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