There's no
Speaker 1: reason it cannot happen, but it works. You are starting
Speaker 1: to prove to yourself that you can form a habit.
Speaker 1: And what's a habit something done consistently. And I guess
Speaker 1: the important thing is because you might be listening and going, well,
Speaker 1: that's all well, in good team, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm making my bed each day
Speaker 1: is going to help me with my ten kilo as
Speaker 1: a weight loss, or achieve my next career goal or
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. It's about the practice. It's more
Speaker 1: about what that consistent behavior represents. You have shown yourself,
Speaker 1: you have shown others that you can do something instantly,
Speaker 1: and it will build. That will be the foundation of
Speaker 1: how you start to do things. You will look at
Speaker 1: each micro task like making your bed in that way,
Speaker 1: and before you know it, there'll be fifteen, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five micro tasks every single day that you do autonomously,
Speaker 1: because that's where we want to get to. I've used
Speaker 1: this analogy before, but it's my favorite analogy. I do
Speaker 1: not think about dental hygiene when I clean my teeth.
Speaker 1: I just clean my teeth. I clean them in the morning,
Speaker 1: I clean them at night. There is never a conscious
Speaker 1: thought about why I'm doing it. It just gets done
Speaker 1: and guess what. Therefore, it's consistent three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five days a year. If you can get a myriad
Speaker 1: of these little micro clean your teeth type activities to
Speaker 1: become habits that are done consistently, those little things can
Speaker 1: add up to big, big results. So if we want
Speaker 1: big results, where do we start? We start with one
Speaker 1: or two things. So that is your listener to task
Speaker 1: for this week. One thing that you can choose that
Speaker 1: you're not doing at the moment, or if you do
Speaker 1: it, it's very sporadic. It might be once a week, once
Speaker 1: a month, once in a blue moon. One thing that
Speaker 1: from now on you are going to do every day
Speaker 1: and make it a morning thing. Let's not let life
Speaker 1: or distractions or excuses get in the way. Let's do
Speaker 1: something in the first thirty minutes from when our eyes wake.
Speaker 1: One thing might be I'm going to go outside and
Speaker 1: get some daylight. I'm going to have a big glass
Speaker 1: of water, I'm going to stretch, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: And I must do this thing before looking at my phone,
Speaker 1: because that is where derailment often begins. So you're going
Speaker 1: to start one consistent positive of behavior before looking at
Speaker 1: your phone, and you can do it every single day
Speaker 1: for the next seven days, and that she listened to
Speaker 1: us for this week