How to Be Consistent

Consistency is a great characteristic to implement and build in the life. The key to consistency is achieving and setting specific goals. Begin by determining how you need to be more consistent in your lifecycle, and aim for these tiny goals. Over time, as you become more consistent, keeping yourself accountable and motivated. This might need certain change in thinking so that you stay productive and optimistic throughout the procedure.

Create realistic or specific goals.

It’s tough to be consistent if you don’t having a good idea of what you want to do. When start your new path, creating easier, simple goals with measurable specific results.

• Begin by defining what consistency signify to you. Do you want to be consistent about your exercise habits? Are you aiming for a high quality of work? Do you need to be more reliable and available in your relationships?
• Once you’ve identified your end aim, come up with tiny steps to reach it. For example, if you need to become more physically fit, you may set the aim to exercise for 5 days out of the week or to signing up for a class.
• Be specific. Instead of saying “I’m going to consistently appreciate my significant other,” you might say “I’m going to thank my significant other when they washing the dishes, making dinner, or supporting out around the house.

Create a schedule for yourself.

It can be easier to pile on promises and tasks, but a schedule, calendar, and planner will keep you on track. A schedule will support you plan your day so that you do everything done on time. It will also support you understand what commitments you do and do not have time for.

• Apply a desk calendar or a paper planner. Alternatively, download a schedule app to your phone, like Outlook or Google Calendar.
• Block off realistic amounts of time for every task. If you’re uncertain how long a task will take, serve yourself extra time to complete it.
• For huge goals, like losing weight or writing a book, set daily, small tasks that you do to work towards this aim. For example, you might set a daily word count to attain or planning specific meals to eat each day.
• Don’t forget to plan in breaks as well! Don’t schedule anything else for that time or day.

Place reminders around your belongings, home, and workspace.

Sometimes, it is easier to forget our new habits, goals, promises or commitments, especially when we making them to ourselves. To reminding yourself throughout the day, putting messages to yourself in visible zones.

• Pen up your goals on post-it notes and placing them on your mirror, refrigerator, computer, planner and car dashboard.
• Slip a piece of paper with your aims into your purse, wallet, and desk drawer.
• If you try implement a daily practice, putting a reminder to your mobile. Setting an alarm or apply a reminder app to alert you when you want to do it.

Making promises only if you do keep them.

Consistency often includes making commitments and keep them. It is easier to get overwhelmed, however, if you make too numerous promises. If you think a request might be tough to do, say no.

• For example, if you tell your significant other that you do handle half of the chores, make certain that you have time after work to actually do them.
• In some scenerios, you might be able to negotiate a promise that you would be able to keep. For example, if someone asking you to support them move, you can say, “Well, I can’t make it before 3 PM, but I can swing by after. Does that work?”
• This includes make promises to yourself. If you understand it is unrealistic for you to pen up 10 pages a day for your new book, promising yourself that you’ll just pen up at least a tiny bit each day.

Rewarding yourself when you get something done.

If you do fulfill your aims, serve yourself a reward. Even tiny aims deserve small rewards to support keep you inspired throughout the process.

• For example, if you managing to complete your work by 5 pm every day for a week, taking an evening off. Go see a movie or treating yourself to a special evening brunch.
• If you train for a marathon and you’ve managed to hit your regular exercise goals, signing up for a 5k to offer you a sense of your success.
• If you’ve managed to improvised your relationships by being more consistent, your friendships might be the reward. If you’re proud of yourself, taking your buds out or hosting a dinner.

Keep going if you make a error. 

Even the most well-organized and consistent humans slip up sometimes. Planning for potential failure, and don’t beating yourself up if you do a error along the way.

• Just as you had to cancel an appointment, breaking a promise, or passing a deadline doesn’t signify you’re not consistent. Sometimes, despite our good planning, external factors do get in the way.
• Planning for your failures and setbacks. If a literary agent rejects the manuscript, figuring out where next to send it, or looking it over to see what may be improved.
• Consistency do not equal perfection. If you miss a day at the yoga or failed to read your kid a book at night, encouraging yourself to begin again the very next day.