WEBVTT - MOTIVATIONAL MOMENT: How to hack your consistency 🥇

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<v Speaker 1>Get Ar'm Sam Wood and this is your motivational moment

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<v Speaker 1>for this week. Let's talk about how to hack your consistency. Recently,

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<v Speaker 1>I've been having lots of chats with lots of people,

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<v Speaker 1>and the only thing that they are consistent with is

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<v Speaker 1>being inconsistent. I'm being a bit of a smart ass,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's sort of true. They are great at being

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<v Speaker 1>inconsistent that any form of consistency does not last. And

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<v Speaker 1>what I've noticed is it's because they shoot too high.

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<v Speaker 1>They go, I can't be consistent with And it's because

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<v Speaker 1>they try to do a sixty minute workout six days

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<v Speaker 1>a week or eight twenty one perfect meals. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>be consistent. They're shooting way too high. They're almost setting

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<v Speaker 1>themselves up to fail. I see consistency as a muscle,

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<v Speaker 1>and you've got to train it, and you've got to

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<v Speaker 1>start with the two kilo dumbbells. You've got to start small,

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<v Speaker 1>almost to prove to yourself mentally and physically that you

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<v Speaker 1>can be consistent. You can create a habit. Now. I

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<v Speaker 1>remember we had a guest on the podcast last year

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<v Speaker 1>and they said, do three things. Get up, make your bed,

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<v Speaker 1>move your body, have a big glass of water, so

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<v Speaker 1>let's take move your body even out of it. But

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<v Speaker 1>I love those other two. I now make my bed.

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<v Speaker 1>I was i'd sort of give it a bit of

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<v Speaker 1>a straighten up, but I now make my bed, and

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<v Speaker 1>Willow and Charlie make their beds. So we have a

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<v Speaker 1>bit of a thing at home where says we'll get

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<v Speaker 1>up at five point thirty five forty five in the morning.

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<v Speaker 1>She trains in our gym in the garage, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>then there for when Harper, will and Charlie wake up.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I said it will Ow and Charlie by

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<v Speaker 1>the time Mom comes down from a workout, I want

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<v Speaker 1>you in your school uniform and I want your beds made.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's not a perfect job, but it's a feeling

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<v Speaker 1>of acomplishment. They feel like they have achieved something. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's what making your bed is the first thing you

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<v Speaker 1>do in the day really does. It's a feeling of achievement.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that feeling of consistent achievement. It takes thirty seconds,

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<v Speaker 1>the same as having a big glass of water. It

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<v Speaker 1>takes fifteen seconds. It's so easy to do. There's no

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<v Speaker 1>reason it cannot happen, but it works. You are starting

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<v Speaker 1>to prove to yourself that you can form a habit.

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<v Speaker 1>And what's a habit something done consistently. And I guess

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<v Speaker 1>the important thing is because you might be listening and going, well,

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<v Speaker 1>that's all well, in good team, but I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how I'm making my bed each day

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<v Speaker 1>is going to help me with my ten kilo as

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<v Speaker 1>a weight loss, or achieve my next career goal or

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it might be. It's about the practice. It's more

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<v Speaker 1>about what that consistent behavior represents. You have shown yourself,

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<v Speaker 1>you have shown others that you can do something instantly,

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<v Speaker 1>and it will build. That will be the foundation of

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<v Speaker 1>how you start to do things. You will look at

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<v Speaker 1>each micro task like making your bed in that way,

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<v Speaker 1>and before you know it, there'll be fifteen, twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 1>five micro tasks every single day that you do autonomously,

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<v Speaker 1>because that's where we want to get to. I've used

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<v Speaker 1>this analogy before, but it's my favorite analogy. I do

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<v Speaker 1>not think about dental hygiene when I clean my teeth.

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<v Speaker 1>I just clean my teeth. I clean them in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>I clean them at night. There is never a conscious

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<v Speaker 1>thought about why I'm doing it. It just gets done

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<v Speaker 1>and guess what. Therefore, it's consistent three hundred and sixty

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<v Speaker 1>five days a year. If you can get a myriad

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<v Speaker 1>of these little micro clean your teeth type activities to

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<v Speaker 1>become habits that are done consistently, those little things can

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<v Speaker 1>add up to big, big results. So if we want

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<v Speaker 1>big results, where do we start? We start with one

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<v Speaker 1>or two things. So that is your listener to task

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<v Speaker 1>for this week. One thing that you can choose that

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<v Speaker 1>you're not doing at the moment, or if you do

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<v Speaker 1>it, it's very sporadic. It might be once a week, once

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<v Speaker 1>a month, once in a blue moon. One thing that

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<v Speaker 1>from now on you are going to do every day

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<v Speaker 1>and make it a morning thing. Let's not let life

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<v Speaker 1>or distractions or excuses get in the way. Let's do

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<v Speaker 1>something in the first thirty minutes from when our eyes wake.

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<v Speaker 1>One thing might be I'm going to go outside and

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<v Speaker 1>get some daylight. I'm going to have a big glass

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<v Speaker 1>of water, I'm going to stretch, whatever it might be.

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<v Speaker 1>And I must do this thing before looking at my phone,

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<v Speaker 1>because that is where derailment often begins. So you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to start one consistent positive of behavior before looking at

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<v Speaker 1>your phone, and you can do it every single day

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<v Speaker 1>for the next seven days, and that she listened to

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<v Speaker 1>us for this week